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APUSH AMSCO Ch 25 World War 2
APUSH AMSCO Ch 25 World War 2
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1
Smith v. Allwright (1944) prohibited
abortion
segregation in public schools
all-white primaries
prayer in public schools
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What do Alf Landon, Wendell Willkie and Thomas Dewey have in common?
Were blamed for the lax attitudes at Pearl Harbor
Lost to FDR in presidential elections
Led the Manhattan Project scientists
Lobbied FDR to drop the atomic bombs on Japan
3
What did Mexican president Lazaro Cardenas do that caused corporations to ask FDR for military action?
seized property of US oil companies
pardoned vigilantes who raided companies near the border
made it illegal to celebrate Cinco de Mayo
nationalized sugar cane production
4
Smith v. Allwright (1944) prohibited
prayer in public schools
all-white primaries
segregation in public schools
abortion
5
What was the location of D-Day?
Normandy, France
Dunkirk, France
Paris, France
Bourdeaux, France
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Who was Rosie The Riveter?
A woman in power
A World War II icon
An actress
A proponent of women's sufferage
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Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force
Winston Churchill
Erwin Rommel
Dwight Eisenhower
George S. Patton
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Who was the general who led the fascist army to victory in 1939 during the Spanish Civil War?
Lazaro Cardenas
Francisco Franco
Pancho Villa
Benito Menendez
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Commander of the US Pacific Theater of Operations
Chester Nimitz
Dwight Eisenhower
Omar Bradley
Douglas McArthur
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who was Fred Korematsu
American Civil rights activist for African American rights
American activist for feminists movements
Japanese American Civil rights activist who objected the internment camps
An American trying to incarcerate Japanese Americans
11
Which man would be most closely associated with the America First Committee?
Wendell Willkie
Franklin Roosevelt
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Coughlin
12
What happened on VE day?
Germany surrendered
Pearl Harbour was bombed
Hitler invaded Poland
The war began
13
What was the Manhattan Project?
Program started during Truman’s presidency
Research & development project, produced the 1st atomic bomb
Road reconstruction project in New York City
Project to decrease immigration from Europe to the US
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Where was the Sudetenland?
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Germany
Poland
15
How many people were killed during the holocaust?
5 million
1 million
6 million
11 million
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How did the Appeasement backfire?
Hitler's ambition rose
Hitler invaded Britain
It gave Hitler time to build his military
Hitler regained territory
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Who were the Braceros?
Mexican Workers
Mexican American voters
Mexican Businessmen
Mexican Soldiers
18
What was VJ Day?
the day Germany surrendered
the day the US surrendered
the day Italy declared allegiance to Hitler
the day Japan surrendered
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What is a kamikaze?
Land in the Philippines
Suicide planes
A U.S. ship
Japanese troops
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What is the significance of Iwo Jima?
US Marines were not victorious.
Nearly 7,000 Japanese soldiers lost their lives during battle
It was a resupply station for the Pacific.
This was the first battle on US soil.
21
What was the blitzkrieg?
Opposition to all war
Lightning war
German air force
Giving in to an aggressor's demands to keep peace
22
Benito Mussolini
leader of Japan during the WWII era
leader of USA during the WWII era
leader of Italy during the WWII era
leader of Germany during the WWII era
23
What was accomplished in the Philippines by the Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934?
gave the military control of the government
provided for the independence of the Philippines
extablished Gen. Douglas McArthur as the Supreme Commander
allowed Filipinos to join the US Army
24
What three cities were sites for conferences between FDR, Churchill, and/or Stalin?
Casablanca, Tehran, Yalta
Paris, Geneva, London
Berlin, Romo, Tokyo
London, Moscow, New York
25
Why did Benito Mussolini invade Ethiopia?
to protect Ethiopia from Belgian imperialism
to gain the support of his allies
to prove that Italy was becoming an empire
to spread fascism into Africa
26
Who attended the Potsdam meeting in Berlin that divided Germany and required unconditional surrender from Japan?
Eisenhower, Montgomery, Patton
Hirohito, Hitler, Mussolini
Truman, Atlee, Stalin
FDR, Churchill, Stalin
27
What was the name of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima?
Little Man
Fat Man
Little Boy
Big Boy
28
What did the Selective Service Act do?
Promoted Communism
Allowed atheists to opt out of the war
Gave people industrial jobs
Authorized a draft
29
Who were the opposing leaders in the post WW2 Civil War in China?
Hideo Miyagi and Pat Morita
Naomi Osaka and Yoko Ono
Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek
Michinomiya Hirohito and Fred Korematsu
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Which country violated the Open Door policy by invading Manchuria?
Russia
United States
Japan
China
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Axis Powers
Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain
Germany, Japan, Italy
USA, Germany, Japan, Italy
Great Britain, France, Belgium
32
The Stimson Doctrine (1932) responded to the 1931 Japanese occupation of Manchuria...
declared that the US wouldn't recognize territory acquired by force
US joined the League of Nations effort to impost economic sanctions
reversed the US long-standing interventionist policies
announced the US willingness to outlaw war as a nat'l policy
33
What does the S in Harry S. Truman stand for?
nothing
Sterling
Simon
Spencer
34
Gerald Nye and Charles Lindbergh were:
Communists.
Internationalists.
Interventionists.
Isolationists.
35
What gave the US veto power over Cuban foreign policy until it was nullified under FDR in 1934?
Monroe Doctrine
Roosevelt Corollary
Platt Amendment
Adams-Onis Treaty
36
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
a statement of war aims by Roosevelt and Churchill
an order to destroy German U-boats on sight
a nonaggression pack between Germany and Soviet Union
a policy allowing the President to give arms to certain countries
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The post Nye Committee legislation wanted the US to-
enter the war in Europe only
not enter the war- isolationism
remain neutral
enter the war in Asia only
38
Who were victims of the Holocaust?
Jews, Ethiopians, Africans, Italians
Jews, Soviet POW's, Poles, Disabled, Homosexuals.
Jews, Australians, Serbians, Chinese
Jews, Americans, Mexicans, British, Homosexuals
39
What was the double V campaign?
a slogan to promote Democracy from the home front
a way to promote the incarceration Of Japanese peoples
Americans trying to get other Americans to join the forces
a slogan to promote feminists rights
40
What countries were led by Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee after WW2?
Stalingrad and Petrograd
Taiwan and mainland China
North and South Korea
China and Japan
41
The Good Neighbor Policy was meant to establish friendlier relations with
India
European Countries
Latin American Countries
Canada
42
What was the Open Door Policy?
US opened trade with China to take raw materials
US opened trade to China for all countries
Germany opened China to trade
China opened their borders for spheres of influence
43
What were the Neutrality Acts?
Laws that required the US to be involved in WWII
Laws that asked soldiers to sign up for military service
Laws that required the US to trade with all nations
Laws passed that forbade the US to become involved in WWII
44
What is the message that the Office of War Information wished to convey?
Women should become more independent
Women could carry on by themselves with men at war
Women were equal to men in every aspect
Women were needed to replace men who had gone to fight
45
What was the purpose of the Four Freedoms speech?
to prepare America for a war FDR knew would come
to encourage America to take the right to vote seriously
statement of what the US was willing to fight for
declaration of war against Germany and Japan
46
What battle marked the turning point of WW2 in the Pacific Theater?
Okinawa
Midway
Guam
Iwo Jima
47
What was the role of the Office of Price Administration?
to raise consumer prices so that allies would pay more for goods
lower or remove taxes using the authority of the Revenue Act
ration & set price ceilings on high-demand items such as tires, sugar, gas
to combat the serious wartime deflation due to high unemployment rates
48
J. Robert Oppenheimer was in charge of
Rationing on the home front
The Manhattan Project
Defending Australia
The Battle of the Bulge
49
John Foster Dulles was Sec. of State for which president during the Cold War?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Richard Milhous Nixon
Dwight David Eisenhower
50
"A date which will live in infamy."
December 7th, 1941
December 5th, 1941
December 2, 1941
December 1, 1941
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
FDR, 1933 inaugaration speech
Harry Truman regarding the atomic bomb
Herbert Hoover after the stock market crash
FDR declaring war after Pearl Harbor
52
who attend the Yalta Conference?
Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt
Hitler, Stalin
Bush, Obama, Trump
Mussolini, Churchill
53
How did the Nazi party come to power in Germany?
Elections
Rock Paper Scissors
A sit in/Protest
A coup
54
The cash and carry tactic was used to preserve what?
Appeasement
Neutrality
Interventionalism
Brinksmanship
55
What was the Dawes Plan?
Economic plan to help Germany pay reparations after WW1
An economic plan to support opponents of facism / Mussolini in Italy
An economic plan to aid France so it could resist Hitler
An economic plan to loan money to England for building more ships
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What Western Hemisphere meeting did FDR attend and pledge not to intervene in Latin American affairs?
Co-Americas Group
Pan-American Conference
Columbian Exchange
Western Consortium
