US History - Unit 11 World War II - 2024

This program allowed the United States to support Great Britain's War effort against Germany without entering WWII

• Neutrality Acts

• The Lend-Lease Program

• League of Nations

• The New Deal

Who was the leader of Japan during WWII?

• Hideki Tojo

• Benny Mussolini

• Adolf Hitler

• Josef Stalin

The major American Pacific naval base destroyed in a Japanese surprise attack on December 7, 1941 was

• Midway Island

• Wake Island

• Iwo Jima

• Pearl Harbor

Who made up the Axis powers?

• Germany, Great Britain, France

• United States, U.S.S.R., France

• Germany, Italy, Japan

• Italy, France, Russia

What was the Manhattan Project?

• The plan to crash Japanese suicide planes into Allied ships

• The plan to develop the atomic bomb

• The historic meeting of the “Big Three”

• The training of the Navajo code talkers

Which set of events is correctly sequenced in chronological order?

• The United States is attacked at Pearl Harbor, Hitler invades Poland, Nazism begins in Germany, France surrenders to Germany

• Nazism begins in Germany, Hitler invades Poland, France surrenders to Germany, The United States is attacked at Pearl Harbor

• Nazism begins in Germany, Hitler invades Poland, The United States is attacked at Pearl Harbor, France surrenders to Germany

• France surrenders to Germany, Hitler invades Poland, Nazism begins in Germany, The United States is attacked at Pearl Harbor

Which event was the immediate cause for U.S. entry into the Second World War?

• The Japanese army attacking China

• The German army moving into Belgium

• The German air force bombing Great Britain

• The Japanese navy attacking Pearl Harbor

How did the United States contribute to the Second World War prior to officially declaring war?

• Negotiating peace treaties between hostile European powers

• Fighting secretly with the underground French resistance movement

• Providing arms and ships to friendly European nations fighting Germany

• Expanding domination over the Central Asian nations that supported Japan

How did the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt better prepare the United States for the Second World War?

• His embargo against Germany led to fewer losses of transit ships.

• His development of the United Nations helped to plan the post-war world.

• His use of the Lend-Lease Act led many American industries to convert to military production.

• His personal friendship with Germany's Hitler delayed the outbreak of war, allowing the American military to create a large standing army.

Which reason did the federal government give for placing Japanese Americans in internment camps during the Second World War?

• A plan for Japanese American scientists to create an atomic weapon

• A fear Japanese Americans may support forces fighting the United States

• A need to better manage naturalization services for Japanese American immigrants

• A request by the Japanese government to protect Japanese Americans from retaliation