WWII Unit Practice Quiz

The American home front in the Second World War is best described as

economically invigorated by military spending

American participation in the Second World War had which of the following major effects on the home front?

A movement of women into factory work

Which of the following is true of American women during the Second World War?

Those who took industrial jobs learned new skills and earned better pay than in jobs previously open to them.

All of the following have been cited as reasons for the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 EXCEPT the need to

block a planned Japanese invasion of the United States

During the Second World War, Japanese Americans were relocated because of

fear of possible subversive activity against the war effort

The Supreme Court ruling in *Korematsu v. United States* upheld the constitutionality of

the internment of Japanese Americans as a wartime necessity

Which of the following best explains United States foreign policy between the First World War and the Second World War?

The United States followed an isolationist policy in order to avoid becoming involved in another conflict abroad.

Which of the following best explains the factor that prompted United States involvement in military actions during the Second World War?

Japan conducted a surprise attack on a United States military base

The Rosie the Riveter campaign during the Second World War encouraged women to

enter the labor force

The purpose of the Lend-Lease Act was to

provide military supplies to the Allies

Which of the following contributed most to the trend in African American migration from the South between 1940 and 1949?

The availability of industrial employment during the Second World War

Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast of the United States in early 1942 were sent to internment camps on the alleged grounds that they

were a potential threat to the security of the United States

Which of the following messages did the United States government most likely intend to impart in the Second World War poster pictured above?

Encouragement of greater acceptance of African American workers in wartime industrial jobs

Which of the following ways best explains how the United States attempted to influence the outside world following the conclusion of the First World War?

It used trade and investment in order to maintain international connections.

Which of the following best describes the experience of Americans of Japanese descent during the Second World War?

They were forced from their homes and businesses on the West Coast into detention camps.

“Since the 1890s, despite the abolition of slavery and the three Reconstruction amendments to the Constitution, Jim Crow segregation pervaded every aspect of American society. The military was no exception. Following the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, black men who volunteered for duty or were drafted were relegated to segregated divisions and combat support roles, such as cook, quartermaster, and grave digger. The military was as segregated as the Deep South.

“It was difficult for African Americans not to see the hypocrisy between conditions at home and the noble war aims that President Franklin Roosevelt articulated in his famous ‘Four Freedoms’ speech on January 6, 1941. And because of the gap between the promise and the performance of American freedom when it came to race relations, many black people frankly felt alienated from the war effort.

“Despite this discrimination, more than 2.5 million African Americans registered for the draft when World War II began; 1 million served. A key voice in the war effort was the *Pittsburgh Courier*, the nation’s most widely read African-American newspaper. Two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the *Courier* launched a national campaign that urged black people to give their all for the war effort, while at the same time calling on the government to do all it could to make the rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence and the equal rights amendments to the Constitution real for every citizen, regardless of race. In honor of the battle against enemies from without and within, they called it the Double V campaign.”

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., historian, “How Was Black Support Enlisted for World War II, When the Armed Services Were Segregated?,” 2017

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Which of the following best explains a result of the developments described in the excerpt?

New employment opportunities opened up for African Americans in industrial and defense industries.

Conscription policies in the First and Second World Wars differed significantly in that in the Second World War

the draft began before the United States entered the conflict.