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WorksheetsCRM 3.1 WWII SUMMATIVE REVIEW
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
After learning about the human rights horrors of the Holocaust, what organization did President Roosevelt create to provide relief to those who were most impacted?
War Refugee Board
Neutrality Act of 1939
League of Nations
Lend Lease Act
What organization was created to prohibit companies funded by the federal government from discriminating against African Americans (and other minorities)?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC)
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
National Organization of Colored American People (NOCAP)
To try to bring an end ot the war with Japan quickly, President Truman did what?
Sent troops to invade mainland Japan
Worked with allied forces for a mass invasion of Normandy
Dropped the atomic (nuclear) bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Signed a letter of intent for the US to join the League of Nations
What were hotels in Florida used for during WWII?
Bomb shelters for local residents
Getaway vacations for government officials
Internment camps for Japanese Americans
Barracks and hospitals for the military
What was a direct result of the Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Empire?
FDR asked congress to declare war on Japan
The US declared war on Germany
Congress petitioned for an immediate investigation
It led to the creation of the War Refugee Board
In what major event did the US work with allied forces to liberate France?
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Midway
Operation Desert Storm, VE Day
The D-Day invasion
What key reason did the US use to keep Jewish refugees from Germany to enter the United States
Espionage Act of 1939
Immigration laws aimed at limiting the number of immigrants from foreign countries
Public fear that those entering could actually be Nazi spies
The worry that the refugees would bring new diseases to America
Why were people in American ("at home") during the war encouraged to carpool?
To make sure there was less congestion on the highways
To use as many resources as possible
To conserve resources like gas
To make sure cars were strong enough to be used overseas
All civilians helping the war effort at home (including women working "men's jobs in factories) is an example of what?
Mobilization
Active military service
non-combatant roles in the military
demobilization
True or False: Other nations will eventually develop atomic weapons after the US uses them.
True
False
It was deemed that countries as well as individuals could be charged with war crimes ("crimes against humanity") as a result of what?
Japanese Internment
Nuremberg Trial outcome
Normandy Invasion
Plight of the Jews
This map depicts a wartime strategy to occupy islands bringing the United States closer to mainland Japan (also known as leapfrogging) was
Island Hopping
Battle of Midway
Blitzkrieg
Lightning War
Why did the US make so many neutrality laws throughout the later part of the 1930's and early 1940's?
To remain isolated and neutral in the event of a war
To maintain strong trade relationships with foreign nations
To protect all North and South American countries
To ensure we could build a strong military presence on Mainland US
How did the US eventually give up neutrality in support of Great Britain?
By creating the Lend-Lease Act
By creating an Anti-Neutrality law
By acting against Germany's wishes that we just "stay out"
By working with Russia on the Eastern front of Germany
How did Cash and Carry keep the US from participating in the war (help U.S. maintain neutrality)?
By promising all countries the same offer for weapons
By working around German U Boats ensuring weapons were delivered safely
By ensuring they didn't physically bring weapons to the war
By only shipping goods in the Pacific Ocean
Japanese-American internment was deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court as it presented a "clear and present danger" to the US according to landmark Supreme Court case?
Japanese Internment v United States (1943)
Korematsu v United States (1944)
United States v Kamikaze (1942)
United States v Hirohito (1945)
Japanese Americans being forced from their homes and into internment camps was a result of what event?
Bombing of Hiroshima
Bombing of Nagasaki
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Bombing of the SS Maine
Nazis were ultimately charged with "crimes against humanity" during what event?
Treaty of Versailles
VE Day Celebration
Double Victory Day
Nuremberg Trials
Which of the following African American helped write the Charter for the United Nations?
Mary McLeod Bethune
Ella Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
W.E.B DuBois
An organization formed after WWII to replace the League of Nations in an effort to maintain the world peace and international cooperation.
League of Nations 2.0
United Nations
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
League of Friendship
Along with protecting the coastline, how else did Florida contribute to World War II?
Civilian Attack Units would search the coast for the enemy
Moved to inward states like Missouri and Tennessee
Contributed to the new international peacekeeping organization (Mary McLeod Bethune)
Lay barbed wire along the entire coastline of eastern seaboard in Florida
Changes in views on military weaponry and people being held accountable for war crimes are _________________ of World War II.
consequences
causes
