World War II – World At War Post-Pearl Harbor Clip Guide
1. True/False The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor caused America to enter World
War II.
2. Who was President of the U.S. when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?
3. What effect did the attack on Pearl Harbor have on mobilization of U.S. troops?
4. What was the purpose of the WPB? Did Roosevelt set the amount of war materiel
produced by the WPB?
5. How was the use of the assembly line changed during World War II?
6. What was special about “Rosie the Riveter”?
7. True/False Roosevelt promoted laws the limit discrimination and other unfair
business practices.
8. How did the government plan to fund the war?
9. What ways did Americans and the OPA try help promote the war effort?
10. True/False Roosevelt signed an executive order forcing Japanese-Americans into
internment or detention camps.
11. What was Roosevelt and Churchill’s top priority in late 1941?
12. Why did Roosevelt begin use of convoys, sonar, and airplanes during this part of
the war?
World War II – World At War Post-Pearl Harbor Clip Guide
13. Where did American’s first battle Axis armies? Who led the Americans on
Morocco and North Africa?
14. How did the Battle of Stalingrad effect the German Army? Why was it
significant?
15. Did the Allies use terror bombing (killing civilivians) as well as other statergic
war facilities?
16. What was “Operation Overlord”?
17. Why was this day, D-Day, important to the future of the world?
18. Why was the Battle of the Bulge important to Hitler and the Germans?
19. How did Hitler react to the taking of Berlin and Germany by the Allies?
20. What took place on April 12, 1945? Who took over the U.S. upon Roosevelt’s
death?
21. Who was the Allied commander in the Pacific?
22. What was the purpose of Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo?
23. Why was the Battle of Midway a turning point of the war?
World War II – World At War Post-Pearl Harbor Clip Guide
24. What was the goal of the “island hopping” strategy?
25. What type of attacks did Japan begin to use following Allied victories in the
Pacific?
26. What worried President Truman the most about the ongoing war ,and a possible
invasion of Japan?
27. True/False The Manhattan Project was the code name given to the project of
building the Atomic Bomb.
28. True/False President Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb of
Hrioshima and Nagasaki to save American lives and end the war quickly.
29. Was World War II the deadliest war in human history?
30. What countries controlled Germany following World War II?
31. What conflict arose as a result of this reorganization of Germany?
32. Why were the Nuremberg Trials important?
33. What international peacekeeping organization came into existence during the
period following World War II, replacing the League of Nations? Was the U.S. a
member of this organization?