Deck 20: World War Ii at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945

Question 1

What was the Atlantic Charter? ​

A)an accord in which Britain,Russia,and the United States agreed to a united strategy in the Pacific theater
B)the predecessor to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,an intergovernmental military alliance
C)​the program by which the United States pledged financial support for the Allies fighting in the war
D)​a statement in which FDR and Churchill called for freedom of the seas and self-determination for all people

Answer 1

​a statement in which FDR and Churchill called for freedom of the seas and self-determination for all people

Question 2

Which of the following statements regarding the fall of the Philippines is false? ​

A)Trapped U.S.troops held out for six months in the Bataan Peninsula before being forced to surrender to Japanese troops.
B)President Roosevelt ordered commanding general Douglas MacArthur to slip out of the Philippines,leaving his troops behind.
C)​When the defenders surrendered,the Japanese forced them to walk roughly 70 miles with little or no food or water.
D)​The fall of the Philippines deeply divided Americans,who began to question whether the country should be at war.

Answer 2

​The fall of the Philippines deeply divided Americans,who began to question whether the country should be at war.

Question 3

On December 8,1941 Congress declared war against ​

A)Germany.
B)Japan.
C)​Germany and Japan.
D)​Japan and Italy.

Answer 3

Japan.

Question 4

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg helped prevent the deportation of thousands of Jews to Nazi concentration camps from what country? ​

A)Austria
B)Belgium
C)​Bulgaria
D)​Hungary

Question 5

The "zoot suit riots" targeted what group? ​

A)African Americans 
B)Japanese Americans 
C)​Mexican Americans 
D)​Jewish Americans 

Question 6

Which of the following statements regarding the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is true? ​

A)Several incidents of Japanese espionage,including some carried out by Japanese Americans,convinced FDR to resort to the internment option.
B)FBI director J.Edgar Hoover claimed the FBI had evidence that the Japanese Americans were an immediate threat to U.S.security.
C)​Nisei,or Japanese Americans who born in the United States,were exempt from the Japanese American internment,but many went voluntarily to be with their families.
D)​Japanese internment camps were erected in the deserts of California and Arizona,the mountains of Wyoming,and the scrublands of Utah and Colorado.

Question 7

In August 1939,the world was stunned when Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with what world leader? ​

A)Edouard Daladier
B)Francisco Franco
C)​Benito Mussolini
D)​Joseph Stalin

Question 8

What was the Maginot Line? ​

A)a cruise ship that was sunk by German submarines,drawing the United States into the war
B)the path travelled by German troops on their way through Belgium,Holland,and Luxembourg
C)​an imaginary line facing Germany where France gathered troops to defend against German attack
D)​the flotilla of ships along the French coast taking retreating English troops after being trapped by German troops

Question 9

What was the main purpose of the War Production Board? ​

A)to facilitate the sale of war bonds
B)to encourage private companies to make war materiel
C)​to oversee the rationing program and enforce rationing
D)​to provide a means for Americans to donate raw materials 

Question 10

Roughly how many people perished in Nazi concentration camps in Poland and Germany? ​

A)100,000
B)500,000
C)​1 million
D)​2 million
E)​10 million

Question 11

Who was the British prime minister that proclaimed in 1938 that an agreement with Hitler had achieved "peace in our time"? ​

A)Clement Attlee
B)Neville Chamberlain
C)​Winston Churchill
D)​Edouard Daladier

Question 12

What was Operation OVERLORD? ​

A)the 1942 invasion of French colonies in North Africa
B)the 1943 siege of Stalingrad
C)​the 1944 invasion of the beaches of Normandy
D)​the ongoing bombing and destruction of rail lines in Europe

Question 13

What was the Double V campaign? ​

A)a campaign in which African Americans fought for equal rights 
B)a campaign in which labor unions fought to protect workers' rights
C)​a campaign in which women fought for equal pay in the workplace
D)​a campaign in which the military fought simultaneously on two fronts 

Question 14

A 1943 fight between whites and blacks sparked a race riot that left thirty-five people dead and more than seven hundred wounded in the city of ​

A)Atlanta.
B)Detroit.
C)​Los Angeles.
D)​Philadelphia.

Question 15

What federal office was charged with supervising rationing and controlling inflation caused by over-demand and under-supply? ​

A)the Lend-Lease Program
B)the National War Labor Board
C)​the Office of Price Administration
D)​the War Production Board

Question 16

Who or what was Rosie the Riveter? ​

A)the nickname of a highly effective tank
B)a woman who earned fame for her heroics 
C)​a symbolic image of the female war worker
D)​the first woman to become the head of a Fortune 500 company

Question 17

Germany's lightening strike invasion of Poland was called the ​

A)Anschluss
B)Blitzkrieg
C)​Kristallnacht
D)​Luftwaffe

Question 18

On December 7,1941,Japanese planes destroyed the battleship Arizona in an attack that occurred where? ​

A)Hawaii
B)the Philippines
C)​the South Pacific
D)​the Sea of Japan

Question 19

Which of the following statements regarding the progress of Allied forces during World War II is true? ​

A)U.S.troops invaded the French colonies of Morocco and Algeria in late 1942.
B)Britain and the United States mounted a joint defensive in France in early 1943.
C)​The United States sent troops to fight alongside Russian troops on the Russian border in mid-1943.
D)​By 1943 new technologies had made German submarines less effective than they had been earlier in the war.

Question 20

Which of the following supported the Lend-Lease Act of 1941? ​

A)America First Committee
B)Henry Ford
C)​Charles Lindbergh
D)​Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 21

Who became president following the death of FDR on April 12,1945? ​

A)Herbert Hoover
B)Warren Harding
C)​Calvin Coolidge
D)​Harry Truman
E)​Dwight Eisenhower

Question 22

The first U.S.offensive in the Pacific theater occurred at Guadalcanal,a small island off New Guinea.​

Question 23

The national debt increased only slightly between 1941 and 1945.​

Question 24

Which of the following statements does not accurately describe the war in the Pacific? ​

A)U.S.victories at Coral Sea and Midway shattered the illusion of Japan's invincibility.
B)After securing Guadalcanal,Americans began leapfrogging islands to move on Japan.
C)​The United States adopted a two-pronged attack that would culminate in a final attack on Japan.
D)​Kamikaze attacks had a significant impact on morale but did little damage to the U.S.fleet.

Question 25

What was the Manhattan Project? ​

A)a top-secret program aimed at creating an atomic bomb
B)a program to ensure the profitability of private corporations with government contracts
C)​a program in which the government assumed ownership of automobile factories to make planes and tanks
D)​a program aimed at developing new technologies to counter the threat of German submarines

Question 26

In 1945,U.S.President Franklin D.Roosevelt,British Prime Minister Winston Churchill,and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met to discuss the progress of the war and the postwar world.Where did this historic meeting take place? ​

A)Potsdam
B)Paris
C)​Moscow
D)​Yalta

Question 27

The Bataan Death March refers to the brutal treatment of U.S.prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines ​

Question 28

The Atlantic Charter established the lend-lease program.​

Question 29

More than 3 million U.S.women entered the workforce for the first time during World War II.​

Question 30

The Selective Service Act of 1940 was the first peacetime draft in U.S.history.​

Question 31

What was the significance of the 1943 battle at Stalingrad? ​

A)Russia's victory marked a turning point in the war.
B)Germany's control following its victory hindered Soviet access to supplies.
C)​Germany's victory was one of the factors that compelled the United States to enter the war.
D)​Russia's victory was fleeting,as an undisciplined Russian army spread itself too thin to protect the city for long.

Question 32

At Yalta,Allied leaders agreed to divide Germany into four "zones of occupation" at war's end.​

Question 33

What battle marked a turning point in the Pacific theater,proving to be the end of the Japanese offensive? ​

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

Question 34

​Immediately following the war,Congress awarded reparations to the Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps.

Question 35

The Japanese government began to discuss surrender terms after ​

A)the Soviet navy moved into the Sea of Japan.
B)the United States declared victory in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
C)​the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
D)​the Allies insisted on unconditional surrender as a prerequisite to peace.

Question 36

Operation TORCH was the code name for the D-Day invasion of France.​

Question 37

Cost-plus wartime contracts were designed to ensure a company a profit when filling military orders or producing war materiel ​

Question 38

On December 8,1941,Congress declared war on Japan after a very close vote. ​

Question 39

Although the Japanese destroyed eighteen U.S.warships in its attack on Pearl Harbor,the United States suffered no loss of life. ​