Quiz 3

Question 1

Britain’s use of__________ gave an extreme advantage.

Answer 1

radar

Question 2

Many Americans once again began supporting__________ and trying to avoid involvement in international conflicts.

Answer 2

isolationism

Question 3

In 1943 ____________________ held hearings to investigate these allegations.

Answer 3

Senator Gerald P.

Question 4

The ______________ report documented the huge profits that arms factories had made during the war and had created the impression that these businesses influenced the decisions to go to war.

Answer 4

The Nye Committee

Question 5

Neutrality Act of

Answer 5

1935

Question 6

The Neutrality Act made it _______________ to sell arms to any country at war.

Answer 6

Illegal for Americans

Question 7

Japan, Italy, and Germany would become known as the_____________.

Answer 7

Axis Powers

Question 8

As European tensions worsened, Congress passed the ___________, continuing the ban on selling arms to warring nations and requiring them to buy all non military supplies from the US on a “cash-and-carry” basis.

Answer 8

The Neutrality Act of 1935

Question 9

In July 1937, FDR would go against the Neutrality Act of 1937 and would supply arms to China claiming that we would not allow an___________________ infect the world.

Answer 9

epidemic of lawlessness

Question 10

British would test American neutrality when in 1940 they asked for ____________________ to replenish their fleet.

Answer 10

old American destroyers

Question 11

Roosevelt would use a loop hole thus sending _________________ to Britain in exchange for America’s use of British based in the Atlantic.

Answer 11

50 ships

Question 12

_______________________ wanted to repeal of the neutrality laws and stronger actions against Germany.

Answer 12

The Fight for Freedom Committee

Question 13

______________ opposed any intervention to help the Allies.

Answer 13

The America First Committee

Question 14

In 1940 FDR listed the Four Freedoms that the US and Britain stood for:

Answer 14

freedom of speech
freedom of worship
freedom from want
freedom from fear

Question 15

FDR proposed the ______1_______ which allowed the US to _____2____ or _____2a_____ arms to any country considered”vital to the defence of the US”

Answer 15

1. Lend-Lease Act
2. lend
   2a. lease

Question 16

The _________________ declared that the entire western half of the Atlantic was part of the Western Hemisphere and therefore neutral.

Answer 16

Hemispheric Defense Zone

Question 17

In August 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill met and developed the_____________________.

Answer 17

Atlantic Charter

Question 18

The _____________ committed both nations a postwar world of democracy, nonaggression, free trade, economic advancement, and freedom of the seas.

Answer 18

Atlantic Charter

Question 19

Japan depend on the US for many key materials, including:

Answer 19

scrap iorn steel and oil

Question 20

Strategic matericals were items

Answer 20

important for fighting a war

Question 21

In 1941 FDR began sending lend-lease aid to

Answer 21

China and Russia

Question 22

July 1941, Roosevelt froze all ________1___________ assets in the US, __________2___________, and ________3____________.

Answer 22

1. Japanese
2. reduced the oil shipments to Japan
3. and sent MacArthur to the Philippines to build up American defense there

Question 23

American intelligence had decoded Japanese messages that made it clear that Japan was preparing to go to war against the _____________.

Answer 23

US

Question 24

November 27, American commanders at_______1________ naval base received a war warning from Washington D.C. but it did not mention_____2_____ as being a possible target.

Answer 24

1. Pearl Harbor

2. Hawaii

Question 25

________________,______________________,_____________, and _______________, were sunk or damaged.

Answer 25

Eight battleships, three destroyers and four other vessels

Question 26

The Senate voted _____1_____ and the House voted_____2_____ to declare war on Japan.

Answer 26

1. 82 to 0

2. 388 to 1

Question 27

Hitler underestimated the strategy of the US, which was to veiw ______1________ as the larger threat but fight the _____2_____ with the ______3_______.

Answer 27

1. Germany
2. Japanese
3. US Navy

Question 28

On ________________, Germany and Italy both declared war on the US.

Answer 28

December 11

Question 29

The _______________ was the mass extermination of millions of European Jews.

Answer 29

Holocaust

Question 30

The Hebrew term for Holocaust is___________ meaning ___________.

Answer 30

Shoah “catastrophe”

Question 31

Extermination camps were where___________,____________, and ____________ were sent to be executed.

Answer 31

men women and children

Question 32

_________________ was a camp where persons are detained or confined.

Answer 32

Concentration Camps

Question 33

Prominent Jewish emigrants included business people like _________ who resettled his family in Amsterdam in 1933, where his daughter ___________ wrote her well-known diary.

Answer 33

Otto Frank

Anne Frank

Question 34

On January 20 1942 Nazi leaders met at the ______________ to coordinate the “final solution of the Jewish question.”

Answer 34

Wannsee Conference

Question 35

The __________ took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans.

Answer 35

Nuremberg Laws