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US History EOC
Review
WWII
1) In the 1930s, Congress attempted to
avoid the situations that led to United
States involvement in World War I by
a) enacting a peacetime draft law
b) passing a series of neutrality acts
c) authorizing the deportation of
American Communist Party
members
d) relocating Japanese Americans to
internment camps
2) What was one result of World War II?
a)
b)
c)
d)
the arms race ended
the Cold War ended
communism was eliminated
the Cold War Begins
3) Which term BEST describes the
diplomacy followed by some European
nations in their relations with Germany,
Italy, and Japan between 1931 and 1939?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Appeasement
non-aggression
Isolationism
containment
4) At the beginning of World War II, national
debate focused on whether the United
States should continue the Foreign policy
a)
b)
c)
d)
coexistence
containment
imperialism
isolationism
5) Which statement BEST explains the rise of
totalitarianism governments in Europe during the
1930s?
a) Many European nations were desperate for help in
recovering from the depression and saw leaders
like Hitler and Mussolini as their answer
b) There was no United Nations to prevent a
Communist takeover and as a result Joseph Stalin
and his Soviet regime came to dominate the
region
c) The philosophy of fascism was sure to spread
across war-ravaged Europe due to the heavy
infusion of jingoism in the post-Cold War era
d) Some people demonized democracy because the
United States was prospering in the 1930s while
every other country was languishing
6) In the cartoon, most of the “diseases” refer to the
a) Military dictatorships of the 1930s
b) Allied powers of World War II
c) Nations banned from the United Nations
after World War II
d) Communist bloc countries in the Cold war
7) Between 1934 and 1937, Congress passed
a series of neutrality acts that were
designed primarily to
a) strengthen the nation’s military
defenses
b) provide aid to other democratic
nations
c) create jobs for unemployed American
workers
d) avoid mistakes that had led to
American involvement in World War I
8) What was the intention of Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s Lend Lease proposal?
a) To give aid to German minorities stuck
behind enemy lines without officially
entering the war
b) To forgive the World War I debts of Great
Britain, Russia, and France and help the
allies without officially entering the war
c) To allow United States companies no right
to sell supplies to any Allied country
without officially entering the war
d) To provide supplies for the Allies to use
against the Germans without officially
entering the war
9) The policy of Cash and Carry, the
Destroyers for Naval Bases Deal, and
the Lend-Lease Act were all designed to
a)contribute to the success of the Axis
powers
b)relieve unemployment caused by
the Great Depression
c)aid the Allies without involving the
United States in war
d)guarantee a third term to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
10) In the 1944 case Korematsu v. United
States, the Supreme Court ruled that
wartime conditions justified the
a)use of women in military combat
b)ban against strikes by workers
c)limitations placed on civil liberties
d)reduction in the powers of the president
11) This telegram was
sent as a response to
a) start of World War II
b) attack on Pearl
Harbor
c) passage of a law
to ban Japanese
immigration
d) drafting of
Japanese
Americans into the
military
12) Which factor contributed to the
internment of Japanese Americans
during World War II?
a) labor shortages during the war
b) influence of racial prejudice
c) increased terrorist activities on the
West Coast
d) fear of loss of jobs to Japanese
workers
13) During World War II, many women
experienced a change in role in that they
a)
b)
c)
d)
served in military combat positions
worked in jobs formerly held by men
controlled most corporations
chaired several congressional
committees
14) The use of this card, issued by the federal
government, was intended to
a) help the automobile industry
b) support the troops in wartime
c) increase the use of gasoline
d) decrease the cost of automobiles
15) During World War II, the federal
government used rationing to
a) hold down prices of military weapons
b) increase educational benefits for
veterans
c) increase imports of scarce products
d) provide more resources for the war
effort
16) To help pay for World War II, the United
States government relied heavily on the
a) money borrowed from foreign
governments
b) sale of war bonds
c) sale of United States manufactured
goods to neutral nations
d) printing of additional paper money
17) Why did President Truman decide to
use the atomic bomb near the end of WWII?
a) The Japanese Empire had to be taken
out of the war in order for the Allies to
defeat Nazi Germany
b) Truman wanted to save the lives of US
soldiers who would have to invade
mainland Japan
c) The decision was an attempt to show US
military strength to communist China
d) Truman believed that the Allies could not
defeat Japan otherwise.
18) Which advertising campaign represents
the expanding role of women in the
workplace during World War II?
a)
b)
c)
d)
“Loose Lips Sink Ships”
“The Harvest is Plentiful”
“Rosie the Riveter”
“Sweetless, Meatless, Wheatless Days”
19) Shortly after entering World War II, the
United States began the Manhattan
Project to
a) work on the development of an atomic
bomb
b) increase economic production to meet
wartime demands
c) defend New York City against a nuclear
attack
d) recruit men for the military services
20) Convictions of war criminals by courts at
Tokyo and Nuremberg following World
War II showed that
a)the United Nations did not accepted
responsibility for international
peacekeeping
b)the League of Nations could successfully
enforce international law
c)government officials and military leaders
could be held accountable for their
actions
d)nations that start wars would be forced
to rebuild war-torn nations
21) What Alliance did Italy, Germany and
Japan belong to?
a. Axis
b. Allied
c. Rome-Berlin pack
d. Central Powers
21) Which description does not describe
Adolf Hitler?
a. Nazi
b. Military expansionist
c. Supporter of the treaty of Versailles
d. Wrote Mein Kampf
23) What day did President Roosevelt say
would go down in infamy?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Dec 7, 1940
Dec 11, 1940
Dec 7, 1941
Dec 11, 1941
24) Why did the Japanese Attack the United
States?
a) They wanted to dominate Asia
b) They wanted to rid themselves of the
embargo
c) They wanted to cripple the American
Navy
d) All of the above
27) What is Genocide, as practiced by the
Nazis?
a) The Broadcasting of anti-Semitic ideas
b) The abuse of a nation’s people by their
Gov’t
c) The deliberate extermination of a
specific group of people
d) All of the above
26) Why did Germany resent the Treaty of
Versailles?
a) They had to repay 32 Billion in war
reparations
b) They had to reduce their military
c) Germany wanted to reclaim lost land
d) All of the above
27) What event caused the official American
declaration of war and entrance into WWII?
a) German U-boats firing on American
merchant ships carrying arms across
ocean
b) Japanese kamikaze pilots bombed U.S.
islands in Pacific Indochina
c) Germany’s 1941 invasion of the Soviet
Union
d) Japan’s peacetime attack on the main
U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor in
Hawaii
28) World War II began with the invasion of?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Ethiopia
Russia
Britain
Poland
29) Which of the following is a result because
of the other three?
a) Six million Jews died in Nazi death
camps
b) The Nazis masterminded the Final
Solution
c) The Nuremberg trial were held
d) Jews were forced to were yellow stars
30) Who were the major targets of the “final
solution”?
a) Mr. Rimmer’s Students who failed his
class
b) Jews, gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses,
homosexuals, the disabled, the
terminally ill
c) U.S. and other Allied soldiers who
were fighting on the European front
d) German citizens who would not
cooperate with Nazi Party politics