1) (1939 - 1945) A war fought in Europe, Africa and the Pacific between the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers a) World War II b) United Nations c) Pearl Harbor d) internment e) atomic bomb f) Holocaust 2) a naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941: led the U.S to enter WWII a) atomic bomb b) D-Day c) Pearl Harbor d) home front e) island hopping f) United Nations 3) Allied military strategy of conquering Pacific islands that were important to the advance toward Japan a) atomic bomb b) island hopping c) rationing d) Pearl Harbor e) totalitarianism f) home front 4) The governments of Germany, Italy, and Japan before World War II used a political system in which the government,or dictator, has total control over the lives of individual citizens. a) rationing b) United Nations c) totalitarianism d) Pearl Harbor e) democracy f) Holocaust 5) an international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, cooperation and promote human rights, the freedom and security that belongs to all people a) island hopping b) internment c) totalitarianism d) United Nations e) atomic bomb f) home front 6) weapon used by United States on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in an effort to quickly end WWII a) rationing b) Pearl Harbor c) home front d) atomic bomb e) totalitarianism 7) a mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II. a) rationing b) Holocaust c) home front d) Pearl Harbor e) democracy f) internment 8) In reaction to the attack on Pearl Harbor, a policy of putting Japanese-Americans in detention camps during World War 2 a) rationing b) United Nations c) internment d) World War II e) home front f) D-Day 9) the limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy, often used during wartime, when goods are in short supply a) home front b) atomic bomb c) Holocaust d) rationing e) D-Day f) World War II 10) Allied invasion on June 6, 1944 to take back France from Germany a) D-Day b) Holocaust c) Pearl Harbor d) Totalitarianism e) island hopping f) World War II 11) Required all men ages 21-35 to register for the draft (it was later expanded to include all men aged 18-64) a) the Maginot Line b) the Selective Service Act c) Operation Sea Lion d) the Luftwaffe e) the Lend-Lease Act 12) passed in March 1941, allowed Great Britain to buy U.S. weapons on credit a) the Maginot Line b) the Selective Service Act c) the Lend-Lease Act d) the Luftwaffe e) Operation Sea Lion 13) 2nd generation Japanese-Americans a) Nisei b) Tojo c) Korematsu 14) an image of a strong woman hard at work at a munitions factory a) Nisei b) WAC c) Bracero Program d) Rosie the Riveter e) Tuskegee Airmen 15) the Air Force's first African American unit, the 99th Pursuit Squadron a) Nisei b) WAC c) Bracero Program d) Rosie the Riveter e) Tuskegee Airmen 16) stimulated emigration of legal temporary Mexican workers to the United States through a 1942 labor agreement between the U.S. and Mexico a) the Great Santini b) WAC c) Bracero Program d) Rosie the Riveter e) Tuskegee Airmen 17) a population shift called ___ occurred when African Americans moved from the rural South to the industrialized cities in the North and West in search of employment a) Bracero Program b) the Great Migration c) the Home Front 18) these people sent messages about U.S. battle plans by telephone and radio in a code based on their language; the Japanese were unable to decipher it a) Anishinabe Code Talkers b) Navajo Code Talkers c) Dakota code Talkers d) Ojibwe Code Talkers 19) in 1944, the Supreme Court ruled in Korematsu v. United States, that the internment camps were ___ a) lawful and constitutional (not against the law) b) unconstitutional (illegal) 20) The Bracero resulted in Mexican and native workers working long hours for less pay, while growers benefited from plentiful, cheap, labor. a) true b) false 21) President Roosevelt established ___ to combat discrimination in industries that held government contracts. a) Executive Order 9066 b) the Fair Employment Practices Commission (F.E.P.C.) c) CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) 22) was established in 1942 with the idea of using non-violent methods to protest discrimination a) Executive Order 9066 b) the Fair Employment Practices Commission (F.E.P.C.) c) CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) 23) Wartime production  a) helped pull the US out of the Depression b) enabled more women to enter the workforce c) created more jobs for minorities d) led to the US entering the Depression 24) On ___ the US declared war on Japan. a) November 11, 1918 b) December 8, 1941 c) August 14, 1945 d) May 7, 1945 25) a program of research and development undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons a) the Manhattan Project b) the Bracero Program c) the Long Island Project d) the Einenheimer Program

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