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Question Which countries made up the Axis Powers?

Answer 1 – 10 Germany, Italy and Japan.

Question True or False the America First Committee was against America’s involvement in WWII?

Answer 1 – 20 True. The America First Committee warned the American public of the folly’s of getting involved in a second European war.

Question What was Cash and Carry?

Answer 1 – 30 Roosevelt persuaded Congress in 1939 to adopt a less restrictive Neutrality Act, which provided that a belligerent could buy US arms if it used its own ships and paid cash.

Question The Neutrality Act of 1935 authorized the President to prohibit…

Answer 1 – 40 Prohibit all arms shipments to countries at war and forbid US citizens from traveling on ships of belligerent nations.

Question What was the Nye Committee’s conclusion about WWI?

Answer 1 – 50 The main reason for US participation in WWI was to serve the greed of bankers and arms manufacturers.

Question Where did the Japanese sneak attack on the US take place?

Answer 2 – 10 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Question Atomic Bombs were used on what two Japanese cities?

Answer 2 – 20 Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question True or False the Battle of Midway was the turning point in the war in the Pacific?

Answer 2 – 30 True. The US destroyed four Japanese carriers shifting the initiative of the war to favor the Americans.

Question Japanese Kamikaze attacks began at the Battle of…

Answer 2 – 40 Leyte Gulf. Over 400 US ships were sank and 10,000 sailors were killed.

Question What was Island Hopping?

Answer 2 – 50 Island Hopping was the US strategy of invading only the Japanese held islands that were necessary to move the US closer to an attack on the Japanese main islands.

Question What were the names of the leaders of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy?

Answer 3 – 10 Adolf Hitler and Bonito Mussolini

Question What was D-Day?

Answer 3 – 20 The Allied invasion of France at Normandy. It was the largest amphibious assault in the history of the world and it provided the Allies the foothold they needed to continue the fight against the Nazis.

Question Americans called the German counteroffensive the Battle…

Answer 3 – 30 Of the Bulge. The US held back the German advance in the Ardennes forest in Belgium.

Question True or False America’s first major battle in the European theatre at Kasserine Pass was a success?

Answer 3 – 40 False. The Americans were inexperienced and they had weak equipment. The Germans commanded by Erwin Rommel defeat the US.

Question Why was the Battle of Stalingrad important?

Answer 3 – 50 Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Russia and Germany. The battle would result in the death of approximately 800,000 people from both sides. Afterward the Russians started to push the Germans west into retreat.

Question True or False, during WWII Mexicans were encouraged to come to the US to farm American fields?

Answer 4 – 10 True. The US government allowed Braceros or Mexican farm workers to replace American farm workers who had left to fight in the war.

Question How did the US finance WWII?

Answer 4 – 20 The government raised taxes and sold war bonds.

Question How did the Supreme Court rule in the Korematsu case?

Answer 4 – 30 The Supreme Court upheld the governments decision to intern over 100,000 Japanese- Americans as a military necessity.

Question The Double V stood for…

Answer 4 – 40 Victory over fascism and victory for equality for African-Americans at home.

Question How did the Office of Price Administration affect American lives during WWII?

Answer 4 – 50 The OPA regulated almost every aspect of civilians lives by freezing prices, wages, and rents and rationing such commodities as meat, sugar, gasoline and auto tires.

Question Who were the two Presidents of the US during WWII?

Answer 5 – 10 Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman

Question Where was the first atomic bomb tested?

Answer 5 – 20 Alamogordo, New Mexico

Question Where did the first major US land offensive of WWII take place?

Answer 5 – 30 The Battle of Guadalcanal took place on the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific NE of Australia.

Question What was the sight of the most devastating bombing campaign (killed the most people) of the war?

Answer 5 – 40 Dresden, Germany. Although the radiation produced by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima would eventually kill more people the Dresden firebombing killed 135,000 Germans in the initial attack.

Question Which admiral adopted the island hopping strategy?

Answer 5 – 50 Admiral Chester Nimitz who commanded the American Navy adopted the island hopping strategy in order to quickly advance towards the Japanese main islands.