TEST

Question 1

Johnson act

Answer 1

Forbade the sale of European bonds on in the US by any government that defaulted on its payment obligations

Question 2

NYE committee

Answer 2

From Gerald Nye of ND
concluded that weapons makers and bankers had spurred U.S. intervention in the European conflict in 1917 and were continuing to “help frighten nations into military activity.”

Question 3

NEUTRALITY act 35

Answer 3

prohibited Americans from selling weapons or traveling on ships owned by nations at war.

Question 4

Neutrality act 37

Answer 4

allowed Roosevelt to require that nonmilitary American goods bought by warring nations be sold on a cash-and-carry basis

Question 5

4 freedoms of speech

Answer 5

Freedom of speech
Freedom of worship
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear

Question 6

Lend lease act

Answer 6

Allowed US to lend / lease arms 2 any country considered violent to the defense of the US

Question 7

Atlantic charter

Answer 7

Secret meeting between Churchill and FDR

Listed war goals of allied powers

Question 8

DDAY

Answer 8

Large invasion of mainland France
Allied force of 3.5 million forces
Germans were slow to respond
Estimated 10000 allied casualties

Question 9

Battle of coral sea

Answer 9

Off coast of Australia
Aerial battle between planes launched from carriers
No clear winner

Question 10

Doolittle raid

Answer 10

Lt. Doolittle led 16 bombers in an attack on Tokyo and other cities

Attack did little damage

Question 11

Battle of midway

Answer 11

Naval battle between midway island in the central pacific

US destroyed 4 Japanese carriers

Question 12

GUADALCANAL

Answer 12

Where US wins 1st major land victory

Question 13

Holocaust chronology

Answer 13

Nazis open dachau
Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
Nazis issue a decree
Nazi party is declared only legal party

Question 14

Iwo Jima

Answer 14

23,000 US troops killed or wounded in order to take Iwo Jima

Victory marked by the raising of US flag atop Mt. Suribachi

Question 15

Battle of Okinawa

Answer 15

Japanese defended island

Last hurdle before the US would invade Japan

Mass suicide by Japanese to make US wonder if they will ever surrender

Question 16

Yalta conf

Answer 16

Polish question
Future of Germany and declaration on liberated Europe
Conditions for the entry of the Soviet Union into war with Japan

Question 17

Allied powers

Answer 17

Germany

Italy Japan

Question 18

Neville chamberlain

Answer 18

British prime minister

Question 19

Eodouard daladier

Answer 19

French prime minister

Question 20

Winston Churchill

Answer 20

member of the British Parliament

Question 21

Munich pact

Answer 21

transferred the Sudetenland to Germany

Question 22

Joseph Stalin

Answer 22

antifascist Soviet premier

Question 23

NA 1939

Answer 23

allowed Britain and France to send their ships to the United States to bring back American military supplies.

Question 24

Manhattan project

Answer 24

top-secret effort to develop an atomic bomb

Question 25

Hirohito

Answer 25

Japan’s Emperor

Question 26

War production board

Answer 26

directed the conversion of industries to war production

Question 27

WAC

Answer 27

Women’s branch of the United States Army; by the end of the Second World War nearly 150,000 women had served in the WAC.

Question 28

North African campaign

Answer 28

British and American forces landed in Morocco and Algeria on the North African page 1184 coast (“Operation Torch”)

Question 29

May 8th

Answer 29

VE

Victory