World War II Halfway Point Quiz

What caused the United States to enter WWII?

• Pearl Harbor

• Germany invaded Poland

• Mussolini came to power in Italy

• Unrestricted submarine warfare

How did the United States support the Allies prior to declaring war on the Axis powers? (Hint: there are MULTIPLE correct answers).

• Refusing to sell oil, steel, and iron to the Axis countries

• Lend-lease

• Cash and carry

• by being the 'arsenal of democracy'

President Roosevelt viewed the war as ​ (a)   and democracy versus ​ (b)   .

• liberty
• totalitarianism
• consumerism
• punctualism

The Allies forced Germany to fight a war ​ (a)   : against the ​ (b)   in the East, and against Britain, France and the US ​ (c)  

• on two fronts
• Soviet Union
• in the West

Match the following

• women served in the military

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• transmitted secret messages using their native language

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• highly decorated African-American flying unit

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• civilians got supplies after the military got what it needed

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​ (a)   placed Japanese-Americans in internment camps.

• Executive Order 9066
• 22nd Amendment
• Operation Overlord
• The French Resistance

Grow your own food so commercially grown food can be shipped to the soldiers.

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On ​ (a)   , Japan bombed the US military base at ​ (b)   . This event ​ (c)  

• December 7, 1941
• Pearl Harbor
• caused the US to enter World War II
• September 1, 1939
• Warsaw, Poland
• started World War II
• Poland

Match the following

• 100,000 Allied soldiers land on the coast of Normandy

• Operation Torch

• Soviet soldiers capture the Nazi capital

• Battle of the Bulge

• Germany's last offensive campaign in the West

• D-Day (Operation Overlord)

• Allied campaign in North Africa

• Fall of Berlin

Britain and France allow Germany to annex Austria and the Sudetenland part of Czechoslovakia in an effort to prevent another world war.

• cash and carry

• lend-lease

• appeasement

• embargo