Quiz #8 Flashcards
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
” I worked in building number 11. I pulled a lot of gadgets on a machine. The shell slid under and powder went into it. Another lever you pulled tamped it down. Then it moved on a conveyor belt to another building where the detonator was dropped in. You did this over and over.”
A. Joe Louis
B. Peggy Terry
C. Jose Diaz
D. Rosie the Riveter
E. Sgt. Bill Maudlin
B. Peggy Terry
For most of the war, the “Big Three” allied leaders were
A. Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill
B. Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini
C. Truman, Stalin, Chamberlain
D. Roosevelt, Stalin, Chamberlain
E. Roosevelt, Churchill, Chamberlain
A. Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill
Which of the following best describes African American participation in the armed forces during World War II?
A. Blacks largely resisted the draft because of racial discrimination.
B. Blacks joined enthusiastically because the army had ended segregation.
C. African Americans joined despite racial discrimination and prejudice
D. African Americans were not allowed to join the military.
C. African Americans joined despite racial discrimination and prejudice
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
A. Executive Order 8802; Attack on Pearl Harbor; Battle of Midway; Bombing of Hiroshima
B. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia; D-Day; Bombing of Hiroshima
C. German invasion of Poland; Allied liberation of Paris; V-J Day; V-E Day
D. Operation Barbarossa; Hitler-Stalin pact; Battle of Stalingrad; Yalta Conference
E. Executive Order 9066; D-Day Invasion of Normany; Battle of Midway; Bombing of Hiroshima
A. Executive Order 8802; Attack on Pearl Harbor; Battle of Midway; Bombing of Hiroshima
Spanish town terror bombed by the German Air Force in 1937; later depicted by Pablo Picasso:
A. Nanking
B. Madrid
C. Guernica
D. Palermo
C. Guernica
Which of the following does NOT describe an aspect of the impact of World War II on American society?
A. Women and minorities felt resentment at being barred from military service
B. Women found new economic opportunities despite little change in gender attitudes.
C. Military life served as a melting pot, as well as taking Americans far from home.
D. It brought recovery from the stagnation and unemployment of the Great Depression.
A. Women and minorities felt resentment at being barred from military service
By 1945, women made up ________________ of the workforce on the home-front.
A. about one third
B. about one quarter
C. almost 70 percent
D. almost 15 percent
A. about one third
The fascist movements of Italy, Germany, and Japan embraced all the following ideals except
A. the need for territorial expansion.
B. the abolition of private property
C. a belief in the beneficial impact of war.
D. the needs of the nation outweighed the needs of the individual.
B. the abolition of private property
Why did the German Luftwaffe begin to strike targets in England in the summer of 1940, starting the Battle of Britain?
A. German bombers were supposed to prepare a ground invasion
B. Germans knew they could not invade England and aerial bombing was the only option.
C. American troops had landed in England ready for an invasion of Germany.
D. Germans knew of secret weapons programs on the British Isles
A. German bombers were supposed to prepare a ground invasion
Women’s roles during the war included all of the following except
combat soldiers.
To assist Great Britain after the fall of France in 1940, President Roosevelt
devised ways to provide aid without going to war, such as Destroyers for Bases and the Lend Lease program.
The vast majority of Nazi Germany’s war casualties occurred
on the Eastern Front.
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
“The Japanese Race is an enemy race and while many second and third generation Japanese born on American soil, possessed of US citizenship, have become Americanized, the racial strains are undiluted.”
Gen. John Dewitt
The Allies were successful in their invasion of Normandy because
Hitler thought they were arriving at a different location and delayed sending troops to Normandy.
June 6, 1944, was the date of
Operation Overlord (D-Day), the Allied attack across the English Channel at Normandy.
The battle that turned the tide against the Japanese navy in the Pacific in June 1942:
Battle of Midway
Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers’ Party embraced all of the following except
Communism.
Japan’s military leaders called their own imperial vision of Asia
the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
The policy of “appeasement” became infamous after British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain agreed to the Munich
Pact in 1938; this pact allowed Nazi Germany to occupy what region?
the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
What did President Franklin D. Roosevelt promise American voters in his re-election campaign of 1940?
The United States would become “the great arsenal for democracy.”
In January 1942, the Wannsee Protocol called for
the “final solution to the Jewish problem”
Icon of US propaganda campaign to encourage women to work in war-related industries:
Rosie the Riveter
Adolf Eichmann’s defense at his 1960 War Crimes trial was that:
he was just following orders
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
FDR War Message
Collectively the Allies, despite early defeats, enjoyed significant strengths that would bring victory in the long haul, including all EXCEPT
a professed public commitment to Wilsonian ideals as outlined in the 14 Points.
