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United States History II
Mid-Term Exam Review
1. Explain the Nazi government during World War
They abolished civil liberties, racist, nationalist, eliminated opposition, military dictatorship
2. What caused Great Britain and France declare war on Germany?
They invaded Sudetenland
3. Explain the purpose of the Lend Lease Act.
America is the arsenal of democracy, weapons and material and resources . To send supply and
ammunition. All aid short of war
4. Explain the system the federal government used to curb public consumption during World
War II.
Rationing
5. Explain the main effect of Executive Order 9066.
Every Asian were sent to internment camps
6. Explain the Zoot Suit Riots and what group of people it affected.
Mexican teenagers.
7. What was President Roosevelt’s responds to A. Philip Randolph’s threat of a protest march in
Washington D. C.?
He signed an order to not allow discrimination. Saying no discrimination in hiring.
8. Name the Allied powers and Axis powers.
United States France and Great Britain, and the axis were Germany Italy and Japan.
9. What was the Nazi’s “final solution”?
They wanted to exterminate the Jews.
10. What was the Allies Pacific Theater military operation called by the allies in the Pacific
Theater?
Leap frogging or island hopping.
11. What was the major reason Japan surrendered on
August 14, 1945?
The Atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
12. Why and when was the United Nation organized?
To reform the four freedoms.
13. How was Japan dealt with after World War II?
We established a democratic form of government. To build them up Un conditional surrender
14. Explain the purpose of the G. I. Bill.
They allowed loans, education to the veterans.
15. After the World War II was over what happened to all the women that were working in war
industries?
They put their apron’s on and went back home. They accepted lower paying jobs
16. What effect did the end of World War II have on the American economy?
The economy boomed with The Great Depression We become a world power
17. What event moved President Roosevelt to ask Congress for a declaration of war?
Pearl Harbor
18Where did President Roosevelt decide to start the U.S. attack in the European Theater?
In northern Africa
19. What was the Manhattan Project during World War II?
The creation of the Atomic Bomb.
20. Explain the reasons President Truman decided to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan.
Major casualties, and they would not surrender they were “fanatical”
21. What and where did D-Day occur?
In Normandy in the beaches of France in 1944
22. What were the primary goals of Joseph Stalin during the negotiations with Britain and the
United States at Yalta and Potsdam?
He needed to create a buffer zone.
23. Why did Soviet leaders reject Bernard Baruch’s proposal to ban development of nuclear
weapons?
For their own defensive purposes.
24. What is the Truman Doctrine? Expalin.
25. What was the main purpose of the Marshall Plan?
To provide aid to help rebuild Europe and prevent the spread of communism.
26. Explain the outcome of the Korean War.
It split the country into south and north.
27. What was the United States response to the Berlin Blockade in 1948?
The Marshall Plan. We airlifted supplies into Berlin. The Berlin Airlift
28. Why was NATO formed?
To create a buffer between Russia and the west.
29. Explain McCarthyism.
Radical scarring of the American public
30. Who was Alger Hiss?
He was a spy served, accused of spying with the soviet union
31. How did the United states emerge out of World War II?
We become a world power.
32. What was the Rosenberg trial about?
Spies of Americans that were put to death, were convicted of passing atomic bomb secrets
33. What did the U.S. Congress authorize construction of for travel purposes in 1956?
The interstate highway system
34. The United States ‘ response to the growing crisis in Europe changed throughout the 1930’s
and up to the U.S. entry into the war in 1941. What were these responses, which
demonstrated our position.
Lend Lease act all aid short of war means we’ll to anything we can to beat the Germans. One of the
major responses were the four freedoms. Fire sight chats
35. Give reasons for or against Truman decision to drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan.
Wanted to avoid American casualties.
Because they had an “emperor” they were “finatical” we had to
36. Explain all the containment strategies the United States applied to Latin America, North Africa
and Asia during the Cold War.
The Truman doctrine , Marshall plan
37. How did containment of communism affect life in America during the early years of the Cold
War?
The Hollywood blacklist, if you were communist you were thrown out the country , people were
afraid that America would become socialist communist The red scare ,McCarthyism
38. What were the goals of the United States during the Cold War?,
To contain communism. To deplete the spread of communist ideology.