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Question #1
A major success for Germany and its allies during World War II was
A.   the Battle of the Bulge.
B.   the "blitzkrieg" campaign.
C.   the Battle of Midway.
D.   the Battle of Stalingrad.
Question #2
After breaking Japanese codes, the American navy was forewarned about the timing of this attack and prepared for an ambush. This battle proved to be the turning point of the Pacific naval war.
A.   Battle of Midway
B.   Battle of Leyte Gulf
C.   Battle of the Coral Sea
D.   Battle of Java Sea
Question #3
Congress passed this legislation in 1941, which authorized military aid so long as countries promised to return it all after the war. The passing of this act allowed the U.S. to funnel billions of dollars' worth of arms to Britain, China, and later the Soviet Union.
A.   GI Bill of Rights
B.   Good Neighbor Policy
C.   Neutrality Acts
D.   Lend-Lease Act
Question #4
During World War II, the Axis powers were
A.   Great Britain, the United States, and Italy.
B.   Germany, Italy, and Japan.
C.   France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.
D.   Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.
Question #5
Germany suffered far higher casualties among its soldiers on the western front than it did on the Russian front.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #6
In the 1944 case of Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that
A.   persons of Japanese descent would be deported after the war.
B.   the internment of people of Japanese descent was not based on race.
C.   the internment of Japanese-Americans was illegal.
D.   persons of multiple Asian races would be considered Japanese and therefore, could be relocated to internment camps.
Question #7
On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Where is Pearl Harbor?
A.   Guam
B.   Cuba
C.   Japan
D.   Hawaii
Question #8
President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 ordered the internment of all Japanese-Americans who refused to sign an oath of loyalty to the United States.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #9
The American Indians who were famously called "code talkers" during World War II were from the Cherokee tribe.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #10
The Roosevelt administration paid little attention to foreign affairs before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #11
The congressional legislation that extended an array of benefits, including unemployment pay, educational scholarships, low-cost mortgage loans, pensions, and job training to millions of returning veterans beginning in 1944 was called
A.   the New Republic.
B.   the Economic Bill of Rights.
C.   the National Resources Planning Act.
D.   the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, or GI Bill of Rights.
Question #12
The largest single battle ever fought by the U.S. Army occurred in 1944, producing 70,000 American casualties, is called
A.   the Battle of the Coral Sea.
B.   the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
C.   the Battle of the Bulge.
D.   the Battle of Midway.
Question #13
The term "blitzkrieg" means "lightning war."
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #14
The top-secret program in which American scientists developed an atomic bomb during World War II was called the Manhattan Project.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #15
Under this program, tens of thousands of contract laborers from Mexico crossed into the United States to take up jobs as domestic and agricultural workers during World War II.
A.   bracero program
B.   internment camp program
C.   rancheros program
D.   Enemy Alien Control Program
Question #16
We now call the mass extinction of "undesirable" peoples - Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and, above all, Jews - that Hitler undertook in 1941 the Holocaust. He called it
A.   Guadalcanal.
B.   the Reich.
C.   the "final solution."
D.   the Third Reich.
Question #17
When World War II ended, most female war workers, especially those in better-paying industrial employment
A.   were contracted to continue working as they had been proven invaluable during the war.
B.   were rewarded with a month vacation, which also allowed companies to determine if a returning GI wanted to resume his position.
C.   were laid off.
D.   had to compete with the returning GIs for the same jobs.
Question #18
Which of the following was not a feature of American involvement in World War II?
A.   Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan was based in part on a fear that hundreds of thousands of Americans might otherwise die in a land war.
B.   FDR agreed to a wartime alliance with the Soviet Union only after Stalin promised to rid his country of communism after the war.
C.   Only with the Allied invasion of Normandy did American troops assume a major presence in European combat.
D.   It took the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to shock a reluctant nation into entering the war.
Question #19
Which was not one of the Four Freedoms, President Roosevelt's shorthand for American purposes in World War II?
A.   freedom of speech
B.   freedom from fear
C.   freedom of liberty
D.   freedom from want
Question #20
Who of the following were known as the "Big Three"?
A.   Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin
B.   Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Emperor Hirohito
C.   Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini
D.   Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito

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