World War II Test Review

What did the government establish in order to limit the consumption of critical and scarce resources? It was equally supplied to all Americans.

• Ration System

• Tax Increase

• Public Awareness Campaign

• Resource Allocation Program

There was a public belief that the ration system was a ___ system.

• fair

• unfair

• inefficient

• corrupt

Rationing was used so that ____ had enough supplies when they were out fighting during wartime.

• troops

• civilians

• politicians

• merchants

Who was determined to supply the US military with whatever they needed in order to beat the axis powers during WWII?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Winston Churchill

• Joseph Stalin

• Adolf Hitler

A major result of WWII is that many people went back to what? (high unemployment rates were reduced)

• work

• school

• farming

• unemployment

After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, the US government sent this group of people to live in internment camps.

• Japanese-Americans

• German-Americans

• Italian-Americans

• Chinese-Americans

What US Supreme Court case held up this order?

• Korematsu v. US

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Miranda v. Arizona

During WWII, this group of people were recruited to work in manufacturing jobs.

• women

• children

• elderly

• men

Some WWII military communications were translated into this language because Native Americans were being recruited into the Marine Corps. It was a military tactic to hide communications from the enemy.

• Navajo

• Cherokee

• Sioux

• Apache

The US foreign policy strategy of preventing the expansion of Soviet influence and communism, primarily through economic and military aid to countries resisting communist takeover, and avoiding direct confrontation with the Soviet Union.

• containment

• detente

• isolationism

• appeasement