U.S History WWII Test

All are long-term causes of WWII EXCEPT…

Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939.

The immediate event that started WWII was

Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939.

Although officially neutral, the US increasingly helped Britain through actions like.

the Lend-Lease Act.

The US began to place economic sanctions on Japan after they invaded which of our allies?

China

"A date which will live in infamy" was President Roosevelt's description of the

bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan.

Japanese-Americans who lived on the West Coast were subjected to during the war.

Internment

Who issued Executive Order 9066 leading to the internment of Japanese-Americans?

FDR

Thousands of African-Americans served bravely in a WWII flight crew known as

Tuskegee Airmen

United States citizens at home assisted the war effort in all of the following ways except

Giving up their homes to war refugees from Europe.

The shift to wartime economy for the war in Asia and Europe was possible because of the working relationship between

Government and industry

What was the Double V campaign?

A campaign for victory in Europe and victory over racial discrimination at home during World War II.

American women contributed to the war effort by:

all of the above

The justification given for dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was:

To force Japan to surrender and end World War II quickly

FDR helped Jewish refugees by:

establishing the War Refugee Board

FDR

President of the U.S

After Pearl Harbor, he supervised transition to a war time economy

Active in planning allied war strategy against Germany and Japan

Eisenhower

General

Supreme Commander of all Allied forces in Europe

George S Patton

General

Led operation torch and invasion of North Africa

Douglas MacArthur

Supreme commander of U.S forces in the Pacific

Winston Churchill

Warned about Nazi Germany prior to WWII

English Prime Minister

Joseph Stalin

Man of steel

Communist

Benito Mussolini

II Duce

Facist Party

Promises to revive economy

Adolf Hitler

Der Fuhrer

Nazi party and use jews as scapegoats published his book Mein Kampi

German Invasion of Poland

September 1939

Britian and France declare war on germany

The Fall of France

May 1940

Hitler’s army moves through the ardennes and around the Maginot Line

Reach france’s northern coast in 10 days & france surrenders

Miracle Dunkirk

Spring 1940

Allied forces pushed to the beackes at Dunkirk

French and British troops rescued by 850 British Ships

Battle of Britian

Summer of 1940 - May 1941

German Luftwaffe (air force) makes nightly bomb raids over Geat Britian

New tech (enrigma radar) allow british RAF to hold off

Atlantic Wall

1942-1945

Hitler had massive defenses built along Europe’s western coast against invasion

D-Day

massive invasion of Europe planned by Eisenhower

Normany, France

Battle of Midway

Targeted the island to get whole u.s fleet

U.S successful attack

Turninh point of the war in pacific

Battle of Guadalcanal

August 1942 - Feb 1943

Allies attacked Japanese airbase in Solomon Islands

24000 dead

Battle of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

feb-june 1945

Brutal fighting over small islands close to japan

high casualties