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Question 1
What are two causes of
the rise of dictatorship
after WWI?
The peace treaty &
economic depression
Question 2
What did the Nuremburg
laws do?
Took citizenship away from
Jewish Germans
Question 3
What was a night of antiJewish violence known as?
Kristallnacht
Question 4
The Neutrality Act of 1935
made it illegal to do what?
Americans to sell arms to any
country at war
Question 5
What are the Axis countries?
Germany, Italy, & Japan
Question 6
What happened in the Battle
of Britain?
The Royal Air Force saved
Britain from invasion
Question 7
Roosevelt sent destroyers to
Britain in exchange for
what?
U.S. bases on British-held
territory
Question 8
The cost plus system sped
up war production how?
Providing larger profits for
companies that worked fast
and produced a lot
Question 9
The British & French realized
that appeasement had failed
when Hitler did what?
Made demands for territory in
Poland
Question 10
Why did Roosevelt decide to
invade Morocco and
Algeria?
Help the British troops fight
the Germans in Egypt
Question 11
Roosevelt created the Fair
Employment Practices
Commission to do what?
End discrimination in hiring
workers in defense
industries
Question 12
What were blue and red
points used for in WWII?
Rationing goods
Question 13
The Nazis’ final solution
referred to their plans to do
what?
Exterminate Europe’s Jews
Question 14
Why did the Allies place inflated
rubber tanks, empty tents, and
dummy landing craft along the
coast of Britain?
To convince the Germans the Allies
planned to land their invasion
forces in Pas-de-Calais
Question 15
Nearly 1/3 of all military
equipment made during the
war was manufactured by
what industry?
automobile
Question 16
The Nye Committee report created
the impression that America’s
entry into WWI was influenced by
what group?
American arms manufactures
Question 17
In the Munich Conference,
Britain & France did what?
Gave in to Hitler’s demands for
the Sudetenland
Question 18
Liberty ships could be
produced quickly because
why?
They were assembled from
prefabricated parts
Question 19
Where did the Bataan Death
March occur?
Philippines
Question 20
Stalin agreed to a nonaggression
treaty with Germany because
he believed what?
That it would turn Germany
against France & Britain and
keep USSR safe
Question 21
Capturing Stalingrad was the
key to Hitler’s strategy to do
what?
Destroy the Soviet economy
Question 22
In the case Korematsu v. U.S.,
the Supreme Court ruled that
relocation of Japanese
Americans was what?
Constitutional because it was
based on military urgency
Question 23
What did the Nazi leaders plan
at the Wannsee Conference?
The Final Solution
Question 24
As a result of the attack on
Sicily, what happened to
Mussolini?
Arrested by the Italian king
Question 25
The first area that Hitler
unified with Germany was
where?
Austria
Question 26
Iwo Jima was an important
objective for American
military because why?
U.S. planes could bomb
Japan from there
Question 27
In presenting his four
freedoms, Roosevelt was
trying to do what?
Shift public opinion toward
helping Britain
Question 28
The U.S. Marines has severe
causalities at Tarawa in part
because why?
The shallow reef prevented
many landing craft from
reaching shore
Question 29
At Yalta, the leaders agreed to
recognize the Polish
government that the Soviets
had set up if Stalin agreed to
what?
Hold free elections there as soon
as possible
Question 30
What did the Soviets want the
Germans to pay?
Reparations
Question 31
Which country was defeated
in May 1945 to cause V-E
Day?
Germany
Question 32
The Nazi-Soviet nonaggression
treaty contained a secret deal to do
what?
Divide Poland between them
Question 33
Migrant farm workers became
an important part of the
Southwest’s agricultural
system as a result of what?
The Bracero Program
Question 34
The U.S. caused massive fires
in Tokyo by dropping bombs
filled with what?
napalm
Question 35
A key to the American
success at Midway was
what?
Breaking the Japanese
Navy’s secret code
Question 36
Roosevelt created the Fair
Employment Practices
Commission as a result of
what?
A threatened protest of over
10,000 African American
men seeking jobs
Question 37
What happened to most of the
Jewish refugees aboard the
SS St. Louis?
Died in Nazi “Final Solution”
Question 38
During WWII, Why did
Americans buy $150 million
in war bonds?
Loan the government money
to pay for the war
Question 39
The Lend-Lease Act was
Roosevelt’s way of getting
arms to Britain without
Britain having to do what?
Pay cash
Question 40
Japan’s goal in attacking
Midway Island was what?
Destroy the American fleet
Question 41
Where did Japan invade to
get resources?
Manchuria
Question 42
What group of people did Adolf
Hitler blame for Germany’s
defeat in WWI?
Jews