Chapter 22 Quiz

Question 1

A major success for Germany and its allies during World War II was the

Answer 1

“blitzkrieg” campaign.

Question 2

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Answer 2

German annexation of Austria; Hitler-Stalin nonaggression pact; Battle of Stalingrad; “Big Three” conference at Yalta

Question 3

Which of the following was not a major thrust of the Four Freedoms promoted by FDR?

Answer 3

The only thing Americans have to fear is fear itself.

Question 4

Which of the following was not an effect of wartime mobilization on American society?

Answer 4

Americans of German descent were herded into internment camps, on the basis that their loyalties could not be trusted.

Question 5

Which of the following gatherings did not play a major role in the planning of the postwar international order?

Answer 5

the Munich conference

Question 6

Which was not one of the Four Freedoms, President Roosevelt’s shorthand for American purposes in World War II?

Answer 6

Freedom of Liberty

Question 7

Franklin Delano Roosevelt “repudiated the right to intervene militarily in the internal affairs of Latin American countries,” writes Eric Foner. Define “repudiated.”

Answer 7

to cast off or disown; to reject with disapproval

Question 8

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s foreign policy with regard to Latin American countries was called

Answer 8

the Good Neighbor Policy.

Question 9

What province of northern China did Japan invade in 1931?

Answer 9

Manchuria

Question 10

Which was not a goal or action of Adolf Hitler’s?

Answer 10

He seized control of the Philippines and Malaysia.

Question 11

Who was the founder of Italian fascism who sent troops to invade and conquer Ethiopia?

Answer 11

Benito Mussolini

Question 12

During World War II, the Axis powers were

Answer 12

Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Question 13

On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Where is Pearl Harbor?

Answer 13

Hawaii

Question 14

June 6, 1944, the day on which nearly 200,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers landed in northwestern France, in Normandy, is known as

Answer 14

D-Day.

Question 15

What did Hitler call the mass extinction of “undesirable” peoples—Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and, above all, Jews—that he undertook in 1941, and that we now call the Holocaust?

Answer 15

the “final solution”

Question 16

The self-confident woman, portrayed as fully capable of doing a man’s job in posters and on magazine covers during World War II, was called

Answer 16

“Rosie the Riveter.”

Question 17

The congressional legislation that extended an array of benefits, including unemployment pay, educational scholarships, low-cost mortgage loans, pensions, and job training to millions of returning veterans beginning in 1944, was called the

Answer 17

Serviceman’s Readjustment Act, or, G.I. Bill of Rights.

Question 18

Executive Order 9066 led to Japanese-American internment during World War II. Define “internment.”

Answer 18

the act of confining someone during wartime

Question 19

The desire for both victory at home against segregation, and victory overseas against the Germans and the Japanese, came to be called this by African-Americans during World War II

Answer 19

the “double-V”

Question 20

Who of the following were known as the “Big Three?”

Answer 20

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin