American History World War II Test - '24 - '25 Study Guide

Island Hopping is a strategy used in which context?

• Military strategy during World War II

• A method of vacationing on islands

• A technique in marine biology

• A style of dance

Which agency was created to help control inflation in the U.S. during World War II?

• Office of Price Administration

• The War Production Board

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

What legal means did the US government / President Roosevelt use to issue the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II?

• Did the Electric Slide

• Issued an executive order 9066

• Held Congress hostage until they passed a law

How did World War II change the employment situation for women?

• Women did not work during World War II

• More women were able to find jobs in manufacturing and other fields not traditionally considered to be women’s work.

• Women were victimized by widespread domestic violence and were unable to work

All of the following were leaders of totalitarian governments in the 1930’s and 1940’s except:

• Joseph Stalin

• Adolf Hitler

• Benito Mussolini

• Nikita Khrushchev

Following the Battle of Bataan and the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, who went on the Bataan Death March, and why?

• Japanese soldiers, because they refused to surrender

• Allied prisoners of war, because the Japanese forced them to

• German soldiers, because they were forced off their land by the Japanese invasion

D-Day was:

• The day World War II ended

• The day the United States declared war on Japan

• The day Allied forces invaded Normandy

• The day Germany invaded Poland

How could Americans do their part at home to help support the war effort?

• Plant Victory Gardens

• Ration the use of meat, oils and other products

• Buy Bonds

• All of the above

What does the term “genocide” mean?

• Deliberate extermination of a specific group of people.

• Celebrating the culture of a certain group.

• Giving money and land to disenfranchised groups.

The United States entered World War II as a direct result of what?

• The attack on Pearl Harbor.

• The invasion and division of Poland.

• Attacks on U.S. ships in the Atlantic.