WWII Quiz

The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 pledged the signatory nations to:
1. join the League of Nations
2. respect the Open Door policy in China
3. outlaw war as an instrument of national policy
4. a binding regional security military alliance with one another
In 1933, the United states finally recognized the government of communist Russia in part because the:
1. United states hoped for substantial trade with Russia
2. United states felt it needed a new ally against Hitler
3. Soviet union completely abandoned support of the Comintern
4. communists had established their legitimacy through free elections
The Good Neighbor applied specifically to:
1. Canada
2. Great Britain
3. Latin America
4. the Philippines
The Nye committee reached the conclusion that an important factor leading the United States into war in 1917 was the:
1. threat to the balance of power in Europe
2. power vacuum created by the decline of Turkey
3. need to protect American bank loans to the Allies
4. need to protect American overseas colonial possessions
The Neutrality Acts of the 1930s were based on the assumption that the United States could stay out of war by:
1. ending the Depression
2. freeing all American colonies
3. staying out of the League of Nations
4. banning arms sales to countries at war
Which of the following place names most readily brings to mind appeasement of the Nazis?
1. Dunkirk
2. Munich
3. Warsaw
4. Vichy
World War II in Europe began when Hitler:
1. invaded Poland
2. annexed Austria
3. occupied Czechoslovakia
4. signed a nonaggression pact with stalin
The Lend Lease bill in 1941 empowered the president to:
1. grant government loans to the Allies
2. lend goods rather than money to the Allies
3. authorize private American loans to the Allies
4. abrogate the Neutrality Act of 1939 by executive order
Initial United States military policy in World War II called for:
1. defeating Japan first
2. defeating Germany first
3. devoting equal resources to the Atlantic and pacific theaters of war
4. waging a holding operation on both fronts until the atomic bomb could be developed
The Battles of the Coral Sea and of Midway were significant in:
1. saving the Philippines from being invaded
2. thwarting the Japanese army's drive through Burma
3. stopping Japanese advances in the Pacific
4. driving the last vestiges of American sea power from the Pacific
The first area to be liberated from Axis occupation by the Allies was:
1. France
2. Sicily
3. the Balkans
4. North Africa
Government efforts to control inflation during world war II included three of the following. Which is the exception?
1. selling war bonds
2. imposing direct price controls
3. balancing the federal budget
4. levying higher taxes on personal incomes
Three of the following statements accurately describe or characterize black experiences during world War II. Which is the exception?
1. Racial discrimination was abolished in the military
2. The black migration from the rural south to industrial cities increased
3. Black organizations displayed greater militancy in putting forth their demands
4. Blacks had some success in influencing the federal government toward a commitment to racial equality
Chinese-American relations were seriously strained during World War II because Chiang Kai-shek:
1. ordered General Joseph Stilwell to leave the country
2. would not commit his full strength against the Japanese
3. would not allow United states bombers to operate from Chinese soil
4. had too close ties with the Chinese communist forces under Mao Zedong
The Japanese word kamikaze literally means "divine wind." During World War II, the word referred to:
1. atomic fallout
2. ritual disembowelment
3. the lightening speed with which the Japanese armies swept through Southeast Asia
4. a suicide mission in which a Japanese pilot purposely crashed his plane into an enemy ship
The objective of the Manhattan project was to develop:
1. the atomic bomb
2. synthetic rubber
3. a system of coastal defenses
4. a system for dispersion of civilian urban populations
With respect to the countries of Europe liberated from Nazi control, the Yalta Conference provided for:
1. permanent soviet occupation
2. a system of United Nations mandates
3. interim governments and subsequent free elections
4. the withdrawal of the Red Army and immediate self-government
At Yalta (1945), the Soviet Union gained territorial concessions in Asia in return for agreeing to:
1. join the United Nations
2. enter the war against Japan
3. give up reparations from Germany
4. give up claims to Polish territory
An important reason why Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill agreed at Casablanca (1943) to demand unconditional surrender of the Axis powers was to:
1. hasten the end of the war
2. destroy-the morale of the Axis powers
3. encourage the Russians to enter the Pacific war
4. reassure the Russians that they would not be left abandoned to fight on alone
Three of the following were sources of Soviet bitterness toward the United States in the period before the outbreak of World War II. Which is the exception? The United States:
1. opposed the Bolshevik revolution
2. prevented Russia from being admitted to the League of Nations
3. refused to recognize the Soviet government until 1933
4. sent troops into Russia toward the end of World War I