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US History II - 1st M.P.
Perth Amboy High School
Benchmark Assessment
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United States History II
1st MP - Benchmark Assessment
Multiple Choice: Read the question carefully and select the choice that best answers the
question or statement.
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All of the following were main points of the The Treaty of Versaille, EXCEPT,
a. War-Guilt clause
b. Payment of reparations
c. Hitler needed to step down as leader
d. The League of Nations
2.
Which of the following best represents a policy of appeasement:
a. Declaring war against Germany because of the invasion of Poland.
b. Dropping an Atomic bomb to end the war.
c. Signing the Neutrality Act
d. Allowing Hitler to annex the Sudetenland to avoid a war.
3.
Which countries made up the Axis powers in World War II?
a. US, Britain, Italy, Japan
b. Germany, Italy, Russia
c. US, Britain, France, Russia
d. Germany, Italy, Japan
4.
Which countries made up the Allied powers in World War II?
a. US, Britain, Italy, Japan
b. Germany, Italy, Russia
c. US, Britain, France, Russia
d. Germany, Italy, Japan
5.
What is one of the main reasons Germany wanted an alliance with Japan?
a. Try and deter the US from entering the war
b. Hitler idolized Tojo.
c. Germany respected the Japanese dominance in the sea.
d. Italy would only join Hitler if he also added another country.
6.
Which of the following best describes American attitude towards events in Europe in
the early 1930’s to the mid 30’s
a. Wanted the US to stay out of European affairs.
b. Wanted Hitler to finally beat the English as retaliation for the Revolutionary
War.
c. Americans were eager to show our military dominace
d. Followed a policy aggressive militarism.
7.
Which of the following best reflects the cartoonist’s point of view toward this event?
a. Hitler’s promises are not worth much.
b. Hitler can be trusted to keep his word.
c. Appeasement is the way to deal with Hitler.
d. Keeping peace with Hitler is worth any price.
8.
Which of these allowed the United States to send “all aid short of war” to Britain
despite its status as a neutral nation early in World War II?
a. Atlantic Charter
b. Double V campaign
c. Lend-Lease Act
d. Selective Training and Service Act
9.
On December 7, 1941, President Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of war.
Which of these events led to this request?
a. Churchill’s desperate need for help in the Battle of Britain
b. Germany’s lightning war that ended with the fall of France
c. Stalin’s agreement to sign a nonaggression pact with Hitler
d. Japan’s surprise attack on a U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor
10.
What was Hitler’s reasoning for signing a non-aggression pact with Stalin?
a. Hitler did not want to start a war by fighting on two fronts.
b. Hitler believed in communism.
c. Hitler believed that Stalin was a true Nazi.
d. Hitler was afraid to fight Russia.
11.
Where did Roosevelt decide to open the US attack once joining the fight in WWII?
a. In France to help the Russia, by opening a second front.
b. In North Africa to help English troops.
c. Italy, because they were weak.
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d. All out bombing of Germany
12.
What was the strategy called that the US employed in the Pacific, in which they would
bypass a heavily defended island and then capture a nearby island that was not as well
defended.
a. Leapfrogging
b. Kamikaze strikes
c. Submarine warfare
d. Precision bombing
13.
Which government agency was set up in 1942 to oversee the conversion on peacetime
industry to war industry?
a. U.N – United Nations
b. WPB – War Production Board
c. WPA – Works Progress Administration
d. CCC – Civilian Conservation Corps
14.
How did the federal government try to curb public consumption of food and fuel
during World War II?
a. by establishing a system of rationing
b. by encouraging people to buy war bonds
c. by establishing a system of price controls
d. by encouraging people to plant victory gardens
15.
The Manhattan Project was,
a. A top-secret government program established to develop an atomic weapon.
b. A government project set up to establish how to develop areas in Manhattan.
c. The official name of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo.
d. The strategy used to beat Hitler in Europe.
16.
What was the main effect of Executive Order 9066?
a. the establishment of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
b. the evacuation of Japanese Americans to internment camps
c. the opening of centers for Jewish refugees in former army camps
d. the creation of the first African American combat unit in the army air corps
17.
How did President Roosevelt respond to A. Philip Randolph’s threat to organize a
protest march by African Americans on Washington, D.C., in 1941?
a. He agreed to desegregate the military if the march was called off.
b. He urged Congress to pass legislation banning racism in the workplace.
c.
d. He ordered National Guard troops to disperse any marchers who appeared.
e. He signed an executive order outlawing discrimination by defense contractors.
18.
Which of these groups was targeted by white mobs in the Zoot Suit Riots?
a. African American migrants
b. Jewish American servicemen
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c. Mexican American teenagers
d. German American enemy aliens
19.
Truman’s decision to drop the Atomic bomb was due to all of the following EXCEPT,
a. An invasion of Japan would produce enormous casualties.
b. The Japanese refused to surrender unconditionally even though they knew they
could not win the war.
c. The Japanese spirit of kamikaze.
d. Truman was afraid on losing the entire war to Japan.
20.
What was the result of using the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
a. The Japanese launched a counter attack in Hawaii
b. Japan surrendered.
c. The Soviet Union invaded Japan.
d. The US lost the war
21.
Which of these organizations was created after World War II to “reaffirm faith in
fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal
rights of men and women and of nations large and small”?
a. World Bank
b. United Nations
c. League of Nations
d. International Monetary Fund
22.
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in northern France.
What was this event called?
a. D-Day
b. V-E Day
c. Battle of the Bulge
d. Battle of the Atlantic
23.
What did Nazis decide was the “final solution” to the “Jewish question”?
a. deporting Jews to North Africa
b. confining Jews to urban ghettos
c. exterminating Jews in death camps
d. encouraging Jews to emigrate to the United States
24.
Which of these statements best describes how the Allies dealt with Japan after World
War II?
a. The Japanese islands were divided among the Allies to rule as mandates.
b. The Japanese were forced to make crippling reparations payments to the Allies.
c. The Allies helped restore the emperor to power as the constitutional ruler of
Japan.
d. The Allies helped Japan rebuild its economy and establish a democratic
government.
25.
Which of the following helped over 2 million U.S. veterans attend college after World
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War II?
a. World Bank
b. GI Bill of Rights
c. Manhattan Project
d. War Production Board
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1. Freedom of speech, freedom of fear, freedom of want, freedom of worship.
2. That everyone has a freedom of speech and that everyone was insprided by it.
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