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Honors WWII Review 2023
Honors WWII Review 2023
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1
Which superhero became a super soldier to fight in WWII?
Thor
Captain America
The Hulk
Hawkeye
2
In September 1938 in Munich Germany...
Britain and France consented to Hitler taking the Sudetenland
Hitler declared his intention to take Austria
Hitler signed the Axis Treaty with with Japan
3
Hitler's biggest mistake in the war was his decision to
create concentration camps
invade the United States
invade the Soviet Union
4
The West Coast was declared a military zone, and all people of __ ancestry were evacuated to 10 internment camps.
Italian
German
Japanese
5
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because...
FDR suspected that if an attack came it would be overseas
FDR believed the attack would be in Malaysia or the Philippines
no American officials suspected that Japan might start a war with the US.
6
Throughout the 1930's, the American people responded to the aggressive actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan by...
demanding an oil embargo on all warring nations
retreating further into isolationism
7
Germany invaded _________________ to start WWII.
Italy
Poland
France
USSR
8
In 1940, in exchange for American destroyers, the British gave the U.S....
eight valuable naval bases in the Western Hemisphere
a role in developing the atomic bomb
9
African Americans did all of the following during WWII
except
rally behind the slogan "Double V"
fight in integrated combat units
10
The cross-channel invasion of Normandy to open a second front in Europe was commanded by General
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Dwight Eisenhower
11
Why was the United States able to expand its war production so quickly after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
US could expand its production bc the government had begun to mobilize the
US could expand its production bc the government had built extra factories.
12
America dropped atomic bombs on which country at the end of WWII?
Germany
Russia
Japan
China
13
This document ended the war and set the stage for WWII
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Paris
Nuremberg accords
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
14
After the US entered WWII in 1941, the term "enemy aliens" referred to:
Japanese living in the US
Italians living in the US
Germans living in the US
15
One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office was...
joining the League of Nations
formal recognition of the Soviet Union
16
During WWII the US became an Arsenal of Democracy, What does this mean?
We set fire to major world capitals
We began placing Japanese Americans in internment camps
Rosie became a superstar
We began mass producing military supplies for our allies
17
Who was the President of the United States at the start of WWII?
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
18
During WWII, most Americans economically experienced
a continuing struggle to find employment
prosperity and doubling of personal income
hardships due to rationing of essential goods
19
The US remained selectively neutral in WWII by passing a series of these:
Monster Mashes
Neutering Acts
Lend Lease Acts
Neutrality Acts
20
Hitler's advance in the European theater of war crested in late 1942 at the Battle of _____________.
Stalingrad
the Bulge
Britain
21
The event that shook Americans and moved them to make an enormous effort against Hitler's aggression in Europe was:
the fall of France
Hitler's moves on England
the invasion of Poland
22
Why does Captain Miller reveal what he did for a living back in the states?
To make sure no one won the pool.
To stop the men from fighting each other.
To win the pool that the soldiers have on him.
To distract the enemy
23
Saving Private Ryan is loosely based on the story of which of the following families:
The Niland Brothers
The Smith Brothers
24
Shortly after Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union
Britain and France signed a similar aggreement
Germany invaded Poland and started WWII
Italy signed a similar agreement with the Soviets
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The spending of enormous sums of on the original atomic bomb project was spurred by the belief that
a nuclear weapon was the only way to win the war
the Germans might acquire such a weapon first
the Japanese were at work on an atomic bomb project of their own
