USHC Unit 7 Study Guide
*Japanese attack on the USS Panay in 1937 *German attack on the USS Kearny and the sinking of the USS Reuben James in 1941 *The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 This list of notes would be of GREATEST value to a student writing a research report titled
"Causes of American Entry into World War II."
What part of the document makes it clear that the United States supports the formation of the state of Israel?
"The United States recognizes"
*Neutrality Acts (1935-1939) *Cash and Carry Policy (September 1939) *Lend-Lease Act (March 1941)
"World War II: From Isolationism to involvement"
By the time the United States entered World War II, it had already been providing aid to areas threatened by Axis powers. What area on the map received the MOST aid from the U.S. prior to 1942?
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What area on the map represents the area known as Ground Zero in World War II?
4
The cartoon is referencing what situation of the 1930s?
Appeasement
Approximately how many non Jewish civilians were killed during the Holocaust?
At least five million
According to the map, what area would have received the most amount of aid in under the Lend-Lease Act?
Britain
The Allied assault on German-occupied France in June of 1944 is known as
D-Day.
What was a major argument against Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" in his claim that the U.S. should review its isolationist policies?
Defending the "Four Freedoms" was not a justification of war.
What is an excuse used by the United States after World War II for not stopping the Holocaust immediately?
Due to the isolated locations of most of the camps, military forces could not reach the death camps immediately.
What statement BEST describes the treatment of people of German, Italian, and Japanese ancestry who were living in the United States during World War II?
Each were subject to possible internment, though very few Italians Americans were detained.
What played a major role in the spread of both communism and fascism in Europe in between the World Wars?
Economic hardship created by the Great Depression.
In the diary entry from 1941, Joseph Goebbels expresses his belief that one of the motivating factors behind the Holocaust was that
European Jews were responsible for causing the Second World War.
Although the text of the Executive Order expresses Roosevelt's disdain for discrimination, one of his later orders resulted in one of the most discriminatory policies in U.S. history. What order contradicts FDR's statements about "race, creed, color, or national origin"?
Executive Order 9066, which relocated Japanese Americans to internment camps
How did World War II begin in Europe?
Germany's invasion of Poland
What event would have FIRST caused the United States to begin reversing its Neutrality Acts in the early stages of World War II?
Germany's invasion of Poland
Why did President Harry Truman decide to hit the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with two atomic bombs in 1945?
He hoped to prevent a ground invasion of Japan and save the lives of American soldiers.
What is the most accurate summary of the poster from World War II?
Increased industrial output can help defeat the Axis powers.
What are the sites located on the map?
Internment camps for Japanese during World War II
What was the immediate effect of the United States' use of atomic weapons in August, 1945?
It brought about the unconditional surrender of Japan and ended the Second World War.
What is the MOST accurate description of the War Production Board (1942-1945)?
It controlled much of the American economy during World War II.
What event lead to Truman's final decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan?
Japan's dismissal of the Potsdam Declaration
During World War II, what group was forced to uproot and move to American relocation centers?
Japanese Americans
Most of the people in the internment camps in the United States during World War II were
Japanese-Americans.
What statement about the Holocaust is TRUE?
Jews were the main targets of the Nazis.
What case restricted Japanese Americans' rights during World War II by placing them in internment camps?
Korematsu v. US
*November 1938 *Vandalism of Jewish Businesses *Destruction of synagogues *Arrest of over 20,000 Jewish people All of these are associated with
Kristallnacht.
Fearing an erosion of American sovereignty, the U.S. Senate was unwilling to enter this international peace-keeping organization in the 1920s.
League of Nations.
What lists the events of World War II in correct chronological order?
Lend-Lease --> Pearl Harbor --> D-Day --> the atomic bomb
In the Spring of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law a bill which allowed him to sell, loan, or give war material to countries for their defense against Axis forces. This bill was known as the
Lend-Lease Act.
What statement BEST describes the situation of Japanese-Americans in World War II?
Most were denied their freedom and sent to "internment camps."
What statement BEST describes the demographic trend of the United States during the early 1940s?
People moved from rural to urban areas to find industrial work.
What U.S. President ordered persons of Japanese ancestry to be relocated from their homes on the west coast of the United States in early-1942?
Roosevelt
Diplomatically, President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb in Japan may have been partially motivated by his desire to limit the involvement of what country of in the Pacific War?
Soviet Union
What agreement, signed by the United States and several other nations in 1928, renounced aggressive war and prohibited the use of war as an instrument of national policy except in matters of self-defense?
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
What event resulted in death sentences for 12 Nazi war criminals and prison sentences for 8 others?
The Nuremberg Trials
What World War II government agency was created to achieve Executive Order 9347?
The Office of War Mobilization
Based on your knowledge of America's homefront during World War II and the author's statement about his father, what do you think MOST likely happened to the Shmitz Family?
The Shmitz family was detained and sent to an internment camp because they were perceived as a potential threat to national security.
The letter is describing the reaction to what?
The discovery of the concentration camps when the Allied forces begin liberating people from Nazi control.
Prior to the dropping of the atomic bombs, what statement BEST expresses why the Japanese were unwilling to accept the surrender terms offered by Truman and the Allies?
The terms failed to clarify the fate of the emperor.
The decision to use atomic weapons to end World War II was made by President Harry S. Truman, even though he was aware of the high number of civilian casualties that Japan would suffer. What evidence offers the best support for his decision to use the weapons?
The war would end almost immediately, with the least number of American casualties possible.
Why might have many U.S. Congressmen disliked Franklin D. Roosevelt's Quarantine Speech of 1937?
They feared it would lead to the United States' involvement in World War II.
How did MOST American businesses attempt to deal with the labor shortages that potentially affected their businesses?
They hired increased numbers of women and African Americans.
What did Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union have in common during the World War II era?
They were all totalitarian states.
Based on the table, what can you infer about Truman's goal for the nuclear attack on Japan?
Truman wanted to disrupt Japan's ability to wage war.
The Postdam Conference of 1945 marked the beginning of diplomatic conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union because
Truman was suspicious of Stalin's actions in eastern Europe.
The "Manhattan Project" was the code name for the
U.S. plans to make an atomic bomb.
The darkened area in the map shows one of the nations which joined the United States in the Normandy Invasion of 1944. This nation is (the)
United Kingdom
What event occurred LAST?
United States drops the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The image shows the "Big Three" leaders meeting at Yalta in February 1945, where they continued making plans that would eventually lead to the United Nations. The image BEST demonstrated what idea about US involvement in planning the United Nations?
United States leaders were crucial to the planning of the United Nations.
According to the chart, what should come next chronologically?
V.E. Day
*Annexation of Czechoslovakia *Non-Aggression Pact *Invasion of Poland *Blitzkrieg This list BEST summarizes events that led to the start of
World War II.
How did the German and Japanese governments MOST LIKELY view America's passing of the Lend-Lease Act?
as the United States moving away from isolationist policies
The city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee contributed to the World War II effort by
being part of a research development site for the atomic bomb.
At the Bermuda Conference in 1943, the United States and Great Britain made what decision regarding the issue of Jewish refugees from Europe?
both countries agreed to open a refugee camp in North Africa and that Hitler must be defeated
The excerpt is most directly related to what?
concerns regarding discrimination against African-Americans in national defense industries
What is the point of view of the poster from 1943?
cooperation by all will result in American World War II victory
In Hirabayashi v. the United States, the United States Supreme Court held that
curfews for people of Japanese descent were NOT a violation of their constitutional rights.
During World War II, a widely adopted means of solving labor shortage problems in U.S. industry was to
employ women.
The purpose of the poster seen here was to
encourage citizens to aid the government in raising funds for war.
The ending of World War II occurred
first in Europe in May of 1945 and next in Asia in August of 1945.
What was on of the "Four Freedoms" adopted by the allies in World War II?
freedom of speech
The World War II poster is suggesting that
freedom of speech might have its limits in times of war.
What is the word coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1943 and means "the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group?"
genocide
During the decades between World War I and World War II, American foreign policy was characterized by
increased isolationism as the United States focused on domestic issues instead of involvement in international affairs.
President Truman decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945 because
it would prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths that an invasion of Japan would case.
The cartoon is suggesting that the League of Nations would
limit the United States' sovereign powers.
During World War II, conferences such as those held in Tehran, Yatta, and Potsdam demonstrated that
nations with different political ideologies could cooperate to defeat a common foe.
Executive Order 9066, issued by FDR in 1941, dealt with the issue of
ordering Japanese-Americans along the west coast to report to internment camps.
What is the BEST example of Roosevelt's goals of providing for an "all-inclusive national defense" and supporting the "resolute peoples, everywhere, who are resisting aggression"?
passage of the Selective Service and Training Act of 1940 and the Lend-Lease Act of 1941
During World War II, farmers were encouraged to grow large amounts of WHAT oil-producing crop to support the war effort?
peanuts
The purpose of the declaration by President Roosevelt was to
prevent Japanese spies from causing harm to the United States.
While World War II raged outside of the United States, attempts were made in the U.S. to support the war effort by
rationing consumer goods such as food and gas.
What BEST describes the official statue of African Americans in the United States during World War I?
separate but equal
The rationing of tires shown in the photograph is MOST likely to be caused by
shortages caused by World War II.
People who agreed with the provisions of this Executive Order would most likely have supported what?
the "Double V" campaign which encouraged African Americans to participate in winning the war abroad, while simultaneously fighting for their civil rights at home
What World War II event is MOST closely related to Goebbels' statement?
the "Final Solution"
What famous World War II unit, made up entirely of Japanese-Americans, bear the distinction of being the most highly decorated military unit in American history?
the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
A major factor in America's isolationist stance following World War I was negative public opinion over the number of American casualties suffered in the war. What domestic issue added to America's stance of isolationism in the decades before World War II?
the Great Depression
The passage is taken from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), which was created shortly after and in response to
the Holocaust.
The United States became involved in World War II primarily because of events in
the Pacific.
At this 1945 conference Harry Truman, Clement Attlee, and Joseph Stalin met to discuss how to administer punishment to Germany following her unconditional surrender.
the Potsdam Conference
At this 1943 conference, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin developed a strategic plan to defeat Nazi Germany and her allies.
the Tehran Conference
One significant result of the perspective described in Executive Order 8802 was
the creation of the Fair Employment Practices Committee.
What event occurred in 1945?
the death of President Franklin Roosevelt
What was a result of American involvement in World War II?
the end of the Great Depression
The speech by President Franklin Roosevelt was directed at what?
the expansion of Germany, Italy, and Japan
What event most directly contributes to the national policy as proposed by Roosevelt in his State of the Union Address?
the fall of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands and the Battle of Britain
During World War II, security concerns in the United States prompted
the internment of the Japanese.
What issue was discussed by these leads at the Yalta Conference?
the occupation of Germany
The law, passed in March of 1941, would have been MOST likely to directly result in what situation?
the shipment of naval destroyers to the British Navy
Why were the "Code Talkers" important in American history?
their Navajo language was used to relay messages in the Pacific during World War II
Why were the Nuremburg Trials held from 1945 to 1946?
to prosecute former Nazi officials for their roles in the Holocaust
When war erupted in Europe in 1939, the response of the United States was
to remain neutral.
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, United States increased defense expenditures, instituted the peacetime draft, and passed the Lend-Lease Act, indicating that the government
was concerned about growing German domination of Europe.
Franklin Roosevelt's policies of "Cash and Carry" and "Lend-Lease"
were designed to supply Great Britain and other Allied nations with war material.
The poster makes reference to
women contributing to the labor force during World War II.
During World War II the Federal Government allocated millions of dollars for child care programs throughout the United States because
women were working in factories and needed help caring for their children.
The Neutrality Acts (1936-1939) held that the United States
would not sell war material nor give loans to any nation at war.
