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WorksheetsUnit 4 Test: World War II & the Beginning of the Cold War
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 6hrs 50mins
What date do most historians use as the beginning of World War II?
September 2, 1945
September 1, 1939
August 6, 1945
December 7, 1941
June 22, 1940
The beginning of World War II in Europe coincides with Hitler’s invasion of ________.
France
Poland
Belgium
Britain
the Soviet Union
An undeclared war with Germany already began in the fall of 1941 when the U.S. destroyer, the __________, was sank by German submarines. After this event, FDR ordered the U.S. Navy to “shoot on sight” any German submarine or war craft.
Rueben James
Vicennes
Vestige
Greer
U.S.S. Hornet
In August 1941, FDR met with Churchill off the coast of Newfoundland and signed the _________, which was their agreement of how the war should end and what should happen in the post-war world.
Fourteen Points
Atlantic Charter
Casablanca Document
Potsdam Declaration
Nazi-Soviet Pact
What event officially brought the United States into World War II and ended virtually all isolationist attitude overnight?
The German invasion of Poland
The Fall of France
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
Hitler's Invasion of the Soviet Union
Which one of the following United States battleships has been left in Pearl Harbor and has a memorial constructed over top of it?
U.S.S. Oklahoma
U.S.S. Utah
U.S.S. Arizona
U.S.S. West Virginia
U.S.S. Nevada
The two primary commanders in the Pacific during World War II were ________ and ______?
Dwight Eisenhower and George C. Patton
Douglas MacArthur and Chester Nimitz
Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery
Charles de Gaulle and George C. Marshall
William Halsey and Mark Clark
The Battle of Coral Sea in 1942 marked the first important victory by the U.S. against Japan and it prevented the Japanese from taking ________?
China
Korea
Vietnam
Australia
Indonesia
The Battle of Midway in 1942 was one of the turning points of the war in the Pacific because, even though the U.S. suffered great losses, ___________?
the U.S. lost most of its Pacific Fleet to the Japanese
the U.S. sank four Japanese air craft carriers
the U.S. sank four German U-Boats
the USS Arizona was lost for good
the U.S. exposed German concentration camps in the Pacific
FDR had little choice when we entered the war on the side of the Allies. He could go it alone and conduct his own invasion across the English Channel or he could follow the British. What did he do?
He took the lead from Joseph Stalin and attacked across the English Channel
He took the lead from Hideki Tojo and attacked China
He took the lead from Adolf Hitler and attacked North Africa
He took the lead from George C. Patton and landed the 101st Airborne Division into the heart of Berlin
He took the lead from the Winston Churchill and attacked in North Africa
During World War II, the United States Army chief of staff was ________?
Douglas MacArthur
George Marshall
Omar Bradley
Dwight Eisenhower
George Patton
Beginning in 1942, the country that pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany was _________?
the Soviet Union
China
Great Britain
the United States
Canada
Churchill’s strategy for 1942 and 1943 was to attack the Nazis in _________ and chase them to Sicily and up the boot of Italy.
the Soviet Union
China
North Africa
England
Iran
All of the following were reasons why the United States was not eager to help or receive more Jewish immigrants into our country after we learned of Nazis atrocities against them EXCEPT:
Unemployment was high in the United States and many did not want to increase the likelihood of jobs being taken away from them.
Nazis enforced laws that made it illegal for people of Jewish ancestry to leave that country with more than five dollars of currency.
Many citizens of the U.S. believed that we should help our own people first, especially those still feeling the effects of the Great Depression.
Many Americans were Holocaust Deniers and did not believe that the Germans had the capability to set up concentration camps.
Many Americans were not aware that such circumstances existed. Although top Americans officials may have had knowledge of Nazis brutalities conducted against Jews, the average American was aware of no such thing.
During World War II, the first Axis country to be defeated was _______?
Germany
Spain
Austria
Japan
Italy
Because Churchill and FDR did not open up a second front any sooner than 1944, _______ was bitter and resentful toward them.
Tojo
Stalin
Mussolini
Franco
de Gaulle
Jewish refugees attempting to escape Europe on board the _________, was turned back by Latin American countries and by the United States.
Arizona
Missouri
St. Louis
Memphis
Oklahoma
Which one of the following is the reason why U.S. bombers did NOT target Nazi concentration camps from 1943 to 1945?
American officials were worried that the bombing of concentration camps might make matters worse than what they were. Many prisoners would die in the blasts and the Nazis could have taken their anger out on the prisoners as well.
By 1943 U.S. bombers could not yet direct pin-point bombing and chances are we would have missed the camps and caused more environmental destruction to the landscape than we needed to.
The U.S. had not penetrated into German territory by 1943. Allied bombers could not reach German targets until April 1945.
Allied bombers were dropping bombs at night. They could not be sure if they were even dropping bombs in the country of Germany.
U.S. bombing missions were more concerned about destroying Soviet advances into Germany because everyone knew that Germany was defeated by 1943.
The key to winning the war was winning _____________?
the largest amount of draftees for service
the control of the media and press for propaganda purposes
the contest for the most intelligent soldiers
the contest for the fastest planes and aircraft carriers
the industrial output of war materiel
Between 1939 and 1945, the federal budget of the United States _________?
was cut in half
doubled
tripled
rose five-fold
rose ten-fold
During World War II, the regional impact of government spending had the greatest effect in the _________ part of the United States?
Northeastern
Midwest
Northern
Eastern
Western
During World War II, the U.S. government used an image called “___________” to encourage the importance of women in the labor force, especially for industrial jobs.
“Soldiers without Guns”
"Susie, the Silent G.I.”
“Betty the Bomber”
“Rosie the Riveter”
“Annie the Assembler”
If the United States government increased its spending from 1941 to 1945, it also increased the amount of ___________?
prices for food and fuel
new states added to the Union
elderly in the country
babies born in the country
national debt
Which one of the following was a way that World War II strengthened the federal government, according to John Green?
The U.S. government took unprecedented control of the economy and even allowed big business to get even bigger by offering companies cost-plus contracts.
The U.S. government demanded that all citizens remain isolationist even after we declared war on the Axis Powers.
The U.S. government drafted more minorities than whites, and forced minority men to the battlefront before white servicemen were used.
The U.S. government conducted unprecedented surveillance on its citizens and relocated those who were against the war effort.
FDR used the war to stay in office by eliminating the quadrennial election during the 1940’s.
Because the government issued price controls, inflation in the United States during the course of World War II was ________?
relatively low
a more serious problem that it was during World War I
largely uncontrolled by the federal government
at its highest in the last year of the war
less a concern during the war than fears of a communist revolution in the U.S.
How did the struggle against Nazism help reshape the ways Americans thought about themselves, according to John Green?
Americans wanted to be just like the Nazis and projected their own prejudices on minority groups in the U.S., especially on Asian-Americans.
Americans wanted to be neutral about what the Nazis stood for, so race issues became non-existent during the war years.
Americans wanted to be more like the Soviets instead of the Nazis. As a result, membership in the Communist Party in the U.S. grew during the war years.
Americans wanted to be the antithesis of what the Nazis stood for. So, if the Nazis were going to base their ideology on race, Americans wanted to stand for tolerance, diversity and equality for all people.
Americans wanted to be like the Japanese more than the Nazis and the Soviets. This is why Americans were so reluctant to kill the Japanese in the Pacific.
With the help of __________, the U.S. government demanded that war factories receiving government contracts NOT discriminate against African Americans.
Marcus Garvey
W.E.B DuBois
Booker T. Washington
A. Phillip Randolph
Malcolm X
Integration of African Americans also had a boost from the United States military during World War II because the military _________?
used quotas to limit the number of black servicemen in the military
excluded blacks from combat duty
began to turn back its practices on racial segregation
allowed blacks into all branches of the military except in the U.S. Army
decreased the number of black servicemen to 200,000
The name “code talkers” is strongly associated with ________?
Issei Japanese-Americans who fought in the war on our side
German-Americans who fought in the war on our side
Navajo Indians who fought in the war on our side
Italian-Americans who fought in the war on our side
Nisei Japanese-Americans who fought in the war on the Japanese side
Why was the service of Asian Americans a glaring example of our failure to be adequately pluralistic, according to John Green?
Japanese-Americans did not commit any atrocities on any of its enemies, but yet American soldiers killed Japanese soldiers instead of taking them as prisoners of war.
Japanese-Americans suffered horrible racism and one of the worst violations of civil liberties in America’s history.
The Japanese could not threaten our western coast even if they wanted to do so. Their navy was so weak that Americans did not look on them as a major threat to our liberty.
The Japanese were more tolerant than Americans and they did not have a military or war-like tradition in their historical past.
Japanese-Americans had always been so welcome of American ideas and we needed their trade as a source of outlet for American goods.
The military strategy in the Pacific was aimed at __________?
an invasion of Japan as soon as the Allies could get the troops from Europe to help out
giving the Japanese Australia in hopes that they would not want any more land in the Pacific
leapfrogging from island to island and using the islands as bases for moving closer to the Philippines and Japan
dropping the atomic bomb on any island occupied by the Japanese
using German POWs to do the fighting for us in the Pacific
Violence against Mexican Americans in Los Angeles erupted over the issue of _________?
buying war bonds
paying taxes
"zoot" suits
re-locating to concentration camps
Issei or Nisei Japanese fighting in the war
What was the “Double V” campaign?
It was an effort to ensure victory over the Democrats in 1944 and victory over isolationists in America.
It was an effort to ensure victory over the isolationists and internationalists in Congress.
It was an effort to ensure victory over industrial production and the number of troops sent into battle.
It was an effort put forth by FDR to enlarge the number of justices sitting on the Supreme Court and to eliminate the presidential election during the war.
It was an effort put forth by African American leaders calling on all Americans to eliminate Hitler’s racism and racism at home.
In Korematsu v. the United States the Supreme Court said __________?
that the re-location of Japanese Americans was unconstitutional because German Americans or Italian Americans were not forced to sell their belongings and re-locate even though the U.S. was at war with them
that the re-location of Japanese Americans was constitutional because it was instituted out of military necessity
that the re-location of Japanese Americans was unconstitutional because the federal government can not impose martial law on just one particular region of the country
that the re-location was constitutional because it was based strictly on the race of a people
that re-location of Japanese-Americans could occur as long as German-Americans or Italian-Americans were re-located too
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan apologized to all Japanese Americans on behalf of the U.S. government and he signed legislation that authorized ___________?
Congress to give each German-American living survivor $10,000 for remaining loyal to the United States during WW II
Congress to give each Japanese-American survivor of the relocation centers $20,000
Congress to give FDR a posthumous Medal of Honor
Congress to give Dwight D. Eisenhower a posthumous Iron Cross
Congress to give each American Indian “code talker” who survived the war $30,000
How many Japanese-Americans were eventually deported or convicted for espionage or sabotage?
No one
44
82
95
135
What war atrocity was worse than Pearl Harbor, according to John Green on Crash Course U.S. History?
The Bataan Death March was more tragic than Pearl Harbor, according to Green.
The way the Nazis treated American POW’s in the concentration camps were more tragic, according to Green.
The saturation bombing of Tokyo and Dresden was more tragic than Pearl Harbor, according to Green.
The attitudes of isolationists after Pearl Harbor was more tragic than the event itself, according to Green.
The way FDR was willing to lead America into war was more tragic than Pearl Harbor, according to Green.
According to John Green, Americans’ ideas about foreign policy were shaped by two big events at the time. What were they?
According to Green, they were shaped by the Progressive tradition of the early twentieth century and the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
According to Green, they were shaped by the imperialism of the late 19th century and the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt, who re-made the office of the president.
According to Green, they were shaped by the Great Depression and World War I.
According to Green, they were shaped by George Washington’s Farewell Address and John Adams’ handling of the XYZ Affair.
According to Green, they were shaped by the Civil War and the Spanish-American War.
World War II is known as the “_______” because it brought full employment and economic prosperity that lasted into the 1950’s.
"Bad War"
"Intrepid War"
"Holy War"
"Good War"
"Miracle War"
One devastating atrocity that the United States committed was a firestorm of incendiary bombs dropped on civilians in the city of _________, Germany, that killed at least 135,000 people, mostly civilian.
Cologne
Hamburg
Frankfurt
Stuttgart
Dresden
The turning point of the war in Europe was D-Day, __________. The landing invasion took place on the Cherbourg Peninsula, in Normandy, France.
June 4, 1944
June 5, 1944
June 6, 1944
June 4, 1945
June 6, 1945
The Americans were in charge of _______ and _______ Beaches on D-Day.
Sword and Juno
Sword and Omaha
Gold and Juno
Utah and Gold
Omaha and Utah
The code name for the D-Day invasion was named Operation _________?
Mongoose
Torch
Overlord
Rolling Thunder
Moonfall
In _________ of 1944, Free French and U.S. forces liberated Paris, France.
July
August
September
October
December
Hitler’s last ditch effort to launch a massive German offensive in the Ardennes Forest in December 1944 has been called the _____________?
Battle of Guadalcanal
Battle of Tarawa
Battle of Sicily
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Monte Cassino
By May 1945, the Germans were ready to surrender. The day of formal surrender has been called, _________?
V-J Day
P-E Day
W-E Day
V-E Day
S-E Day
It was Admiral Chester _________ who was responsible for conducting the campaign in the central Pacific and Douglas MacArthur who was responsible for conducting the campaign in the southwestern Pacific.
Kimmel
Short
Arthur
Nimitz
Bradley
In China during World War II, the U.S. supported the nationalist, __________. However, he did not appreciate our help and was more busy trying to fight the communists there.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mao Zedong
Lee Teng-hui
Chiang Ching-kuo
Huang Fu
In _________, Douglas MacArthur and his U.S. forces were able to land on the Philippines. He did return, as promised in 1942 when he left.
July 1943
December 1943
September 1945
October 1944
January 1944
The largest naval battle in the history of warfare took place in October 1944 in the Philippines when Douglas MacArthur “returned” to that place. It was the Battle of _______?
New Guinea
Manila
Cebu
Luzon
Leyte Gulf
One of the costliest battles for the U.S. Marine Corp was a tiny volcanic island about 700 miles from Japan. It is the island where the iconic photograph of Marines lifting a U.S. flag on top of Mount Suribachi took place. This tiny island was the island of _______?
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Saipan
Guadalcanal
Tinian
By June of 1945 the tactics of the Japanese were those of desperation. They launched attacks at night, used civilians as shields, and conducted kamikaze attacks on American troops. Casualties were high on both sides but the Japanese lost 100,000 troops before the Americans took the island. This was the Battle of ________?
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Saipan
Guadalcanal
Tinian
Beginning in March 1945, the Americans were able to drop napalm and incendiary bombs on _________, itself. The bombing produced a firestorm in that city and killed anywhere between 80,000 and 100,000 civilians.
Nagoya
Osaka
Tokyo
Okayama
Yamaguchi
In July of 1945 Harry Truman learned at the Potsdam Conference that we had successfully detonated an atomic bomb. The secret project to develop “the bomb” was called the ________?
Argus Project
Kempster Project
Dr. Freeselove Project
Manhattan Project
Aquiline Project
At Potsdam in July of 1945, Truman issued the ________ and told the Japanese Empire “to surrender or face prompt and utter destruction.”
Atlantic Charter
Fourteen Points
Proclamation of Obliteration
Containment Statement
Potsdam Declaration
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945. The first one was a uranium bomb nicknamed _________ and dropped on Hiroshima.
"Little Boy"
"Little Bo Peep"
"Little Dog"
"Little Glider"
"Little Bottle Rocket"
The second atomic bomb was dropped on _________ on August 9, 1945. It was a plutonium bomb nicknamed, “Fat Man.”
Tokyo
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Osaka
Yamaguchi
The formal surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945 was nicknamed, _______?
V-E Day
U-J Day
WJW Day
V-J Day
UVE Day
The man responsible for achieving the first controlled fission chain reaction was _______?
Albert Einstein
Leslie Groves
Enrico Fermi
Chester Nimitz
J. Robert Oppenheimer
What do Revisionist historians claim about Truman and the dropping of two atomic bombs?
Many Revisionist historians claim that dropping atomic bombs was necessary because Japan would not have surrendered unless we did something drastic.
Many Revisionist historians claim that the U.S. didn’t have to drop any atomic bombs because Japan was close to surrendering and dropping a second bomb was totally unnecessary.
Many Revisionist historians claim that Truman actually prolonged the war by dropping the atomic bombs and brought on the Cold War.
Many Revisionist historians claim that the U.S. should have dropped an atomic bomb on Germany too.
Many Revisionist historians claim that Truman gave the secrets of the bomb to the Soviets so that they could unleash them against the Japanese too.
The two super powers that existed after World War II were _____ and ____?
China and the Soviet Union
Japan and the United States
Germany and the Soviet Union
the United States and the Soviet Union
China and the United States
The cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War was to stop the spread of communism. It was called ________?
Truman Doctrine
McCarthyism
Marshall Plan
Containment
Brinkmanship
Most historians use the meeting of the “Big Three” at the __________ Conference as the beginning of the Cold War.
Casablanca
Potsdam
Tehran
Newfoundland
Yalta
Which one of the following defines what a “cold” war is?
A state of acquiring overseas territories to build-up a country’s empire and to exploit the people and resources of those territories for a country’s benefit
A rise in the GNP of several countries who are working toward the elimination of trade barriers
A state of continuous political, economic and psychological tension, using threats, propaganda, intimidation, and a build-up of arms
An official declaration of war against an enemy and fighting takes place in battles confronting the enemy
An official commitment from one country to defend another country if anyone of those countries agreeing to an alliance is attacked
The basis of American foreign policy was put forth by ____________ in his 1946 “Long Telegram.” In the report, he claimed that the Soviets basically act out of fear and insecurity.
John Foster Dulles
Richard Nixon
Joseph McCarthy
J. Edgar Hoover
George Kennan
To achieve U.S. goals in Western Europe, Truman was successful in getting Congress to pass a massive European recovery program, called the _____________. It helped rebuild countries like West Germany through economic recovery.
Truman Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
National Defense Education Act
National Security Act
Marshall Plan
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Getting Congress to appropriate $400 million to Greece and Turkey so communist guerillas would be eliminated there.
Getting Congress to appropriate $400 million to Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates so that any communist leanings toward the Soviet Union might be eliminated there.
Getting Congress to appropriate $800 million to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Belize, Panama and Honduras, so that any communist leanings toward the Soviet Union might be eliminated there.
Getting Congress to appropriate $800 million to Canada and Mexico so communist guerillas would be eliminated at our borders.
Getting Congress to appropriate $400 million to the countries of the Middle East who might seek an alliance with the Soviet Union.
What was the significance of NSC Report # 68?
It called for a major expansion of American military power to stop the spread of communism around the world.
It set up the European Union and allowed the Soviet Union to join whenever it abandoned communism.
It created the National Security Council and established the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
It created the Atomic Energy Commission and put the authority to regulate the use of atomic energy and weaponry under its control.
It created a propaganda program to de-sensitize the harmful effects of nuclear weapons so that living with “the bomb” would be less apprehensive and anxious for Americans.
One of the things that helped eased the process of de-mobilization for veterans returning to the United States after World War II was a piece of legislation that allowed returning soldiers to get federal financial aid to attend college or start a small business. The piece of legislation that authorized this was the __________?
NSC # 68
National Security Act of 1947
Taft-Hartely Act of 1947
McCarran Act of 1950
Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944
Why did Truman fire General MacArthur as the leader of the forces in Korea?
MacArthur did not want to make the Inchon Invasion.
MacArthur wanted to take the war into China and use nuclear bombs there.
MacArthur was running for the Democratic nomination in 1948.
MacArthur defected to the Soviet Union in 1951.
MacArthur admitted to being a card-carrying member of the Communist Party.
