World War 2

The immediate event that started World War 2 was

• Britain and France's policy of appeasement

• The Treaty of Munich allowing Hitler to occupy part of Czechoslovakia

• Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939.

Although officially neutral, the United States increasingly helped Britain through actions like

• The Neutrality Acts

• The Lend Lease Act

• The America First Committee

• Enforcement of the Embargo.

After aligning itself with Germany and Italy, the island country of Japan sought to

• Make peace with China

• Invade Manchuria

• Control Europe

• Control Asia and the Pacific

"A date which will live in infamy" was President Roosevelt's description of

• The invasion of Poland by Germany

• Bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan

• Surrender of France after Paris was conquered

• The Battle of Britain

The main reason that the Soviet Union became an ally of Britain and the United States was because the Soviet Untion

• Was Fascist and opposed Communism

• Mistrusted Japan

• Needed the soldiers of Britain and the United States

• Was attacked by Germany in spite of their 10 year non-aggression pact.

President Truman's main decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan was influenced by all of the following reasons except the

• Lend Lease Acts

• Fear that an invasion of Japan would mean death for thousands of American Soldiers

• Refusal of Japan to surrender in spite of their losses.

• Thousands of American lives already lost in wars.

Thousands of African American soldiers served bravely in a WWII flight crew known as the

• Nisei Airmen

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Harlem Flyers

Despite removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast,

• Japanese or Nisei served honorably in segregated units.

• Japanese Americans were still disloyal to the US Government

• Japanese were still allowed to emigrate to the US

• Japanese Business on the West coast prospered.

The Navajo code-talkers were instrumental in

• Breaking Germany's communication codes

• Breaking Japan's communication codes

• Creating a communication code that the Japanese could not break

• Creating a code that the Germans could not break.

Hitler's plan to eliminate all Jews from the countries that Germany controlled was called

• The Final Solution

• The Holocaust

• Kristallnacht

• Aryan Superiority