World War II Test

What event revealed how arms manufacturers influenced U.S. entry into WWI, encouraging isolationism?

• Lend-Lease Act

• Nye Committee Hearings

• Selective Service Act

• Neutrality Acts

The Neutrality Acts were designed to:

• Prevent U.S. involvement in future foreign wars

• Provide aid to Britain

• Strengthen the U.S. military

• Promote alliances with European powers

What did the Cash-and-Carry policy allow?

• Free trade with neutral nations

• U.S. lending of warships to Britain

• Selling arms if nations paid in cash and transported goods themselves

• Purchasing goods using war bonds

The Lend-Lease Act:

• Prohibited the sale of arms to warring nations

• Provided military aid to Allies without direct payment

• Led to the bombing of Pearl Harbor

• Created a peacetime draft

Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms speech promoted:

• American neutrality

• Freedom of speech, worship, want, and fear

• Victory in the Pacific

• Aid to Axis powers

The Atlantic Charter was an agreement between:

• Hitler and Mussolini

• Roosevelt and Churchill

• Roosevelt and Stalin

• Truman and MacArthur

What event forced the U.S. to abandon isolationism and declare war?

• German invasion of France

• Sinking of the Lusitania

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Zimmerman Telegram

After Pearl Harbor, who declared war on the United States?

• Japan and Soviet Union

• Germany and Italy

• France and Japan

• China and Germany

What was the purpose of the Selective Service Act of 1940?

• Recruit women into the military

• Begin a peacetime draft

• Raise taxes for war

• Provide job training

Which government agency managed propaganda during WWII?

• CIA

• War Production Board

• Office of War Information

• Department of the Interior