APUSH -Ch 34/35 Quiz

Question 1

What concluded world war I?

Answer 1

Treaty of Versailles

Question 2

Describe Germans in 1930s

Answer 2

disillusioned and desperate

Question 3

Who did Germans look to as their saviors from the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 3

Adolf Hitler

Question 4

What was the London Economic Conference?

What did this illustrate?

Answer 4

U.S.’s withdrawal from the London Economic Conference

FDR’s determination not to associate his New Deal (inflationary) agenda with an international attempt to combat the effects of global depression by stabilizing the international currencies

Question 5

What are the two major fascist powers?

Answer 5

Germany and Italy

Question 6

What do Germany and Italy provide General Franco?

Why?

What war is this?

Answer 6

they provide economic and military aid

to defeat Spain’s Loyalists

Spanish Civil War

Question 7

What is the Spanish Civil War?

Answer 7

a prelude to WWII

Question 8

Who do Loyalists get help from?

Answer 8

the Soviet Union and other volunteers from many countries

Question 9

Who remains neutral in the Spanish Civil War?

Answer 9

Western Governments

Question 10

How do Britain and France forestall another bloodbath like WWI?

Answer 10

they adopt a policy of appeasement in dealing with German, Italian, and Japanese aggression and territorial expansion

Question 11

What did Germany and the Soviet Union do?

Answer 11

signed a nonaggression pact

Question 12

what does FDR do to assist Britain? (2)

what did he do?

Answer 12

1. circumvents the neutrality acts
2. Lend - lease act

he gave the British destroyers in return for british military bases

Question 13

What brought the US into the war?

Answer 13

Pearl Harbor

Question 14

What made FDR desperate to assist Britain?

Answer 14

the spread of totalitarianism and war in Europe

Question 15

Good Neighbor Policy

Answer 15

stressed non-intervention in Latin America

Question 16

Reciprocal Trade Agreements

Answer 16

reversed traditional high protective-tariff policies by allowing the pres. to negotiate lower tariffs with trade partners, w/o senate approval

Question 17

Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Answer 17

idealistic American volunteers who served in the Spanish Civil War, defending Spanish republican forces from the fascist General Francisco Franco’s nationalist coup

Question 18

Quarantine Speech

Answer 18

FDR’s speech where he called for “positive endeavors” to “quarantine” land-hungry dictators, presumably through economic embargos

Question 19

War Refugee Board

Answer 19

US agency formed to help rescue Jews from German-occupied territories and to provide relief to inmates of Nazi concentration camps

Question 20

Lend - Lease Act

Answer 20

“Send guns, not sons” abandoned former pretenses of neutrality by allowing Americans to sell unlimited supplies of arms to any nation defending itself against the Axis powers

Question 21

Atlantic Charter

Answer 21

meeting on a warship off the coast of Newfoundland in August 1941, Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill signed this covenant outlining the future path toward disarmament, peace, and a permanent system of general security

Question 22

Describe gov. propaganda during the war

Answer 22

exploited racial stereotypes often depicting Japanese ppl with big teeth and bad vision

Question 23

who had considerable military success early in the war ?

Answer 23

Germany, Japan, and Italy

Question 24

What does Roosevelt do to Japanese Americans that was a serious violation against American Civil Rights?

Why?

Answer 24

he ordered the detention of Japanese Americans

he feared that they would be disloyal

Question 25

Who did the Nazis consider inferior? (5)

Answer 25

Slaves

mentally ill

homosexuals

political prisoners

Jews

Question 26

Who contributed significantly in WWII?

Answer 26

Blacks

Question 27

What increased national debt?

Answer 27

the considerable financial resources needed to wage war

Question 28

What did the success of D-Day bring?

Answer 28

it gave allies a bridgehead in France so they could invade Germany

Question 29

how does WWII end?

Answer 29

Germany surrenders

Question 30

What does Pres. Truman order after the war?

Answer 30

focus attention on defeating Japan

dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 31

What is the result of the war b/w U.S. and Japan?

Answer 31

Japan surrenders after atomic bombings

Question 32

What is the atmosphere in the U.S. after Pearl Harbor?

Answer 32

Unified

Question 33

what was the “get Hitler first” strategy?

Answer 33

the US and the allies invaded and liberated the conquered Europe from a Fascist rule

Question 34

What was the US’s strategy against Japan?

Answer 34

island hopping

Question 35

Executive order no. 9066

Answer 35

order of pres. FDR authorizing the war department to remove Japanese “enemy aliens” to isolated internment camps

Question 36

War Production Board

Answer 36

established in 1942 by exec. order to direct all war production, including procuring and allocating raw materials, to maximize the nation’s war machine

Question 37

WAACs and WAVES

Answer 37

woman’s branches of the US army, navy, and coast guard, established during WWII to employ woman in noncombat jobs

Question 38

Bracero Program

Answer 38

program established by agreement with the Mexican Gov. to recruit temp. Mexican agricultural workers in the US to make up for wartime labor shortages in the Far West

Question 39

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Answer 39

nonviolent civil rights organization founding in 1942 and committed to the “Double V” - victory over fascism abroad and racism at home

Question 40

Potsdam Conference

Answer 40

Where Truman met with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Leaders Churchill and later Clement Attle near Berlin to deliver an ultimatum to Japan: surrender or be destroyed

Question 41

Manhattan Project

Answer 41

code name for the American commission established in 1942 to develop the atomic bomb