Unit 7 Test Review



Unit 7 Test Review

1. When did WWII officially begin?

2. Which was the first major Allied to fall to Germany?

3. What event caused the US to enter WWII?

4. Which nation was responsible for the Holocaust?

5. What was the name of the historic battle that occurred on the German border?

6. What was Hitler’s greatest mistake in WWII?

7. What was Sputnik I?

8. What new form of music became very popular after the war?

9. Which US ally from WWII adopted communism in 1949?

10. The anti-communist crusades of the 40s, 50s, & 60s created a climate of

a. suspicion & fear

b. dissent & civil disobedience

c. optimism

d. security

10. Who was Joseph McCarthy?

11. What was the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan?

12. Define the United Nations

13. Define the Cold War.

14. What was the difference between the Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall?

15. Where did the D-Day invasion occur?

16. Who did the US place in internment camps?

17. What was the greatest advantage of the Allies during WWII?

18. Why did Hitler sign a nonaggression pact with the Soviets in 1939?

19. One of the most important domestic results of the war effort was the

a. loss of power of organized labor

b. end of discrimination for African-Americans

c. revitalization of the Federal Reserve System

d. rapid end of the Great Depression

19. What was the US plan of action, regarding their forces, in 1942?

20. What was the German style of warfare called?

21. Who led the Allied forces in the Pacific?

22. What was Island Hopping?

23. What was the Manhattan Project?

24. During WWII, which nation suffered the most military deaths?

25. Who coined the term Iron Curtain?

26. What did the US government decide to pass after FDR was elected to 4 straight terms in office?

27. What is a Levittown?

28. What was the strange occurrence in the 1948 election?

29. What was the US response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948?

30. Why did North Korean communists attack South Korea?

31. After World War II, French Indochina exploded into warfare as Ho Chi Minh and his followers battled for independence from France. Which of the following countries was once part of the colony known as French-Indochina?

e. South Korea

f. North Korea

g. Vietnam

h. Formosa

31. What was NATO?

32. Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" provided America with an insight into the attitudes and feelings of which post war social trend?

33. What technological advancement produced great social changes in US culture?

34. What was the Final Solution?

35. Why did the US decide to drop the A-bomb on Japan?

36. Why was the spread of communism a major concern after WWII?

37. Which US general lead the liberation of the Philippines?

38. Which US admiral led the defense of Midway Island?

39. Who commanded the D-Day invasion?

40. Who lead Communist Russia?

41. Who was the Prime Minister of England?

42. BY the time the U.S. entered WWII, the Allies

A) were fighting on the Pacific front

B) had defeated Italy

C) were losing on all fronts

D) were taking back North Africa

43. What was the Allied strategy to win the war?

44. Which Battle in the Pacific marking the turning point against Japna?

45. Allied victories in Normandy and Bulge were against which Axis Power?

46. Identify the FALSE choice. By the summer of 1942, Germany had conquered

A) Denmark B) Belgium C) France D) Russia

46. Identify the FALSE choice. The Germans were defeated because

A) the Russian campaign cost many lives & money

B) they spread their armies too thin

C) Hitler’s generals ignored his military advice

D) they underestimated the power of the United States

47. What two cities did the US drop the Atomic Bomb on?

48. Define the S.C. case Kormatsu v. the United States.

49. Who was the leader of Fascist Italy?

50. When Japan and Germany began their aggressive actions overseas, many Americans believed that its two great oceans protected the U.S. The passage of which law, however, showed that Americans were beginning to have doubts about this "traditional" defense?

a. the Neutrality Act of 1935

b. the Neutrality Act of 1937

c. the Selective Training and Service Act

d. the Johnson Debt Default Act

51. Which program or law was a distinct departure from U.S. neutrality and movement toward a policy of support for the Allies?

a. the Washington Naval Conference

b. the Lend-Lease Act

c. the Kellogg-Briand Pact

d. the Selective Training and Service Act

52. The Lend-Lease Act is best associated with which phrase?

a. "arsenal of democracy"

b. "a war to end all wars"

c. "make the world safe for democracy"

d. "we shall never surrender"

53. During the early 1920s, the U.S. hoped that the communist government of the Soviet Union would fail. By mid-1941, the U.S. was sending the Soviets military and economic aid. Why did U.S. policy change?

a. Soviet rule during the early 1940s was less dictatorial than that of

the early 1920s.

b. The U.S. feared the growing power of the fascist dictatorships.

c. Socialist economic policies were viewed as an answer to the Great

Depression.

d. Joseph Stalin had proven himself more trustworthy than had Nicolai

Lenin.

54. Wanting to aid Great Britain and other nations in their war with Germany but not wanting the U.S. to be dragged into the war because of domestic isolationist sentiment, F.D.R. called for the

a. passage of the Lend-Lease Act

b. deployment of a volunteer citizen army

c. development of the atomic bomb

d. formation of NATO

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