Multiple Choice Questions

US versus USSR 1946-1988
  • Iron Curtain
  • Cold War
  • Containment
  • Nato
governmental leader who has absolute control
  • fascism
  • totalitarian
  • adolf hitler
  • dictator
developed the atomic bomb
  • J Robert Oppenheimer
  • Dwight D Eisenhower
  • Winston Churchill
  • Charles De Gaulle
loose lips sink ship
  • LUFTWAFFE
  • WAVES
  • NATO
  • LLSS
deducted from American paychecks, 1942
  • property tax
  • draft
  • sales tax
  • income tax
to work together with other nations.
  • Collaboration
  • Propaganda
  • Resistance
  • Appeasement
June 1947
  • The death of President Roosevelt
  • The Yalta conference
  • The establishment of the Marshall plan
  • The Cold War
2 biggest women's branches
  • Rosie the Riveter
  • WAX & WAVES
  • Parochial
  • Disarmament
December 7, 1941 -Japan attacks US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - this brings the US into WWII
  • D-day
  • Okinawa
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Iwo Jima
1941: US attempt to stop aggressions of Japan against neighbors
  • Berlin airlift
  • Hiroshima and nagasaki
  • US oil embargo against Japan
  • Pearl harbor
a final choice
  • propaganda
  • isolationism
  • mobilization
  • ultimatum
June 6th 1944, Allied forces under Dwight d. Eisenhower landed on the beaches of Normandy in history's greatest naval invasion --> surrounded Germ. to force surrender
  • Nato
  • Hiroshima
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • D-Day/Operation Overlord
Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States.
  • Iron Curtain
  • Allied Powers
  • Japan
  • Atlantic Charter
surrendering to your enemies on their terms - no negotiations
  • unconditional surrender
  • manhattan project
  • tuskegee airmen
  • final solution
1938; Chamberlain, France and other countries (not the USSR) --> appeasement: agreed that Sudentenland should be ceded to Germany if Hitler promised to end expansion --> Chamberlain thought he secured peace with Germany.
  • Yalta Conference
  • Nuremberg Trials
  • Potsdam Conference
  • Munich Conference
led the Free French and backed the underground Resistance movement in France.
  • Charles de Gaulle
  • Neville chamberlain
  • Winston churchill
  • Franklin d. Roosevelt
Act of condemnation of Japan's invasion of China in 1937 --> FDR showed that he was moving the country slowly out of isolationism.
  • nuremberg trials
  • atlantic charter
  • quarantine speech
  • manhattan project
When did the US declare war on Japan?
  • Dec. 8, 1936
  • Dec. 1, 1941
  • Dec. 8, 1940
  • Dec. 8, 1941
butter, sugar, gasoline, tires...
  • rationed
  • holocaust
  • war bonds
  • mobilization
English prime minister, appeased Hitler @ Munich
  • Winston Churchill
  • Hitler
  • Chamberlin
  • Charles De Gaulle
Invasion of this nation by Hitler led to Allies declaring war on Germany
  • France
  • Soviet Union
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Poland
One of the most-known American military leaders of WWII --> liberated the Philippines and made the Japanese surrender at Tokyo in 1945
  • Hideki Tojo
  • Winston Churchill
  • General Douglas MacArthur
  • Harry S. Truman
Location hit by the second atomic bomb 3 days after Hiroshima --> killed 40,000 --> Japan surrenders
  • Hiroshima
  • Okinawa
  • Iwo Jima
  • Nagasaki
How the US financed WWII
  • Office Of Price Administration
  • War Bonds
  • Rationing
  • Propaganda
What were Japanese Americans who were born in the US called?
  • Nisei
  • Tuskegee Airmen
  • Nagasaki
  • Kamikaze
1945 Meeting between Allied leaders; FDR, Churchill, and Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war, signs that US Britain feared future Communist expansion. Russia agreed to fight Japan but claimed East Europe as its own
  • Yalta Conference
  • Potsdam Conference
  • Munich Conference
  • Atlantic Charter
helped resolve labor disputes that might slow down war production.
  • Office Of Price Administration
  • Selective Service Act
  • War Production Board
  • National War Labor Board
What steps were taken to prevent high inflation in the US during WWII?
  • Price Freeze, increased income tax, war bonds, rationing
  • Rosie the Riveter
  • War Production Board
  • Zoot suit riots
Prime minister of Japan during World War II
  • Hideki Tojo
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Douglas Macarthur
  • Benito Mussolini
Effort in the 1930s to avoid making the same mistakes that got the USA into WWI
  • Gi Bill Of Rights
  • Neutrality Acts
  • Atlantic Charter
  • Munich Pact
founded UN, divided Germany & divided Berlin
  • wendyl wilkee
  • czechoslovakia
  • nuremberg trials
  • meeting at Yalta
Converted factories from civilian to military production. Manufacturing output tripled. Ex: Ford
  • Manhattan Project
  • War Production Board
  • National War Labor Board
  • Office Of Price Administration
Who received Lend Lease supplies from the US?
  • Winston Churchill
  • Women
  • General Douglas Macarthur
  • Great Britain and Soviet Union
after fall of Poland, French and British troops wait for German attack along the Maginot line
  • Phony War
  • Cold War
  • Blitzkrieg
  • Appeasement
becoming involved in the affairs of another person or country.
  • Isolationism
  • Containment
  • Appeasement
  • Interventionism
large, sturdy merchant ships that carried supplies or troops.
  • Rosie The Riveter
  • Liberty Ship
  • Victory Garden
  • Nisei
Payments losers make to winners after wars
  • Appeasement
  • Propaganda
  • Disarmament
  • Reparations
Isolationism
  • The death of President Roosevelt
  • US Foriegn Policy in the 1930's
  • Francisco Franco
  • Selective Service System
Commander of the Allied forces on the Philippine islands
  • George Patton
  • Hideki Tojo
  • Douglas MacArthur
  • George Marshall
Germany invades Poland (WWII starts)
  • September 1, 1938
  • September 1, 1939
  • September 1, 1934
  • September 1, 1940
the Servicemen's Readjustment Act
  • GI Bill of Rights
  • Neutrality Acts
  • War Production Board
  • Manhattan Project
wants to stay out of the war and wants to send aid to Britain.
  • Neutrality Acts
  • Atlantic Charter
  • Yalta Conference
  • America First Committee
June 1948 to May 1949
  • Nato
  • The Korean War
  • The Berlin Blockade
  • The Cold War
after Germany takes control of the French government, these French citizens disrupt the German military so as to help the allied war effort
  • Iron Curtain
  • The French Resistance
  • Island-hopping
  • Office Of Price Administration
WWII Office that installs price controls on essential items to prevent inflation
  • Office of Price Administration
  • Manhattan Project
  • War Production Board
  • National War Labor Board
attempting to avoid conflict by making concessions and agreeing to part of the demands (giving Hitler what he wanted so he would stop aggression)
  • containment
  • appeasement
  • blitzkrieg
  • isolationism
exerts total control over a nation.
  • Dictator
  • Poland
  • Japan
  • Totalitarian
April 12, 1945
  • Erwin rommel
  • The death of President Roosevelt
  • The yalta conference
  • The korean war
The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy - often imposed by governments during wartime.
  • war production board
  • rationing
  • propaganda
  • appeasement
May 8, 1945; Signaled the end to WWII
  • Battle Of The Bulge
  • V-E Day
  • Battle Of The Atlantic
  • D-day
the organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII
  • Holocaust
  • Cold War
  • Kristallnacht
  • Blitzkrieg
The annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938.& violation of Treaty of Versailles
  • Anschluss
  • Kristallnacht
  • Appeasement
  • Blitzkrieg
Eastern Europe under Soviet control
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Cold War
  • Iron Curtain
  • Marshall Plan
Rommel (German general)
  • desert fox
  • enola gay
  • rosie the riveter
  • dictator
the name of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945.
  • Rosie The Riveter
  • Hiroshima
  • Desert Fox
  • Enola Gay
June 6, 1944 Allies land on the beaches in Normandy, France and go on the offensive to drive Hitler's forces back into Germany
  • V-e Day
  • D-day
  • Battle Of The Bulge
  • Pearl Harbor
Surround Soviet satellites to prevent Communist expansion
  • Appeasement
  • Isolationism
  • Containment
  • Domino Theory
1st Japanese city to be bombed by an atomic bomb
  • Okinawa
  • Hiroshima
  • Nagasaki
  • Iwo Jima
Hitler looked to see if he can remilitarize the Rhineland.
  • Rhineland
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Anschluss
  • Poland
33 President, authorized use of atomic bomb, and signed Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe. FDR's vice president made the decision to drop the Atomic bomb on Japan
  • Winston Churchill
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Douglas Macarthur
general always in trouble
  • George Patton
  • George Marshall
  • Douglas Macarthur
  • Erwin Rommel
women army core
  • WAX
  • MACARTHUR
  • WAACS
  • WAVES
July 1945
  • The Korean war
  • The Cold war
  • The Potsdam conference
  • The Yalta conference
FDR's pres. opponent in 1940 (from indiana)
  • Wind Talkers
  • Soviet Union
  • Wendyl Wilkee
  • Desert Fox
yesterday's jeeps,
  • humvs (hummers)
  • ultimatum
  • big three
  • wendyl wilkee
Selective service
  • income tax
  • propaganda
  • selective service act
  • draft
nicknames of A-bombs
  • iron curtain
  • fatman & little boy
  • japanese americans
  • doolittle
China's industrial northern province, invaded by Japan in 1931 --> League of Nations could not execute authority on countries that didn't recognize it -->US not willing to blockade Japan due to need for trade during Great Depression
  • Manchuria
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Soviet Union
  • Japan
32 President, fought Great Depression by his New Deal, and battled congress over Supreme court control.
  • Charles De Gaulle
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Winston Churchill
  • Harry S. Truman
Defined containment
  • Nato
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Marshall Plan
  • Truman Doctrine
Discrimination against Jews
  • anti-semitism
  • fascism
  • holocaust
  • zoot suit riots
the gathering of resources and preparation for war.
  • ultimatum
  • isolationism
  • propaganda
  • mobilization
What necessitated the Truman Doctrine
  • Poland
  • France
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Greece and Turkey
Stalin, FDR, Churchill
  • Iron Curtain
  • Big Three
  • Non-aggression Pact
  • Allied Powers
Invaded and occupied by Germany until Allies came to the rescue: D-day
  • Japan
  • France
  • Mexico
  • Poland
Germany's last battle
  • Battle of the Bulge
  • D-day
  • Battle of Stalingrad
  • Battle of Midway
to hold off or not to give in.
  • Reparations
  • Collaboration
  • Appeasement
  • Resistance
secret agreement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1941 outlining the two nations' war aims for self-determination
  • Atlantic Charter
  • Munich Pact
  • Neutrality Acts
  • Yalta Conference
German air force
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Luftwaffe
  • Kamikaze
  • Blitzkrieg
Who threatened to lead a march against Washington DC because of racial discrimination during WWII?
  • A. Philip Randolph
  • Harry S. Truman
  • George Marshall
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
population boom, no resources, aggressive country
  • France
  • Mexico
  • Japan
  • Soviet Union
Hitler's plan to kill all the Jews in Europe
  • Final Solution
  • Holocaust
  • Berlin Airlift
  • Kristallnacht
What was the date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
  • Dec. 7, 2041
  • Dec. 17, 1941
  • Dec. 7, 1941
  • Dec. 10, 1941
Program where U.S. supplied Allies vast amounts of war material during WWII --> ended the neutrality between Germany and the US
  • Lend lease
  • Isolationism
  • Pearl harbor
  • Cash and carry
German for lightning war; the swift attacks launched by Germany in World War II
  • appeasement
  • luftwaffe
  • blitzkrieg
  • kristallnacht
Used to hold Japanese-American citizens due to fear of spies and sabateurs during WWII
  • Internment Camps
  • Final Solution
  • Japan
  • Pearl Harbor
code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II
  • Manhattan Project
  • War Production Board
  • Hiroshima
  • Nagasaki
March 1947
  • The French Resistance
  • fatman & little boy
  • The establishment of the Truman doctrine
  • ultimatum
General who commanded troops in North Africa
  • Winston Churchill
  • Douglas Macarthur
  • George Patton
  • Dwight D Eisenhower
leader of Soviet Union, also worked with Roosevelt and Churchill during WWII.
  • Winston Churchill
  • Josef Stalin
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Benito Mussolini
Invented blood banks
  • Nisei
  • Charles Drew
  • Dwight D Eisenhower
  • Tuskegee Airmen
FDR's justification for lending weapons to the British
  • Appeasement
  • Arsenal of Democracy
  • Nuremberg Trials
  • Luftwaffe
The Women's Army Axillary Corps , Women being in the army changed their roles in society and gained them new respect.
  • Enola Gay
  • WAACs
  • Waves
  • D-day
wartime leader, prime minister of Japan
  • Hirohito
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Tojo
  • Benito Mussolini
army chief of staff, stayed in DC
  • Douglas Macarthur
  • George Patton
  • George Marshall
  • Winston Churchill
led the Nationalists to form its own government.
  • Francisco Franco
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Charles De Gaulle
WWII agency contributes $100Ms to scientific projects like Manhattan, radar, sonar, etc
  • Office of Scientific Research and Development
  • France, GB, China, USA & Soviet Union
  • Enola Gay
  • veto power
Japanese Internment was constitutional because individual or group rights may be limited to protect national security
  • Liberty ship
  • Neutrality acts
  • Executive order of 9066
  • Korematsu v. USA
pacific Navaho warriors nickname
  • wind talkers
  • kamikaze
  • totalitarian
  • luftwaffe
seized American oil in 1938, no military action
  • Japan
  • Mexico
  • France
  • Soviet Union
African Americans fought for double V
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • victory over Axis Powers & over racism
  • Dwight D Eisenhower
  • Battle of Midway
all black unit of fighter pilots. trained in Tuskegee Alabama. won many awards for bravery and never lost a single pilot
  • Nisei
  • Marshall Plan
  • Tuskegee Airmen
  • D-day
Deal between Roosevelt and Churchill where Roosevelt gave Britain 50 old destroyers for the right to build bases in British territory in the Americas.
  • Kellogg-briand pact
  • Atlantic charter
  • Non-aggression pact
  • Destroyer for bases deal
awarded seats to the UN
  • Rosie the Riveter
  • France, GB, China, USA & Soviet Union
  • Reparations
  • Collaboration
leader of Nazi Party (National Socialist party) and Dictator of the German Empire
  • Winston Churchill
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Francisco Franco
  • Adolf Hitler
reducing or eliminating military weapons
  • Disarmament
  • Appeasement
  • Blitzkrieg
  • Isolationism
an abbreviation of Government Issue .
  • Allied Powers
  • GI
  • NATO
  • Doolittle
alliance between germany, italy, and japan because they all wanted empires and they were totalitarian
  • Lend Lease
  • Allied Powers
  • Blitzkrieg
  • Axis Alliance
British prime minister and pursued a policy of appeasement.
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Benito Mussolini
  • Winston Churchill
  • Neville Chamberlain
Dday
  • June 5, 1944
  • June 6, 1934
  • June 6, 1844
  • June 6, 1944
allowed European nations to buy war materials from U.S. on a cash-and-carry basis
  • Neutrality Act of 1934
  • Neutrality Act of 1939
  • Neutrality Act of 1949
  • Neutrality Act of 1940
February 1945
  • Nato
  • The Yalta conference
  • The Potsdam conference
  • The death of president roosevelt
signed Atlantic charter
  • Great Britain & USA
  • Manhattan project
  • Final solution
  • Truman doctrine
towards the end of WWII Japanese pilots conducted suicide missions, crashing their planes into ships to sink them
  • blitzkrieg
  • island-hopping
  • luftwaffe
  • kamikaze
how many Americans died in WWII
  • 405,500 people
  • 400,400 people
  • 405,405 people
  • 405,400 people
English army rescued (civilians helped) against English channel
  • D-day
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Dunkirk
  • Luftwaffe
home vegetable garden planted to add to the home food supply and replace farm produce sent to feed the soldiers.
  • National War Labor Board
  • Liberty Ship
  • Victory Garden
  • Selective Service Act
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