WII and Cold War Test

Base your answer to the question on the poster below and on your knowledge of social studies.

• register for the draft

• provide financial support for the war

• support the internment of Italian Americans

• defeat congressmen who voted to go to war

Base your answer to the question on the posters below and on your knowledge of social studies. These World War II posters encouraged Americans to

• demand higher wages

• enlist in the armed services

• purchase new automobiles

• support home-front war efforts

During World War II, the federal government was accused of violating constitutional rights by

• signing the Yalta Agreement

• implementing a draft to expand the armed forces

• relocating Japanese Americans to internment camps

• initiating the secret Manhattan Project

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan….” —President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, December 8, 1941 In this statement, President Roosevelt was addressing Congress about the

• sinking of merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean

• D-Day invasion of France

• bombing of Pearl Harbor

• air raids on the Panama Canal

President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan was based on the belief that the action would

• save American lives by avoiding an invasion of Japan

• force Germany and Italy to lay down their arms

• help create a military alliance with China

• persuade the Soviet Union to surrender

Base your answer to the question on the photograph and poster below and on your knowledge of social studies.

• support the goal of equal pay for equal work

• discourage women from taking jobs from men with families

• recruit women to fill wartime manufacturing jobs

• encourage women to accept combat roles

The relocation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast during World War II occurred because

• most of them were not citizens of the United States

• they refused to serve in the United States military

• they were needed to work at inland defense industries

• military authorities considered them a threat to national security

During World War II, the Allies fought against the Axis Powers. Drag each country into the correct box below to identify with which side they fought.

• Japan

• France

• China

• United Kingdom

• Soviet Union

The Nuremberg War Crimes trials established the international legal precedent that

• the United States will give refugee status to all victims of war

• individuals who violate human rights can be held responsible for their actions

• invaders must pay to rebuild the areas they destroyed

• territory lost in war cannot be regained

The Manhattan Project led by Robert Oppenheimer was part of the World War II effort to

• develop the atomic bomb

• supply the Allies with more fighter planes

• ban the use of chemical and biological warfare

• coordinate troop movements between New York and Europe