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AMERICA AT WAR “PRE-TEST”
What do you already know?
For each of the following statements, write whether you think this is true or false:
Statement
1. The US tried to stay out of both World War
One (WWI) and World War Two (WWII).
2. Japan was our enemy in both WWI and WWII
3. The US military was segregated in both WWI
and WWII (meaning that black servicemen
were not allowed to be in the same units as
whites).
4. When WWI broke out, people in the US saw
Germany as an evil empire that needed to be
stopped.
5. After WWI, the US decided to keep a very
strong army in case we had to go to war again.
6. The Treaty of Versailles is generally
considered a fair peace treaty.
7. During the 1920’s, there was little organized
crime in the US.
8. The Great Depression did not have a huge
effect on the US economy.
9. Between WWI and WWII, there was an
attempt by world powers to create an
international organization whose goal was to
prevent war.
True, False,
or Don’t
Know
(September)
True or
False, or
Don’t
Know
(December)
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10. American women did not play a large role in
winning WWI and WWII.
11. The style of fighting in WWI and WWII was
pretty much the same.
12. During the Great Depression, the US
government greatly increased its powers and
created expensive social programs like social
security.
13. The US bombed enemy cities in WWII,
killing hundreds of thousands of civilians.
14. US industrial power was a major factor in the
Allied victories in both WWI and WWII.
15. The US and its Allies put the leaders of
Germany and Japan on trial after WWII.
16. One of our allies during WWII, Joseph Stalin,
was known for being a brutal dictator.
17. The US and France were the two
“superpowers” to emerge from WWII.
18. WWI and WWII allowed American culture,
like Jazz music, to spread more easily across
the world.
19. WWII allowed the US to emerge as a
dominant industrial power.
20. During WWI and WWII, the US government
drafted (forced into the military) men who did
not have full voting rights.