Lesson 5 Speedback Assignment - History from 1877

Who became president of the United States after Franklin D. Roosevelt? John F. Kennedy Warren G. Harding Harry S. Truman Herbert Hoover

Harry S. Truman

What did Adolf Hitler do when Allied forces reached Berlin during World War II? An American soldier shot him. He escaped to Poland, where he died of old age. He committed suicide. He unsuccessfully tried to escape.

He committed suicide.

What was not a turning point for the Allies during World War II? D day Hitler's attack on Stalingrad Battle of Argonne Forest Battle of Midway

Battle of Argonne Forest

Who was not an American general during World War II? Erwin Rommel George S. Patton Omar Bradley Dwight D. Eisenhower

Erwin Rommel

What role did Doctor Korczak play in the Warsaw ghetto? He ran an underground school so that those in the ghetto might continue to be educated. He was a pharmacist who continued distributing medicine to those who needed it within the ghetto. He was a professor who gathered memoirs and writings of those who lived in the ghetto. He ran an orphanage and moved to the ghetto with the children.

He ran an orphanage and moved to the ghetto with the children.

Which country was not an Allied power during World War II? France United States Spain Soviet Union

Spain

How were Jews identified in German-occupied Poland? They wore a white armband with a blue star. They wore a badge in the shape of a yellow star. They wore only black clothing. Their heads were shaved.

They wore a white armband with a blue star.

Why did Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan? Scientists had just created it during World War II and wanted to test it. Before Roosevelt died, he told Truman to use the atomic bomb. Japan was going to attack Hawaii again. Truman did not want more American soldiers to die fighting Japan.

Truman did not want more American soldiers to die fighting Japan.

What policy did France and Britain pursue with the European dictators up until 1939? quarantine appeasement Cash and Carry containment

appeasement

What event changed the American attitude from isolationism to full-out involvement in World War II? atomic bomb Lend-Lease Act Holocaust attack on Pearl Harbor

attack on Pearl Harbor

What was the purpose of the War Production Board? creating coupons to ration food helping factories switch from producing consumer goods to producing wartime materials creating the ultimate weapon helping women produce ships, guns, ammunition, and airplanes

helping factories switch from producing consumer goods to producing wartime materials

Which American attitude and policy from the 1930s did the Neutrality Act reflect? isolationism colonialism imperialism expansionism

isolationism

Which country did not adopt totalitarian rule? France Italy Germany Soviet Union

France

Why couldn't France and Great Britain inflict military force on Germany when it took the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia? France and Great Britain didn't have the support from the United States. The League of Nations did not support France and Great Britain. France and Great Britain were struggling financially. France and Great Britain were not allies.

France and Great Britain were struggling financially.

Who guarded the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, also known as flops? non-Jewish members of the Warsaw community Nazi soldiers who had been injured in combat Jewish police hired by the Nazis new recruits of the Nazi army

Jewish police hired by the Nazis

Who did Hitler use as the scapegoat for Germany's loss in World War I? Jews United States himself Allied forces

Jews

What group of soldiers served as message carriers so the Japanese could not intercept American transmissions? Japanese Americans kamikaze pilots telegraph workers Navajo code-talkers

Navajo code-talkers

Why were Japanese Americans placed in relocation camps? America saw how successful Hitler was with the Jews. People questioned their loyalty to America. They were placed there to protect them from future attacks. It provided a training facility for fighter pilots.

People questioned their loyalty to America.

What happened after most of the Jews had been deported from the Warsaw ghetto and only forty to sixty thousand Jews remained? Several thousand Jews escaped from the ghetto. The Allied forces arrived in time to free the rest of the Jews. More Jews were brought into the ghetto before being deported. The Jews violently resisted the Nazis, but were unsuccessful.

The Jews violently resisted the Nazis, but were unsuccessful.

Which of the following was not a cause of World War II? rise of militarism in Japan bombing of Pearl Harbor development of totalitarian government German aggression toward Poland

bombing of Pearl Harbor