Unit 13 Test APUSH

World War II lasted from

1939 to 1945

After Germany attacked Poland in September 1939

France and Britain declared war on Germany

Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the following American leaders had opposed entering into war EXCEPT

Henry L. Stimson

Which of the following was NOT one of Roosevelt's four freedoms?

Freedom from oppression

Following Germany's occupation of Poland, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France, President Roosevelt

Created the destroyers for bases deal and then the Lend-Lease Act

Among other reasons, U.S. attempts to seek peace with Japan were hampered because

The U.S. continued to provide military support for China

The Lend-Lease Act

helped end the Great Depression

A Japanese alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy came about because

A new younger generation of Japanese leades had taken control of the national government

In the United States resistance to sending support to Britain stemmed from all the following EXCEPT

Economists predicted that the Great Depression would be getting worse

The period from September 1939 to April 1940 was known as the "Phony War" because

There was little fighting after the German advance into Poland

Teh Great Depression ended in 1940-1941 because

Military preparations increase government spending and virtually ended unemployment

During the course of World War II

16 million Americans served in the armed forces and over 405,399 died in combat

Among other Japanese targets of attack within hours of the attack on Pearl Harbor were

The Aleutian Islands off Alaska

The Battle of Midway Island was significant because

Japanese forces lost four of their six aircraft carriers and its planes and pilots

Among those at first exempted from teh draft were

Married men

Fewer deferments and exemptions were granted by draft boards in southern states because

Board members were reluctant to draft black men

Because so many men were fighting in the war, in the United States

More than 6 million women entered the workforce

In summer of 1942 German Admiral Donitz was confident and American and British leaders fearful because

German submarines were hitting shipping in the north Atlantic very hard

During Wold War II, American women

Were drafted for wartime industrial work

Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802 created the Fair Employment Practices Committee which

Barred discrimination by race, creed, color or national origin in war industries

Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 directed the War Department to

Create military areas from which any and all person may be excluded

The Japanese internment ended following the end of World War II, but first

Internees learned their former homes and businesses were no longer theirs

Who said, "The most important things in this war are machines"?

Joseph Stalin

The United States had each of the following advantages during World War II EXCEPT

It had a large, well-trained military force trained and was prepared for war

The Liberty Ships manufactured for the war effort were noted for

The speed with which they could be built

Which of the following economic problems did the United States face during World War II?

Inflation and rising costs

When the first reports of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps reached the United States

Few people took them seriously

For the United States, in preparing to wage the war, one positive outcome of the Great Depression was

Nearly half the cation's factories were idle

Which of the following gave American manufacturers an advantage over their counterparts in Germany?

Americans made fewer models of the same item, settled for lower standards of precision and quality, but they produced in much greater volume

During World War II, the U.S. War Production Board

Prohibited the manufacture of automobiles for private use

Who reported that Germany's manufacturing capability was "outmoded, tradition-bound, and arthritic"?

Albert Speer

The following were manufacturers of U.S. warplanes EXCEPT

Kaiser

In the "Little Steel agreement" the National War Labor Board

Limited wage increases at the Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown, and Inland Steel companies

For the United States, the cost of fighting World War II was

Covered by taxes, loans, and E bonds

In January 1943, President Roosevelt

Traveled to North Africa to meet with Churchill

At their conference in Casablanca, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed

To accept only unconditional surrender from Germany, Japan, and Italy

The Allied attack on "Fortress Europe" began

in Sicily

At their meeting in Cairo, Roosevelt tried to persuade Churchill to

Give up British colonies in India and Burma

General Dwight D. Eisenhower led the D-Day invasion because

Roosevelt personally chose him

The Nazi death camps

Killed more than 12 million people during the course of the war

The Battle of the Bulge was significant because

it allowed the U.S. forces to enter Germany

The first Allied troops to enter Berlin were

Russian

During the 1944 election in the United States, which of the following occurred?

Harry S. Truman replaced Henry A. Wallace as Roosevelt's vice presidential running mate

The war in the Pacific was especially brutal for U.S. forces because

Japanese soldiers lived by a code that prohibited surrender

The secret Manhattan Project

Led to the development of the atomic bomb

On August 6, 1945, when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

140,000 people were killed by the blast, burns and the radiation