Quiz – Modern U.S.

1. Quiz – Modern U.S.

2. Attitude of Americans toward European affairs in the 1930s • isolationism

3. Official policy of the United States toward European conflicts in the 1930s • neutrality

4. Leader of fascist Italy • Mussolini

5. Leader of Nazi Germany • Hitler

6. Military leader of Japan during WWII • Tojo

7. Emperor of Japan during WWII • Hirohito

8. First Act of Japanese aggression during the 1930s • Invasion of Manchuria

9. Howthe U.S. attempted to stop Japanese aggression (1930s) • embargo

10. The agreement that Hitler broke by invading Czechoslovakia • Munich Pact

11. The German action that began World War II • Invasion of Poland

12. The new German style of war • blitzkrieg

13. FDR’s first effort to aid Britain with weaponry • “cash and carry”

14. Program of “ships for bases” • Lend-lease

15. The statement of Allied Purpose signed by FDR and Churchill • Atlantic Charter

16. 1941– What the U.S. was attacking before being attacked • German submarines

17. The event that brought the U.S. into WWII • Pearl Harbor

18. What Americans were encouraged to buy to support WWII • War bonds

19. What Americans were encouraged to develop in their backyards to support WWII • Victory gardens

20. The limiting of consumer goods during WWII • rationing

21. Character who represented women’s role in WWII • Rosie the Riveter

22. Labor leader who fought for non-discrimination in war time employment • Philip Randolph

23. Immigrants who were encouraged to fill farm jobs during WWII • Mexicans

24. What African American soldiers experienced in the army • segregation

25. Treatment of Japanese Americans during WWII • internment

26. Supreme court case that made Japanese internment constitutional • Korematsu

27. The “Big Three” during WWII • U.S., Great Britain, U.S.S.R.

28. Agreement the Soviet Union had signed with Germany in 1939 • Non-Aggression Pact

29. U.S. program the Soviet Union utilized after being attacked by Germany • Lend - lease

30. What the Soviet Union kept asking for between 1942 and 1944 • A second front

31. The British Air force • RAF

32. Germany’s effort to force Britain into surrender • Battle of Britain

33. Britain and U.S. delayed the invasion of France in order to build these • Bombers

34. What the U.S. was trying to protect by launching Operation Torch • Middle East oil fields

35. The battle that turned the tide on the eastern front of WWII • Battle of Stalingrad

36. Who took control of the Italian peninsula after Italy surrendered • Germany

37. Code name for the invasion of Normandy • Operation Overlord

38. The last German offensive • The Battle of the Bulge

39. The U.S. strategy in the Pacific during WWII • Island Hopping

40. 1942– Naval battle that put Japan on the defensive • Battle of Midway

41. Two island battles that showed how costly an invasion of Japan would be • Iwo Jima and Okinawa

42. Conference at which the U.S. sought Soviet aid in defeating Japan • Yalta

43. Peninsula into which the Soviet Union moved as soon as the war in Europe was over • Korea

44. Cities upon which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs • Hiroshima and Nagasaki

45. The area that Soviet troops occupied at the end of WWII • Eastern Europe

46. The laws that restricted the rights of German Jews • Nuremburg Laws

47. Organized attacks on Jewish businesses in Germany • Kristallnacht

48. The term Hitler used to refer to his effort to eliminate the Jews The final solution

49. The trials of German war criminals • Nuremburg Trials

50. What Nazi war criminals claimed in their defense • “We were just following orders”