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WorksheetsAPUSH - World War II Quiz
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 22mins
A series of laws created after World War I designed to prevent US arms sales and loans to nations at war.
Cash and Carry
Lend Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Neutrality Acts
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.)
Cash-and-Carry Plan
Lend-Lease Act
Atlantic Charter
Executive Order 9066
Law allowing nations fighting against the Axis powers, such as Great Britain, to borrow or lease military equipment from the United States
Executive Order 9066
Appeasement
Atlantic Charter
Lend-Lease Act
Term Franklin Roosevelt used to describe the United States' role in World War II while the nation tried to stay out of combat.
Lend-Lease
Arsenal for Democracy
Liberty Bonds
Rationing
Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” included all the following except
freedom from want
freedom from
fear
freedom of worship
freedom of opportunity
Which American hero became a leading spokesperson for isolationism and the America First Committee ultimately damaging his reputation?
Audie Murphey
George Patton
Anthony McAuliffe
Charles Lindbergh
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.
Fascism
Atlantic Charter
Executive Order 9066
Lend-Lease Act
Which event brought the United States into World War II?
Germany's invasion of Poland
Germany's attack on France
Japan's attack on the Philippines
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
Which of the following authorized the creation of relocation camps in which many Japanese-Americans were placed during World War II
Executive Order 9066
Manhattan Project
Atlantic Charter
Lend-Lease Act
Rosie the Riveter came to symbolize which of the following ideas during World War II?
For women to work factory jobs to support the war effort (defnese industries)
That women are capable of some jobs but only if needed
That women can do some jobs during war
That women will only work if they get paid
A. Phillip Randolph planned to March on Washington because he wanted FDR to
require equal pay for women
ban child labor
create better jobs for Americans
prevent hiring discrimination by companies with government contracts
What did the Double V campaign stand for?
segregating troops during WWII
racial equality at home and at the warfront to battle fascism
allowing women to fight in the front lines
victory in the European and Pacific Theaters of war
Which agency of the United States government supervised war production during World War II.
War Production Board
Office of Price Administration
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FDIC
During World War II the federal government implemented a policy of rationing in an effort to
prevent war materials from getting to the Axis powers
keep German and Japanese Americans from receiving government aid
make sure there was enough food and fuel for civilians and the military
prevent opposition to the war effort
What was the goal of the D-Day invasion?
open up a new front in the East to relieve pressure on the Soviet Union
push the Italians out of Africa
open up a second front in Europe and liberate France
force the Japanese to surrender
blitzkrieg
the Double V campaign
island hopping
island trenching
The US program to develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II.
Chicago Project
Bronx Project
Manhattan Project
Los Angeles Project
Which president ordered the atomic bombs be used against Japan?
FDR
Truman
Stalin
Churchill
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.
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Tokyo
Shanghai
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
United Nations
Atlantic Charter
Nuremberg Trials
Yalta Conference
What were two economic effects of World War II on the home front?
Post war trials at which Nazi leaders were judged for war crimes, including crimes against humanity
Nuremberg Trials
Yalta Conference
Executive Order 9066
Potsdam Conference
The primary purpose for the creation of the United Nations was to
maintain an international army
promote peace through international agreements
free Eastern European countries from communism
supply food to all member countries
