World War II State Test Review Part 1

Question 1

Choose all that are true about the neutrality acts passed through the 1930s.

Accepted Answer

US businesses could not sell or loan money to any nation in a civil war., US business could not sell or loan money to a belligerent nation., They were passed as a result of the Nye Committees investigation.

Question 2

What is the main resource the US placed an embargo on towards Japan that affecting their military?

Accepted Answer

Oil

Question 3

Selective Service Act: Choose all that apply to his law during this unit. (3)

Accepted Answer

How we mobilized for war before the war had ever begun for the US., Known as the draft/conscription., First time we help a draft during peace time.

Question 4

Office of Research and Development

Accepted Answer

Worked to create new technologies used in the war.

Question 5

How did Hitler break the Nazi Soviet Non Aggression Pact?

Accepted Answer

By invading the Soviet Union in 1941.

Question 6

What was the purpose of FDR's 'shoot on sight' order?

Accepted Answer

To protect Lend Lease Aid given to Britain.

Question 7

Which group in the US supported American aiding Britain during during the late 1930s?

Accepted Answer

Committee to Defend America

Question 8

Code Talkers

Accepted Answer

Navajo that were used to transmit codes to one another in the Pacifc.

Question 9

Which is true about women during WWII? (3)

Accepted Answer

Rosie the Riveter became a symbol of the working woman., Women entered into the workforce to produce war equipment., Women were allowed in the military in non combat roles.

Question 10

Land invaded by Hitler that was considered a demilitarized zone occupied by the French.

Accepted Answer

Rhineland

Question 11

Part of northern China invaded by Japan for its natural resources.

Accepted Answer

Manchuria

Question 12

Nonaggression pact...

Accepted Answer

Hitler and Stalin's agreement not to attack one another.

Question 13

What country did Hitler invade that started the outbreak of WWII in Europe?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 14

Fascist leader of Germany

Accepted Answer

Hitler

Question 15

Country invaded by Hitler after being given a portion of it at the Munich Conference.

Accepted Answer

Czechoslovakia

Question 16

Country invaded by Mussolini

Accepted Answer

Ethiopia

Question 17

National War Labor Board

Accepted Answer

Focused on keeping workers from going on strike.

Question 18

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

Accepted Answer

Stalin

Question 19

Office of War Information

Accepted Answer

Worked to gain support for the war effort through propaganda.

Question 20

How many times did FDR get elected? What amendment ends this possibility?

Accepted Answer

4,22

Question 21

Choose all that are true about the Atlantic Charter (3)

Accepted Answer

Meeting prior to US invovlement in WWII., FDR promised that the US would enter into the war in Europe., Meeting between FDR and Churchill

Question 22

What region of the world did FDR attempt to mend relationships with using the "Good Neighbor Policy"?

Accepted Answer

Latin America

Question 23

Zoot Suit Riots?

Accepted Answer

Mexican Americans were beaten due to excessive fabric; seen as unpatriotic

Question 24

Bracero Program

Accepted Answer

Mexican immigrants brough to the US to helap with the war effort.

Question 25

Executive Order 9066

Accepted Answer

Japanese Interment

Question 26

Land given to Hitler at the Munich Conference.

Accepted Answer

Sudetenland

Question 27

Korematsu v. US (Choose 3)

Accepted Answer

Kept Japanese Americans in internment camps., Though Ex. Order 9066 was necessary to protect national security., Supported FDR's decision in Executive Order 9066

Question 28

Great Migration (Choose 3)

Accepted Answer

Blacks leaving the South due to discrimination., Mass movement of blacks from the south the north., Blacks moving north in search of jobs in munitions factories.

Question 29

Fascist military dictator of Japan

Accepted Answer

Tojo

Question 30

American territory taken over by Japan; where MacArthur was forced to leave.

Accepted Answer

Philippines

Question 31

What date did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?

Accepted Answer

December 7, 1941

Question 32

What event happened as a result of placing an oil embargo on Japan?

Accepted Answer

Japan bombed Pearl Habor (Hawaii)

Question 33

Who replaced Chamberlain as Prime Minister of Britain?

Accepted Answer

Churchill

Question 34

War Production Board

Accepted Answer

Converted factories to munitions factories.

Question 35

Nuremberg Laws (choose 2)

Accepted Answer

Laws that discriminated against the Jewish community in Germany., Anti-Semitic Laws

Question 36

Fascist leader of Italy

Accepted Answer

Mussolini

Question 37

Which group in the US supported American Isolationism during WWII?

Accepted Answer

America First Committee

Question 38

Why was Hitler's attack on Britain "Battle of Britain" not successful?

Accepted Answer

Radar

Question 39

Office of Price Administration

Accepted Answer

Regulated the costs of items and required rationing of goods

Question 40

Choose the two ways the gov't planned to help fund the war.

Accepted Answer

Raising income taxes., Selling war bonds

Question 41

All of the following are ways we began to help the Allied Powers while remainin neutral EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Nye Commission

Question 42

All of the following are true about blitzkrieg EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Strategy used to round up Jews to send them to concentration camp.

Question 43

Munich Conference (Choose 3)

Accepted Answer

Britain and France followed a policy of appeasement towards Htiler., Meeting between the leaders of the League of Nations and Hitler., Hitler was given the Sudetenland.

Question 44

Country invaded by Hitler that started the outbreak of WWII.

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 45

What date did Hitler invade Poland?

Accepted Answer

September 1, 1939

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