WORLD WAR 2 TEST+1 ST SEMESTER REVIEW UNIT 2/3 APUSH TEST REVIEW 1) Which colony was considered a waste can/sewer for religious dissidents? a) New York b) Rhode Island c) New Hampshire d) Georgia e) S.C. 2) The first example of the Social Contract Theory in America was the a) Fundamental Orders of Conn b) Virginia House of Burgesses c) Mayflower Compact d) Constitution e) Bill of Rights 3) What time period is incorrectly matched? a) Colonial- 1607-1732 b) Pre-Columbian-Before 1492 c) Settlement Period- 1492-1607 d) Antebellum-1100-1400 e) all are correct 4) Starving time a) Was in Jamestown b) resulted in eating leather and rats c) might have resulted in Most inhabitants of the New World 5) motto in Virginia was you don t work, you don t eat. a) John Rolfe s b) John Smith s c) Squanto s d) Pocahontas e) Edward Winslow s JAMESTOWN A OR PLYMOUTH (MBC) B OR BOTH 6) Migrated as families and congregations 7) Created to be a city upon a hill (religious utopia) 8) The French and Indian War a) resulted in the American Revolution b) involved land disputes on the Ohio River Valley between French and Indians c)was ironic because even thought d) resulted in the annexation of the Louisiana te 9) The fundamental principle of mercantilism is: a) individuals should be free to pursue competition b) did not generate wealth for mother countries c) slowed economic growth in Europe d) encouraged Americans to become self sufficient e) the wealth of the mother country is based on amount of wealth it accumulates (exports should exceed imports) 10) Which Revolutionary battle/conflict is incorrectly matched? a) Battle of Trenton-won by colonists because Hessians were hung over from Christmas celebration b) Yorktown-turning point of the AR, led to mercenaries joining the British c) Boston Massacre-propagandized event where Crispus Attucks and 5 people died in 1770 d) Saratoga-Turning pt. because the French allied with the Americans
11) The Articles of Confederation a) lacked a legislative branch b) created an efficient way to raise revenue for the colonies c) lacked a President and Supreme Court and was extremely hard to amend d) is the longest lasting document in American history e) none are correct 12) The colonists rejected a) virtual representation b) The Olive Branch Petition c) The Declaration of Independence d) Common Sense e) None 13) The Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts were a result of the a) Boston Massacre b) Boston Tea Party c) Lexington and Concord d) Siege of New York City e) Fundamental Orders of Connecticut WWII TEST 14) The Nuremburg Trials resulted in a) More hangings than the post war Japanese war crimes tribunals b) Remorse by many Nazis c) the interment of the Japanese Americans d) the interment of Italians and Germans e) none are correct 15) The turning point in the Pacific Theater was a) Coral Sea b) Okinawa c) Pearl Harbor d) Mt. Suribachi s Charge 16) The largest land, sea, and air invasion in history was a) V-E Day b) Pearl Harbor c) Battle of the Bulge d) Battle of Britain e) none are correct 17) Which person in incorrectly matched? a) Gen. Eisenhower-Allied Commander of the Italian Campaign b) Gen. MacArthur-abandoned POW s at the Philippines c) Harry S. Truman- accidental American president who decided to drop A-Bombs on Japan) d) FDR-American president in Great Depression and almost to end of WW2 e) all are correct 18) April of 1945 a) saw Hitler commit suicide b) saw FDR die from polio complications c) saw Mussolini be shot by Italians and hanged from his toes and a gas station d) Japan surrender e) A-C Only 19) The U.S. s philosophy at the beginning of the war was a) to open up a front in Russia b) get Hitler first in Europe c) make Japan pay for Pearl Harbor d) end the Holocaust e) none are correct
20) Before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor a) An undeclared war already existed with Germany in the Atlantic b) The U.S. had frozen all Japanese assets c) Most of the American people were opposed to entering the war d) FDR and Churchill had met and come up with the Atlantic Charter 21) What is the correct chronological order of events? a) Atlantic Charter, Kellogg Briand Pact, Potsdam, V-E Day, V-J Day b) Kellogg Briand, Atlantic Charter, Potsdam, V-E Day, V-J Day c) Kellogg Briand, Atlantic Charter, V-E Day, Potsdam, V-J Day d) Potsdam, Atlantic Charter, V-E Day, V-J Day, Kellogg Briand 22) Which conference is not matched correctly? a) Atlantic Charter- FDR and Churchill meet to discuss a plan to win WW2 b) Tehran Conference-Pre WW2 Conference to reduce naval stockpiles c) Yalta-Big 3 meet to discuss post WW2 Europe d) Potsdam- Truman, Churchill (later Atlee) and Stalin meet to discuss post WW2 Germany 23) The Double V campaign a) was an African American effort to end racism at home and abroad b) was an effort to end anti-semitism at home and abroad c) was an effort by repatriates to fight in WW2 d) was an effort by the Nisei to enter WW2 on Japan s side 24) Japanese Americans during WW2 a) Volunteered to fight on the U.S. s side before Pearl Harbor and were among the most decorated units in WW2 b) Were interred in camps like Manzanar c) Were discriminated against because of Pearl Harbor d) Were interred on a Presidential Order (9066) and it was upheld by the Supreme Court (Korematsu vs. the U.S.) 25) The turning point in the Pacific, Western Theater, and Eastern Theater were,, and respectively. a) Iwo Jima, D-Day, and Poland b) Midway, D-Day, and Stalingrad c) Okinawa, Battle of Britain, Stalingrad d) Coral Sea, Battle of Britain, Stalingrad
26) Rosie the Riveter a) Helped earn suffrage rights for women before WW2 b) Was symbolic propaganda of women s role in total war c) Was a member of NAWSA and the NAACP d) Was essential in helping sell war bonds 27) Total war can best be exemplified by a) Rationing b) Funding the war through bonds c) Propaganda d) Consumer good production to military good production 28) The determined what military goods would be produced during WW2 while the OPA set for agricultural goods. a) TVA, standards b) War Industries Board, limits c) War Production Board, subsidies d) War Production Board, prices e) CCC, production maximums 29) The GI Bill a) Provide a range of benefits for returning WW2 vets b) Included low cost loans, college tuition, and unemployment benefits c) Is still present today d) Is also known as the Servicemen s Readjustment Act 30) Which is the correct order of America s neutrality to all out involvement during WW2? a) Cash and carry, Lend-Lease, Freezing Japanese assets, Pearl Harbor, D-Day b) Lend-Lease, Cash and carry, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, freezing Japanese assets c) Isolationism, Intervention, D-Day, Pearl Harbor, freezing German assets, d) Freezing German and Japanese assets, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, V-E Day A-WWI B-WW2 C-BOTH D-Neither 31) Women take up the slack in factories 32) U.S. public opposed to direct involvement on the eve of war 33) Majority of Americans oppose war once we get involved 34) Germany, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary form an alliance 35) U.S., Great Britain, France, and Russia form an alliance 36) Island hopping in the Pacific, Trench warfare on the Western front
37) Post WWII foreign policy was centered on a) Containment b) The Red Scare c) Isolationism d) Internment 38) What minority had the most people serve in WWII? a) Native Americans b) African Americans c) Japanese Americans d) Mexican Americans e) women 39) Which is incorrect about comparing the Holocaust and Nisei interment? a) The Holocaust was an attempt to commit genocide on an entire race of people whereas the Japanese interment was a executive order by FDR b) Both resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths c) The Holocaust was a result of the Final Solution while the internment of Japanese was a result of Exec. Order 9066 d) The U.S. government paid only the Nisei reparations e) All are incorrect 40) In terms of aggressive imperialistic actions, which is incorrect (between 1930-1945) a) Japan invaded Manchuria b) Italy invaded Ethiopia c) Germany invaded Austria and the Sudetenland d) All are correct e) All are incorrect 41) Which battle is incorrectly matched? a) Battle of the Bulge- Hitler s last offensive b) D-Day -turning pt. in the Western European theater c) Battle of Stalingrad-Turning pt. in Russia d) Battle of Midway-Turning pt. in the Pacific 42) In 1940, a) The U.S. was still neutral but giving about as many supplies to the Axis and Allied powers b) The U.S. had a peacetime draft c) The U.S. was not preparing for war d) FDR got elected to a 4 th term 43) War bonds resulted in a) A decrease in patriotism b) A decrease in inflation by taking money out of the economy c) A decrease in wartime propaganda d) A decrease in men who were drafted e) An increase in women on the front lines
44) Which is true about the amount of government money spent during WWII? a) It exceeded the money spent by our government from 1789 to 1930 combined b) It was less than the amount of money that the government spent on WWI c) Combined with inflation, it prolonged the Great Depression d) Helped women and Mexicans get higher paying jobs 45) During WWII, a) The labor movement experienced no strikes because they were outlawed b) African Americans served in integrated units c) Income taxes were decreased d) The sale of bonds by the government decreased 46) Which is correct about WWII socially? a) The Double V campaign ended African Americans struggle for civil rights b) The American government paid $20,000 to survivors of internment camps (Japananese) c) The only ethnic group interred was Japanese Nisei d) Korematsu v. U.S. Supreme Court ruling stated the internment of Nisei was unconstitutional 47) The most logical argument for dropping the atomic bomb in Japan a) Was that a traditional invasion would cost between ½ a million to 1 million lives (between ¼ and ½ Americans) b) Repayment for Pearl Harbor c) To show Germany our atomic might d) To prevent Japan from another Pearl Harbor 48) Which term in incorrectly matched? a) Merchants of death- Industry that benefited from WWII b) GI Bill- Servicemen s Readjustment Act benefiting veterans who returned home to the U.S. c) Zoot Suit Riots- A series of radical protests against the draft by African Americans d) Bracero program-agreement between the U.S. and Mexico to bring laborers to America because of the wartime shortage e) Manhattan Project-secret codename for atomic bomb project 49) Which is correct chronological order of events? a) Italy surrenders, V-E Day, Atomic bombs dropped in Japan, V-J Day b) V-J Day, Italy surrenders, V-E Day, atomic bombs dropped in Japan c) Atomic bombs dropped in Japan, Italy surrenders, V-E Day, V-J Day d) V-E Day, V-J Day, Atomic bombs dropped in Japan, Italy surrenders
50) Which statement is not true about WWII? a) It led indirectly to the Cold War b) It led to enemies becoming Allies(Japan) and Allies becoming enemies(soviet Union) c) It led to the death of 60 million people d) It was the only attack on U.S. soil in American history-ever e) None are incorrect 51) The Allied/Axis county that suffered the most deaths in order were: a) Soviet Union/Germany b) U.S./Japan c) China/Soviet Union d) France/Britain 52) U.S. deaths in WWII are only exceeded by death during a) WWI b) Korean War c) Vietnam War d) The Civil War e) None of the above 53) WW2 resulted in a) The U.S. joining the United Nations b) The U.S. joining the League of Nations c) Affirmative Action for African Americans d) Native Americans being forced off their land in the Southeast 54) The Tuskegee Airmen were a) Enlisted African Americans who trained as single engine, twin engine and bombardier pilots b) subjected to racial discrimination, both within and outside the army c) were involved in the Italian campaign d) human, they actually had 27 bombers shot down 55) The first meeting of the Big Three was at a) Tehran b) Potsdam c) Yalta d) Moscow e) Casablanca
56) Island hopping a) Was an American strategy to fight on key Pacific islands, one after another, to come within striking distance of mainland Japan b) Was quick and resulted in few American and Japanese casualties c) Involved victories at London and the Battle of the Bulge d) Was made easier by the willingness of Japanese to surrender the first chance they were given 57) Total war in America during WWII included a) Rationing b) Victory gardens c) Recycling and conservation d) Fashion modifications e) All are true 58) U.S. diplomatic actions prior to Pearl Harbor a) Included an embargo on oil b) Led to the U.S. freezing Japanese assets c) Included economic sanctions that were not effective d) Worsened after Japan invaded Manchuria 59) Post war Japan a) Included war crimes tribunals but allowed Hirohito to remain in charge while Tojo was executed b) Allowed Japan to leave their military dictatorship in place while replacing the Emperor c) Did not change the military and government of Japan d) Became a nemesis for the United States for 50 years and became their biggest enemy 60) After WWII, a) Berlin was divided into 4 occupation zones b) Germany increased the size of their military back to post WWI Germany c) The Soviet Union allowed free elections in Poland d) There were very few refugees in Europe