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World War II

World War II. Who was president during World War II?. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Identify the Lend-Lease Act. A law which allowed the President to sell, lease , or lend defense equipment to nations which the President considered vital to American security

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World War II

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  1. World War II

  2. Who was president during World War II? • Franklin D. Roosevelt

  3. Identify the Lend-Lease Act. • A law which allowed the President to sell, lease, or lend defense equipment to nations which the President considered vital to American security • Allowed FDR to help the British against Germany

  4. What event started World War II ? • Hitler invaded Poland.

  5. What event brought the U.S. into World War II? • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

  6. What were the Axis nations during World War II? • Germany • Italy • Japan

  7. Who was the leader of Germany during World War II? • Adolf Hitler

  8. Who were the Allies in World War II? • Great Britain • the Soviet Union • the United States

  9. Who was the leader of Great Britain during World War II? • Winston Churchill

  10. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II? • Joseph Stalin

  11. What strategy did the Allies follow? • Defeat Hitler First

  12. In what battle in North Africa did the British defeat German forces, thereby denying Hitler control over the Middle Eastern oil fields and preventing Hitler from attacking the Soviet Union from the south?

  13. El Alamein

  14. What happened at the Battle of Stalingrad? • Soviet army defeated the Germans • Prevented the Germans from seizing the Soviet oil fields • Turned the tide against the Germans on the eastern front

  15. What happened at the Normandy landings (D-Day)? • American and Allied troops landed in France. • Liberation of Western Europe had begun.

  16. Who was the commander of the Allied forces at the D-Day invasion? • Dwight D. Eisenhower

  17. What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific? • The Battle of Midway

  18. What was the Allied strategy in the Pacific? • Island hopping

  19. The invasions of what two Pacific islands brought American forces closer to Japan? • Iwo Jima • Okinawa

  20. How did the United States end the war in the Pacific? • Dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  21. During World War II, when men left the factories to serve in the armed forces, who often took their jobs?

  22. Women

  23. Were the United States armed forces racially segregated during World War II? • Yes

  24. During World War II, what group of African-American flyers served with distinction in Europe? • The Tuskegee Airmen

  25. During World War II, what Japanese-American regiments earned a high number of decorations for bravery? • Nisei regiments

  26. What Native American language was used by the U.S. military during World War II for communication codes in the Pacific? • Navajo

  27. What international agreement established rules for the humane treatment of prisoners of war? • The Geneva Convention

  28. What happened on the Bataan Death March? • American POWs in the Philippines suffered brutal treatment by the Japanese

  29. What was the Holocaust? • Nazi Germany’s systematic murder of European Jews.

  30. What was Hitler’s “final solution?” • Exterminate (kill) all the Jews in Europe

  31. What were the Nuremberg Trials? • Trials of Nazi leaders for war crimes

  32. In 1948 what nation was founded by Jewish settlers living in Palestine? • Israel

  33. How did the U.S. maintain an adequate supply of products for the war effort? • Rationing: each family received a monthly allowance of essential items (sugar, gasoline, meat)

  34. How did the Roosevelt administration finance World War II? • War bonds • The federal income tax

  35. What African-American leader led the fight for desegregation of the armed forces and equal hiring in defense jobs. • A Philip Randolph

  36. What was the Selective Service Act? • 1940 law which established the first peacetime draft in American history

  37. What happened to most Japanese-Americans during World War II? • Relocated to internmentcamps, where they were required to stay until the end of the war

  38. What was the role of the American media and entertainment industries during World War II? • Promoted Nationalism

  39. Define nationalism. • A strong feeling of patriotism or devotion to one’s country

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