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APUSH - World War II Quiz

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A series of laws created after World War I designed to prevent US arms sales and loans to nations at war.

a)

Cash and Carry

b)

Lend Lease Act

c)

Atlantic Charter

d)

Neutrality Acts

2.

Policy established by the Neutrality Act of 1939 which allowed nations at war to buy weapons from the United States provided that foreign ships transported those weapons from the United States. (The law was intended to help Great Britain and France obtain weapons for their fight against the Axis powers.)

a)

Cash-and-Carry Plan

b)

Lend-Lease Act

c)

Atlantic Charter

d)

Executive Order 9066

3.

Law allowing nations fighting against the Axis powers, such as Great Britain, to borrow or lease military equipment from the United States

a)

Executive Order 9066

b)

Appeasement

c)

Atlantic Charter

d)

Lend-Lease Act

4.

Term Franklin Roosevelt used to describe the United States' role in World War II while the nation tried to stay out of combat.

a)

Lend-Lease

b)

Arsenal for Democracy

c)

Liberty Bonds

d)

Rationing

5.

Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” included all the following except

a)

freedom from want

b)

freedom from

fear

c)

freedom of worship

d)

freedom of opportunity

6.

Which American hero became a leading spokesperson for isolationism and the America First Committee ultimately damaging his reputation?

a)

Audie Murphey

b)

George Patton

c)

Anthony McAuliffe

d)

Charles Lindbergh

7.

A statement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill pledging that both the United States and Great Britain would work for a world free of aggression.

a)

Fascism

b)

Atlantic Charter

c)

Executive Order 9066

d)

Lend-Lease Act

8.

Which event brought the United States into World War II?

a)

Germany's invasion of Poland

b)

Germany's attack on France

c)

Japan's attack on the Philippines

d)

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

9.

Which of the following authorized the creation of relocation camps in which many Japanese-Americans were placed during World War II

a)

Executive Order 9066

b)

Manhattan Project

c)

Atlantic Charter

d)

Lend-Lease Act

10.

Rosie the Riveter came to symbolize which of the following ideas during World War II?

a)

For women to work factory jobs to support the war effort (defnese industries)

b)

That women are capable of some jobs but only if needed

c)

That women can do some jobs during war

d)

That women will only work if they get paid

11.

A. Phillip Randolph planned to March on Washington because he wanted FDR to

a)

require equal pay for women

b)

ban child labor

c)

create better jobs for Americans

d)

prevent hiring discrimination by companies with government contracts

12.

What did the Double V campaign stand for?

a)

segregating troops during WWII

b)

racial equality at home and at the warfront to battle fascism

c)

allowing women to fight in the front lines

d)

victory in the European and Pacific Theaters of war

13.

Which agency of the United States government supervised war production during World War II.

a)

War Production Board

b)

Office of Price Administration

c)

Fair Employment Practices Commission

d)

FDIC

14.

During World War II the federal government implemented a policy of rationing in an effort to

a)

prevent war materials from getting to the Axis powers

b)

keep German and Japanese Americans from receiving government aid

c)

make sure there was enough food and fuel for civilians and the military

d)

prevent opposition to the war effort

15.

What was the goal of the D-Day invasion?

a)

open up a new front in the East to relieve pressure on the Soviet Union

b)

push the Italians out of Africa

c)

open up a second front in Europe and liberate France

d)

force the Japanese to surrender

16.
The American campaign to defeat the Japanese shown in the map above was known as
a)

blitzkrieg

b)

the Double V campaign

c)

island hopping

d)

island trenching

17.

The US program to develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II.

a)

Chicago Project

b)

Bronx Project

c)

Manhattan Project

d)

Los Angeles Project

18.

Which president ordered the atomic bombs be used against Japan?

a)

FDR

b)

Truman

c)

Stalin

d)

Churchill

19.

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

a)

Hiroshima

b)

Nagasaki

c)

Tokyo

d)

Shanghai

20.

Meeting held between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in which they agreed on post-war policy, such as the treatment of Germany, its occupied nations, and the creation of the United Nations

a)

United Nations

b)

Atlantic Charter

c)

Nuremberg Trials

d)

Yalta Conference

21.

What were two economic effects of World War II on the home front?

a)
b)
c)
d)
22.

Post war trials at which Nazi leaders were judged for war crimes, including crimes against humanity

a)

Nuremberg Trials

b)

Yalta Conference

c)

Executive Order 9066

d)

Potsdam Conference

23.

The primary purpose for the creation of the United Nations was to

a)

maintain an international army

b)

promote peace through international agreements

c)

free Eastern European countries from communism

d)

supply food to all member countries