1) Which of the following is most associated with Allied appeasement of the NAZIS?
a. Dunkirk
b. Munich
c. Stockholm
d. Warsaw
2) WWII began when
a. hitler invaded Poland
b. hitler annexed Austria
c. Hitler occupied Czechoslovakia
d. hitler signed the non-aggression pact with stalin
3)the lend-lease bill of 1941 empowered the President to
a. grant government loans to allies
b. lend physical goods rather than money to the Allies
c. authorize private American loans to the Nazis
d. none of the above
4) the US began to emerge from the Great Depression as a result of
a. freezing rents, prices, and wages
b. producing goods for the allied forces.
c. increasing production of non-military consumer goods.
d. allocating raw materials
5) typically, prison camps hold prisoners of war and political prisoners, but the Nazi camps were different. In what was were the Nazi concentration camps different?
a. they held and executed other people such as Jews, Jehovah’s witnesses, people with physical and mental illness, and homosexuals
b. they moved POW’s to separate holding areas where they were executed
c. they immediately killed all POW’s and political prisoners
d. they were liberated by Allied bombers
6) the american first committee, with lindbergh as its spokesman, advocated
a. immediate entry into the war in 1939
b. concentrating US war efforts in the Pacific
c. keeping the US out of war
d. increasing military and financial aid to the allies
7) US entry into the war ___ supported by the nation after Dec. 7, 1941
a) was
b) was not
which is NOT a reason American women faced new job opportunities during the war?
a. the gov’t encouraged women to join the work force
b. factory jobs were vacated by men serving in the war
c. patriotism inspired many women to accept jobs to aid the war effort
d. married women were required to work or volunteer for the war effort
9) on the home front during WWII
a. racial discrimination in employment practices ended
b. the Jim Crow system was banned nation-wide by executive order
c. segregation ended in Northern cities
d. African-Americans took direct action to promote racial equality
10) the battles of Midway,Coral Sea and Iwo, Jima were US wins in the
a. western front
b. african theater
c. pacific theater
d. atlantic theater
11) "The government has shown that it intended to follow the whims ….of public opinion, rather than the cold light of proof. It has rejected us spiritually, economically, and politically by surrounding us with barbed wire and armed sentries." The author of the 1942 quote was most likely a(n)
a. african-american
b.german-american
c.italian-american
d.japanese american
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