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Honors WWII Review 2023
Honors WWII Review 2023
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1
After the US entered WWII in 1941, the term "enemy aliens" referred to:
Italians living in the US
Germans living in the US
Japanese living in the US
2
Throughout the 1930's, the American people responded to the aggressive actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan by...
retreating further into isolationism
demanding an oil embargo on all warring nations
3
One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term in office was...
formal recognition of the Soviet Union
joining the League of Nations
4
Which superhero became a super soldier to fight in WWII?
Thor
The Hulk
Hawkeye
Captain America
5
Hitler's advance in the European theater of war crested in late 1942 at the Battle of _____________.
Stalingrad
the Bulge
Britain
6
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
7
During WWII the US became an Arsenal of Democracy, What does this mean?
Rosie became a superstar
We began mass producing military supplies for our allies
We set fire to major world capitals
We began placing Japanese Americans in internment camps
8
The US remained selectively neutral in WWII by passing a series of these:
Lend Lease Acts
Neutrality Acts
Neutering Acts
Monster Mashes
9
Saving Private Ryan is loosely based on the story of which of the following families:
The Smith Brothers
The Niland Brothers
10
Germany invaded _________________ to start WWII.
Italy
France
USSR
Poland
11
The cross-channel invasion of Normandy to open a second front in Europe was commanded by General
George Patton
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
12
Hitler's biggest mistake in the war was his decision to
invade the Soviet Union
invade the United States
create concentration camps
13
America dropped atomic bombs on which country at the end of WWII?
China
Russia
Germany
Japan
14
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.
15
In 1940, in exchange for American destroyers, the British gave the U.S....
a role in developing the atomic bomb
eight valuable naval bases in the Western Hemisphere
16
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
17
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because...
FDR believed the attack would be in Malaysia or the Philippines
no American officials suspected that Japan might start a war with the US.
FDR suspected that if an attack came it would be overseas
18
The West Coast was declared a military zone, and all people of __ ancestry were evacuated to 10 internment camps.
Japanese
Italian
German
19
Who was the President of the United States at the start of WWII?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Harry S. Truman
20
The event that shook Americans and moved them to make an enormous effort against Hitler's aggression in Europe was:
the fall of France
the invasion of Poland
Hitler's moves on England
21
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
22
This document ended the war and set the stage for WWII
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Nuremberg accords
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Paris
23
Why does Captain Miller reveal what he did for a living back in the states?
To stop the men from fighting each other.
To make sure no one won the pool.
To win the pool that the soldiers have on him.
To distract the enemy
24
African Americans did all of the following during WWII
except
fight in integrated combat units
rally behind the slogan "Double V"
25
In September 1938 in Munich Germany...
Hitler declared his intention to take Austria
Britain and France consented to Hitler taking the Sudetenland
Hitler signed the Axis Treaty with with Japan
