WW2 Test Review

The US rate of aircraft production from 1940 to 1942 best reflects...

Congressional approval of the Neutrality Act of 1939.

Which decision did President Truman make that most significantly altered the course of the war?

Dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Why did Adolf Hitler oppose communism?

He saw it as a threat to German ethnic solidarity

"Hitler is a man of simple tastes, a vegitarian for health reasons, a non-smoker and teetotaler. Possesed of extraordinary vitality, four hours' sleep and twenty hours' work makes up his normal working day... As a speaker, Hitler exercises astonishing sway over a German audience, presumably because public speaking is an unknown art in Germany. His speeches are practically repetitions of a few simple main theses, in the course of which platitudes are uttered with such extraordinary emphasis that an unsophisticated audience mistakes them for newly minted aphorisms. He has sized up the German audience during his fifteen years of apprenticeship with astonishing accuracy. This and an undeniable political instinct has brought him to the top of the tree." ~Short description of Adolf Hitler prepared by the British Embassy in Berlin, January 1937 According to the author of this text, which characteristics led to Hitler's political success.

His ability to communicate with the public

Why was the German strategy of "blitzkrieg" so successful?

It relied on rapid, heavily armed forces that quickly penetrated deep into enemy territory.

Why did the US presence in Guam and the Philippines prior to the war create tension between Japan and America?

It threatened Japan's ability to establish itself as the most powerful nation in the region.

This map best shows the Japanese ability to...

Launch an attack on Pearl Harbor

How did World War II change the employment situation for women?

More women were able to find in manufacturing and other fields not traditionally considered to be "women's work".

"When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease... War is a contagion, whether it be declared or undeclared. It can and golf states in peoples remote from the original scene of hostilities. We are determined to keep out of war, yet we cannot and share ourselves against the disastrous effects of war and the dangers of involvement." ~ President Franklin Roosevelt, Quarantine speech, October 5, 1937 What sentence best expresses President Roosevelt's message?

No nation can be completely isolated from other nations

"You usually will know where the front is by the sound of gunfire, and that's the direction you should proceed. Now, suppose you lose a hand or an ear is shot off, or perhaps a piece of your nose, and you think you should walk back to get first aid. If I see you, it will be the last... walk you'll ever take." ~ General George S. Patton Jr., addressing his junior officers Bases on this quote, what word would describe General Patton?

Persistent

The cartoon showing Hitler between two tanks was most likely drawn around the time of...

The Allied invasion of Germany

What led to the success of Operation Overlord?

The Allies convinced Hitler that the invasion would happen in Calais, causing him to order important forces away from the invasion site at Normandy.

"I saw more planes coming in, passing over Battleship Row dropping bombs. I remember very clearly what looked like a dive-bomber coming in over the Arizona and dropping a bomb. I saw that bomb go down through what looked like a stack, and almost instantly it cracked the bottom of the Arizona, blowing the whole bow loose. It rose out of the water and settled. I could see flames, fire, and smoke coming out of that ship, and I saw two men flying through the air and the fire, screaming as they went." ~ Corpsman James F. Anderson In this text Corpsman Anderson is describing...

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

What do the actions listed in this chart suggest about the League of Nations?

The League of Nations criticized the actions of aggressive nations but did not take effective measures to stop the aggression.

What does the map suggest about the Soviet Union's role in World War II?

The Soviet's saw heavy combat in southeastern Europe

Supporters of the Neutrality Act of 1939 believed that...

The US should send aid to the democracies of Europe.

What might explain the pattern of casualties for Poland shown in the chart?

The many Nazi death camps in Poland resulted in high civilian casualties including the loss of much of the country's Jewish population.

One reason France and Britain pursued a policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany in the 1930s was...

The perception that the Soviet Union was a more significant threat.

"In time of war, our ordinary ideas of what we will consume and how we are able to spend our money must be set aside. The usual peace time activities of the country must be subordinated to a single huge job-the carrying on of a war which calls upon is for our utmost in resources and effort. The job of every consumer, therefor, in this period of war is to change his consumption and his spending of money in such a way as to help carry on the war in every way possible, and to release productive capacity of every sort for defense effort, and at the same time keep up the health and morale of himself and his family." ~Suggestions to county committiees of consumer interests What is the purpose of this passage?

To encourage Americans to cooperate with rationing of goods

"We have reached complete agreement as to the scope and timing of the operations to be undertaken from the east, west and south. The common understanding which we have here reached guarantees that victory will be ours... No power on earth can prevent our destroying the German armies by land, their U-boats by sea, and their war planes from the air." ~ Declaration of the Three Powers, December 1,1943 What was the purpose of this declaration, which was issued after a meeting of the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union?

To show that the Allies were unified in their efforts to defeat Germany

Erwin Rommel, who led the German forces in Northern Africa, later...

Was charged with trying to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

This poster was made to encourage...

Women's service in the military.

"The United States troops have done almost all the fighting and have suffered almost all the losses. They have suffered losses almost equal to those of both sides at the Battle of Gettysburg... [it] will, I believe, be regarded as an ever-famous American victory." ~Winston Churchill, Address to the House of Commons, January 18,1945 In this address, Prime Minister Churchill is referencing...

the Battle of the Bulge.

"The President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, being met together, deem it right to make known certain common principles in the national policies of their respective countries on which the base their hopes for a better future for the world. First, their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial, or other; Second, they desire to see no teritorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the people concerned; Third, they respect the right of all peoples to chose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them;... They will likewise aid and encourage all other practicable measures which will lighten for peace-loving peoples the crushing burden of armaments." ~Atlantic Charter, August 14,1941 This excerpt from the Atlantic Charter confirmed that...

the United States and Britain would support the sovereignty of countries affected by the war.

Paragraph 1.1 Marriages between Jews and citizens of German or German related blood are forbidden. Marriages which have been performed in spite of this law, even if they have been performed in a foreign country are void. 2. The complaint declaring them void can only originate with the District Attorney... What was the purpose of Paragraph 1 of the law quoted?

to isolate the Jews