World War 2 Test

Question 1

How did the Treaty of Versailles help cause World War 2?

Answer 1

Germans felt their cut of the treaty was unfair

Question 2

What types of things caused World War 2?

Answer 2

Treaty of Versailles, League of Nations, Depression, Appeasement

Question 3

What was the League of Nations?

Answer 3

League of Nations only job was to ensure that war never broke out again

Question 4

How did Appeasement Cause World War 2?

Answer 4

Because of appeasement Hitler thought that we would let him do whatever he wanted and get away with it, so why stop. Appeasement encouraged Hitler to continue his rein of power and death.

Question 5

What were the Axis Powers (Or Enemies)

Answer 5

Japan, Germany and Italy

Question 6

What were the Allied Powers? (Or the Good Guys)

Answer 6

Great Britain, United States and Soviet Union (USSR-Russia)

Question 7

How did America come out of Neutrality?

Answer 7

America passed the Neutrality Act of 1939 (cash and carry) Thus opening its waters to buyers of war supplied (although FDR was very Allied assist pro)

Question 8

What is cash and carry?

Answer 8

September 21st 1939 The revision allowed the sale of materiel to belligerents, as long as the recipients arranged for the transport using their own ships and paid immediately in cash, assuming all risk in transportation

Question 9

What was the Lend and Lease Policy?

Answer 9

March 11th 1941 was a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel

Question 10

What were the Four Freedoms?

Answer 10

A speech by FDR on January 6th 1941 FDR states the four freedoms are:
Freedom of Speech and Expression
Freedom for each person to worship God in their own way
Freedom from want
Freedom from Fear

Question 11

What type of Fighting Strategy was used in WW2

Answer 11

Gorilla Warefare

Question 12

How is Pearl Harbor Relevant to WW2?

Answer 12

Pearl Harbor is the reason why America entered the war. December 7th 1941 The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

Question 13

Why Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor?

Answer 13

Knowing that Pearl Harbor had mostly navy they decided to attack by plane
Location was convenient for Japan because it was so close to America and Japan but not on the coast (the Japanese feared getting caught and sent back)
War Materials
To break our spirit

Question 14

Europe First

Answer 14

Defend Europe and push Germans out and then Attack Japan

Question 15

Island Hopping

Answer 15

After Pearl Harbor America used the Island hopping technique to defeat Japan

Question 16

D-Day

Answer 16

On June 6th 1944 Allies hit Germany with force. On two beaches Germans had dug trenches and made holes and prepared and planted mines and such so when the first soldiers took a step onto the land they were surrounded by war and death. Germany was forced out of Latvia, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary.

Question 17

What date did Leading Generals try to overthrow Hitler?

Answer 17

July 20th 1944

Question 18

What was Coral Sea and Midway

Answer 18

War between America Australia vs Imperial Japan In an attempt to strengthen their defensive positioning for their empire in the South Pacific, Imperial Japanese forces decided to invade and occupy Port Moresby in New Guinea and Tulagi in the southeastern Solomon Islands.

Result: Japanese tactical victory
Allied strategic victory
Japanese invasion repelled

Question 19

American Home Front: Woman

Answer 19

Found work while men were at war. Showed woman can contribute more to society than just raising the kids,some woman stayed at work when the husbands came back.

Question 20

American Home Front: African Americans

Answer 20

Discrimination still existing even from the army

Some African Americans were allowed to enter the army and although it may not seem like a lot this was a huge advancement in Society for America

Question 21

American Home Front: Hispanic Americans

Answer 21

As marines it was a melting pot and everyone learned to get together by respecting one another’s codes

Question 22

American Home Front: Economy

Answer 22

Cost money to provide jobs for people to make war materials making the depression even worse

Government funded Day care for kids with 2 working parents

Question 23

American Home Front: Family and Daily Life

Answer 23

People were convinced the more they sacrificed the closer they would feel to the army

Had we gone into war earlier production would have started sooner

Question 24

Executive order 9066

Answer 24

February 19, 1942 approved deportation of Japanese Americans to internment camps.

Question 25

Executive order 8802

Answer 25

June 25, 1941 prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry.

Question 26

Rationing and Recycling

Answer 26

During the war everything seemed to be rationed or in short supply: gasoline and fuel oil and rubber; bobby pins and zippers and tin foil; shoes and whiskey and chewing gum; butter and coffee and nylons and tomato ketchup and sugar; canned goods and cigarettes and the matches needed to light them.

Question 27

Double V Campaign

Answer 27

Black women fought a “Double V” campaign—against the Axis abroad and against restrictive hiring practices at home. Their efforts redefined citizenship, equating their patriotism with war work, and seeking equal employment opportunities, government entitlements, and better working conditions as conditions appropriate for full citizens

Question 28

Diplomacy

Answer 28

is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states.

Question 29

Yalta

Answer 29

Meeting place for FDR Winston Churchill and Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin in Yalta

February 4-11 1945

Leaders discussed progress in war

Talked conditions in which Soviet Joined war