ch 26 quiz

The U.S. Pacific fleet was attacked and effectively destroyed in a surprise attack at Midway

False

Japanese American citizens were also known as nisei and, if they lived on the West Coast, were confined in interment camps during the war.

True

Allied forces finally opened a second front against Germany during the ____invasion on June 6, 1944

Normandy

The neutrality acts of the 1930s was based on the assumption that the United States could keep out of the war by

Banning arms sales to countries at war

The earliest fascist aggression too place when

Italy attacked and captured Ethiopia

Great Britain and France declared war on Germany because of which action.

Germany attacks on neighboring Poland

The____ were a series of congressional hearings conducted from 1934 to 1936 that symbolized americas commitment to isolationism

Bye committee hearings

The war aims of the allies were articulated before u.s entry into war in the so called Atlantic charter. This document included all of the following except

A condemnation of nazism

The harnessing of atomic energy meant no one in the world , even in the United States was safe anymore

True

The military alliance between Germany, Japan, and Italy was known as the

Axis powers

What agreement was made at Munich in 1938 between Great Britain, France and Germany

To allow Germany to take a portion of Czechoslovakia

The 1941 agreement between Hilter and Stalin surprised the world because it revealed that the two agreed to divid Eastern Europe

True

The 1941 agreement between FDR and ChurchI’ll stat their war aims which included economic cooperation between the U.S and Britain was the Atlantic charter

True

Which of the following pairs is INCORRECT in identifying war time leaders ?

Benito mussol~Japan

Most fundamentally over what did internationalists and isolationist disagree?

Wheather war could prevented by collective security

According to the text the western allies were willing to leave hitler in power if he could help contain the spread of Soviet communism across Eastern Europe

False

Following the out break of war and nazi success in Western Europe, Roosevelt convinced congress to pass the ___ in 1941

Lend lease act

The British prime minister Winston Churchill vision for the post war world

Stressed the balance of power to check the soviets and resisted ending colonial empires

The U.S. military operational codename for producing an atomic weapon was the manhattan project

True

Which of the following was not a military turning point of World War Two

The battle of Gettysburg