WWII Test Review

FDR's Quarantine Speech indicated that he 

• wanted to remain isolationist.
• felt compromise with dictators was the solution.
• was determined to halt totalitarian aggression. 
• was more concerned with the New Deal than world affairs.

What caused American people to support an isolationist policy prior to entering WWII? Hide answers

• cultural ties to Germany
• the large cost of World War. 
• empathy for Hitler’s racial issues
• leadership of FDR

Which group provided an indecipherable code for war communications?

• Navajo 
• Tuskegee Airmen
• Flying Tigers
• Eskimos

One way in which World War II differed from earlier wars was that –

• deliberate bombing of civilian populations 
• high casualties of infantry soldiers
• use of new weapons led to a stalemate in trenches
• large numbers of civilians were drafted into war.

Which of the following government organization’s was in charge of wartime propaganda?

• Office of Price Administration
• War Activities Commission
• Department of the Interior
• Office of War Information 

Agreement to give the Sudetenland to Germany is an example of which policy?

• Imperialism
• internationalism
• appeasement 
• preemption

What led directly to the development of atomic weapons?

• The New Mexico Project
• The Brooklyn Project
• The Manhattan Project 
• the invasion of Poland

Who led the Allied campaigns in Italy and North Africa?

• Dwight Eisenhower
• Douglas MacArthur
• George Marshall
• Omar Bradley

American and Filipino soldiers were force marched in which many died on the way was the ______. 

• Operation Torch
• Overlord invasion
• Kamikaze attack
• Bataan Death March

German military strategy did not include: 

• voiding a 2-front war
• utilizing “blitzkrieg.”
• bombing London.
• bringing the United States into the war .