3.13 Quiz War'S End

Question: What was the main reason for the rise of dictator in Europe and Asia during the 1930s?

Answer: Dictators promised economic recovery and order.

Question: Why had the United States returned to isolationism by the 1930s?

Answer: People felt World War I had been fought for nothing and wanted to avoid a second conflict.

Question: All of the following describe ways that FDR assisted the Allies before entering World War II except

Answer: offering the surveillance service of military intelligence to allow the British to target the Luftwaffe .

Question: What eventually brought the United States into World War II?

Answer: Japan bombed U.S. ships in Pearl Harbor.

Question: How did the role of women change during World War II?

Answer: Large numbers of women entered both the civilian workforce and military.

Question: During World War II, many African Americans served in the military or worked in the federal government. Many others moved to northern cities to work in industry. What opportunity remained closed to African Americans during the war?

Answer: integrated army regiments

Question: Which was the most serious constitutional question raised by the presences of internment camps in the United States during World War II?

Answer: Most detainees were U.S. citizens held without charges or prospect of a speedy hearing.

Question: What was the main idea behind President Roosevelt’s Four Freedom speech?

Answer: Roosevelt believed security, civil rights, and access to basic needs were universal rights.

Question: The United States ended the war by dropping the first atomic bombs in August 1945. Where did the United States drop the bombs?

Answer: Nagasaki and Hiroshima

Question: Who was not a key U.S. commander in World War II?

Answer: Robert McNamara