WWII Review

The United States began to emerge from the Great Depression as a result of

• Freezing rent and prices

• Producing goods for the Allied Forces

• Increasing production of consumer goods

• Allocating raw materials

The goal of the Manhattan Project was to

• Develop an atomic bomb

• Devise a strategy for invading Japan

• Build eight new aircraft carriers

• Defend New York City from submarine attacks

An important strategy used by German forces in Europe was

• Island Hopping

• Kamikaze Attacks

• Blitzkrieg

• The Bataan Death March

The Germans were finally halted in their advance into the Soviet Union at

• The Battle of the Bulge

• The Battle of Midway

• The Battle of Stalingrad

• Normandy

Which of these groups were NOT taken to concentration camps?

• Jews

• Aryans

• Communists

• Homosexuals

When the League of Nations let Hitler keep some of the land he took over as long as he promised not to expand any farther, this was called:

• The Selective Service Act

• Appeasement

• Blitzkrieg

• Aggression

Which of the following is NOT a form of totalitarianism?

• Dictatorship

• Nazism

• Communism

• Democracy

At the time, which of the following was NOT an official reason given for Japanese Internment?

• Many Japanese could be spies for the Japanese Empire

• The Japanese living in California live too close to the Japanese mainland

• Americans had just been prejudiced and needed a reason to better segregate the Japanese

• The Japanese live too close to America's military bases

The main Axis powers of WWII consisted of:

• Germany, Japan, Italy

• Germany, Soviet Union, Italy

• Germany, Soviet Union, France

• Germany, Japan, France

What was the Lend-Lease Act?

• A statement of war goals created by Roosevelt and Churchill

• A non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union

• A policy allowing the President to provide arms to foreign allies

• An order to shoot German U-boats on sight