Deck 8: America and World War II, 1941-1945

Question 1

One of the major turning points of World War II, the Battle of ________ saw Russia launch a counter-offensive that forced 100,000 German troops to surrender.

A) Leningrad
B) Petersburg
C) Kiev
D) Stalingrad
E) Omsk

Answer 1

Stalingrad

Question 2

Why was Japan able to occupy most of China's eastern coast in 1937?

A) Japan had a superior army.
B) Japan had a superior navy.
C) China was involved in a war with Russia.
D) China was involved in a civil war.
E) China was concentrating her energies on building up her economy.

Answer 2

China was involved in a civil war.

Question 3

The Massachusetts congresswoman who sponsored legislation during World War II benefiting women serving in military positions was________.

A) Edith Nourse Rogers
B) Marion E. Martin
C) Bernice T. Van de Vries
D) Louise M. Young
E) Jeannette Rankin

Answer 3

Edith Nourse Rogers

Question 4

The War Refugee Board lifted immigration restrictions against ________.

A) Russians
B) Poles
C) Italians
D) Jews
E) Mexicans

Question 5

Executive Order 8802 outlawed discrimination by any ______.

A) rural agricultural program.
B) farmer participating in the Bracero Program
C) labor union.
D) employer who received defense contracts.
E) branch of the service

Question 6

Following the U.S. declaration of war again the Axis nations, the U.S. government immediately conducted arrests of Japanese

A) newspaper editors.
B) civil rights leaders.
C) community leaders.
D) Buddhist priests.
E) all of the above.

Question 7

Who is the Japanese Naval commander who doubted the wisdom of attacking the United States and so created a strategy based on a decisive victory over the American Pacific fleet that he hoped would temporarily paralyze the U.S. Navy?

A) Fumimaro Konoe
B) Kuniaki Koiso
C) Hiroyasu Fushimi
D) Osami Nagano
E) Isoroku Yamamoto

Question 8

Which two U.S. controlled areas did the Japanese attack in the winter of 1941, resulting in the U.S. declaration of war against the Axis nations?

A) Philippines and Pearl Harbor
B) Guam and Wake Island
C) Philippines and Wake Island
D) Guam and Pearl Harbor
E) Philippines and Guam

Question 9

Germany's decision to invade ________ bought time for the U.S. to prepare for entering World War II?

A) Poland
B) England
C) France
D) Russia
E) Hungary

Question 10

The Revenue Act of 1942_________.

A) imposed heavy taxes on U.S. businesses.
B) doubled the amount of money the government collected from individuals.
C) forever changed the nature of income tax in America.
D) A and C
E) B and C

Question 11

The Manchurian Crisis was a conflict between Japan and ________.

A) Russia
B) China
C) Thailand
D) Korea
E) Vietnam

Question 12

"Code Talkers" were comprised of what group?

A) U.S. born Japanese
B) Navajo
C) Specially trained women
D) U.S. seals
E) All of the above

Question 13

The Bataan Death March forced 75,000 __________ and _______ prisoners of war across the Bataan Peninsula.

A) Japanese
B) Filipino
C) United States
D) A and B
E) B and C

Question 14

Between 1941-1945, as U.S. businesses met the government's production goals, corporate profits_______.

A) rose by 10%
B) doubled
C) tripled
D) rose by 25%
E) quadrupled

Question 15

______ is an interracial civil rights organization founded in 1942 by James Farmer and others who sought to utilize the same non-violent protest methods employed by Gandhi in India.

A) DARE
B) AME
C) NAACP
D) CORE
E) SNCC

Question 16

What battle proved to be the turning point in the Battle of the Pacific?

A) Battle of Coral Sea
B) Battle of the Bulge
C) Battle of Midway
D) Battle of Guadalcanal
E) Battle of Iwo Jima

Question 17

How did the Japanese protest their internment from within their camp walls?

A) They volunteered for military service
B) They renounced their citizenship
C) They protested forced relocation in court cases.
D) They sent letters calling for their release.
E) All of the above.

Question 18

As the U.S. rushed to out-manufacturer its enemies, more women joined the work force. __________ of the new employees hired for military production were women.

A) Ten percent
B) Twenty-five percent
C) Fifty percent
D) Seventy-five percent
E) None of the above

Question 19

The most historic change to the armed services during World War II was the authorization of

A) integrated barracks.
B) non-U.S. citizens to join the army.
C) citizens of U.S. territories to join the army.
D) female service in the army.
E) Native Americans in the army.

Question 20

The "Bracero Program" recruited Mexican _______

A) laborers in agriculture.
B) military leaders.
C) laborers in railroad construction.
D) A and B
E) A and C.

Question 21

The German Field Marshal who led North African forces to several victories over Allied forces, also known as "The Desert Fox."

A) Heinrich Himmler
B) Albert Speer
C) Erich Raeder
D) Erwin Rommel
E) Walter Model

Question 22

Who is the five-star general and Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Western Europe during World War II?

A) George Marshall
B) Dwight D. Eisenhower
C) Omar Bradley
D) George S. Patton
E) Chester W. Nimitz

Question 23

D-Day is the name given to an amphibious land of U.S. and British forces along a 50-mile coastline in

A) Italy
B) Africa
C) France
D) Russia
E) Japan

Question 24

The overall U.S. strategy in the Pacific theater during World War II was known as _______.

A) blitzkrieg
B) strategic bombing
C) siege warfare
D) island hoping
E) carrier action

Question 25

The code name given to the World War II campaign to land U.S. and British troops on the French coast was __________.

A) Operation Barbarossa
B) Operation Overlord
C) Operation Iceburg
D) Operation Firebrand
E) Operation Twilight

Question 26

The top-secret operation during which U.S. physicists created the atomic bomb is called the ________

A) Manhattan Project.
B) Project 57
C) Operation Morning Light
D) Project Kempster-Lacroix
E) Operation Argus

Question 27

Vice President _______ became president in 1945 following President Franklin Roosevelt's death.

A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) Woodrow Wilson
C) Herbert Hoover
D) Dwight D. Eisenhower
E) Harry S. Truman

Question 28

The often called "father of the bomb"

A) Paul Tibbets
B) Robert Serber
C) Sidney Greenstreet
D) J. Robert Oppenheimer
E) Dashiell Hammett

Question 29

A leading U.S. general during the Allied campaigns in North Africa and Sicily, this general led the U.S. Third Army in its rescue of the U.S. troops surrounded during the Battle of the Bulge.

A) George Marshall
B) Douglas MacArthur
C) Omar Bradley
D) George S. Patton
E) Chester W. Nimitz