1. Unit 13 – World War II America in the War, 1933-1945

2. World War II All of the following have been cited as reasons for the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 EXCEPT the need to (A) block a Japanese invasion of the United States (B) keep the Soviet Union out of the war against Japan (C) save American lives (D) demonstrate American superiority in weaponry to the Soviet Union (E) force the unconditional surrender of Japan A

3. World War II The employment of more than six million women in American industry during World War II led to (A) equal pay for men and women (B) a greater percentage of American women in war industries than anywhere else in the world (C) the establishment of day-care centers by the government (D) a reduction in employment for black males C

4. World War II The underlying issue that led to the outbreak of war between the U.S. and Japan in 1941 was (A) Japanese aid to the Germans in their war against Britain (B) U.S. desire to annex various Pacific islands held by Japan (C) Japanese desire to annex the Aleutian Islands (D) Japanese desire to annex large portions of China (E) American resentment of Japanese trading policies and trade surpluses D

5. World War II During the 1930’s, the Roosevelt administration did which of the following? (A) Ceded the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. (B) Granted immediate independence to the Philippines. (C) Formally renounced the right to intervene in Latin America. (D) Established the Organization of American States. (E) Held a referendum in Puerto Rico on the commonwealth’s entry to the Union. C

6. World War II At the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, FDR and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill agreed (A) to concentrate on beating the Germans first before dealing with the Japanese (B) to shift Allied efforts from the European to the Pacific theater of the war (C) to grant a general amnesty to Axis leaders who would surrender (D) to demand unconditional surrender of the Axis powers (E) to land troops in France in the summer of 1943 D

7. World War II All of the following contributed to the spirit of isolationism in the United States during the 1930s EXCEPT (A) disclosures that munitions manufacturers had lobbied for American involvement in WWI, then profited heavily from the war (B) a foreign policy tradition that could be traced to Washington’s Farewell Address (C) a universal lack of awareness of the goals of the Third Reich (D) memories of the cost, both in financial terms and in human life, of participation in WWI (E) the desire to focus resources on recovery from the Depression rather than on strengthening the military C

8. World War II At the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States found itself (A) fully prepared through complete mobilization and training beginning at the outbreak of the war in Europe (B) almost completely unprepared, with one of the smallest armies in the world (C) with a large and modern navy but an army of under 100,000 men (D) with a large but untrained army of conscripts called up within the past six weeks (E) partially prepared by over a year because of the nation’s first peacetime draft E

9. World War II Congress's first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to (A) revoke all the neutrality laws (B) pass a conscription law (C) enact a new neutrality law enabling the Allies to buy American war material on a cash-and-carry basis (D) call for the quarantining of aggressor nations B