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WorksheetsCrash Course US History WW II Part 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What did the Treaty of Versailles do?
Forced the US military to remain in Europe
Remade the map of Europe
Had Britain pay Germany for war damages
Allowed France to dominate European politics
Which organization was a failure because the United States did not join?
The League of Nations
The United Nations
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Rome-Berlin Axis
Two events that shaped US foreign policy in the 1930s are the Great Depression and
World War I
Prohibition
Imperialism
Incorporation
US foreign policy after WW I can generally be described as
aggressive
interventionist
imperialist
isolationist
Which area of the world was affected by the Good Neighbor Policy?
Europe
Latin America
Asia
Africa
What was the purpose of the Neutrality Acts?
To ban trade with countries that had tariffs
To reduce the number of warships a country had
To ban sales of arms to warring nations
To prevent the US from joining the League of Nations
What did the "cash and carry" policy allow?
British wounded to be treated in US hospitals if their government paid the bill
Companies to do business with the Axis nations
The transportation of troops into war zones
The US to sell weapons to Britain for money
Why did the US enter WW II after December 7, 1941?
Germany began sinking passenger boats
France surrendered and Germany threatened to bomb NYC
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
The Italian ambassador promised to aid Mexico against the US
Where did the largest surrender of American forces take place?
Bataan
Hawaii
Alaska
El Alamein
What was the result of the Battle of the Coral Sea?
Denmark was liberated from German rule
The Axis forces lost control of Africa
Australia was protected from a Japanese invasion
Filipinos were slaughtered by the Japanese
The US strategy in the Pacific was called:
lend-lease
island hopping
seek-and-destroy
the roundup
Which battle took place halfway between Hawaii and Japan?
Guadalcanal
Leyte
Midway
Perth
In what area did the US first try to stop Nazi forces?
Normandy
Africa
Italy
The Philippines
Besides the United States, which other countries joined in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day?
Russia and Austria
Norway and Denmark
France and Mexico
Britain and Canada
Which country's forces actually captured Berlin?
The Soviet Union
Great Britain
Denmark
The United States
What caused the Japanese to surrender in August 1945?
The emperor died
Japanese citizens revolted
The dropping of atomic bombs
Russia invaded the islands
The group that developed atomic weapons in the US was called the:
Atomic Force
Nuclear Mafia
Secret Six
Manhattan Project
The number of instantaneous deaths because of the bombing of Hiroshima was
10,000
70,000
100,000
1 million
Why did Truman's advisers encourage him to use atomic weapons against Japan?
Because Japan had used atomic weapons against the United States
The Japanese navy was preparing to land troops in California
Russia was preparing its own use of atomic weapons
To prevent American deaths from an invasion of Japan
How did the World War II influence the Cold War?
Nations did not like the idea of appeasement
There was a constant threat of nuclear war
Fascist regimes were outlawed
Nations were less likely to use violent warfare
