Standard 8 EOC Review

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Standard 8 EOC Review
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• 1. Which of the following is true about the
  United States in the days prior to the above
  headline, which is announcing the Japanese
  attacks on Pearl Harbor ?
• a. The United States was at war with Germany, but
  not Japan.
• b. The United States was at war with both Germany
  and Japan.
• c. The United States was at war with Japan, but
  not Germany.
• d. The United States was not at war with Germany
  nor Japan.

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• 2. What was the Lend Lease Act?
• a statement of war aims compiled by Roosevelt and
  Churchill
• a non-aggression pact between Germany and the
  Soviet Union
• a policy allowing the President to provide arms
  to certain foreign countries
• an order to shoot German U-boats on sight

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• 3. What event was the last straw that drew
  France and Britain into the war with Germany?
• a. Hitler took power in Germany
• b. Germany attacked Poland
• c. Germany attacked Czechoslovakia
• d. Germany pulled out of the League of Nations

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• 4. What was Germany last attempt to break Allied
  lines? (the last German offensive)
• a. Battle of Britain
• b. Battle of Stalingrad
• c. Battle of Midway
• d. Battle of the Bulge

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• 5. D-Day was
• the allied invasion of France
• the allied invasion of Germany
• the allied invasion of Stalingrad
• the allied invasion of Japan

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• 6. It was important for the U.S. to gain these
  two islands so they could bomb Japan.
• Okinawa and Midway
• Okinawa and Tokyo
• Iwo Jima and Coral Sea
• Iwo Jima and Okinawa

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• 7. Trumans aim in deciding to drop the atomic
  bomb was to
• find out how destructive the bomb was
• teach Japanese military leaders a lesson
• end the war and save American lives
• punish Japan for the attack on Pearl Harbor

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• 8. Many propaganda posters promoted all of the
  following except
• rationing
• buying war bonds
• joining the armed forces
• becoming a communist

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• 9. The Holocaust is an example of genocide
  because
• anti-Semitic ideas were broadcasted throughout
  Europe.
• it was the deliberate extermination of a
  specific group of people.
• a nations citizens were abused by their own
  government.
• discrimination of the Jews was based on gender.

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• 10. Who was convicted of war crimes at the
  Nuremberg Trials?
• Soviet occupants of Eastern European countries
• Developers of the Atomic Bomb
• Nazi Leaders
• Japanese War Criminals

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• 11. Which of the following leaders transformed
  the Soviet Union into a communist state and the
  worlds second leading industrial power?
• Stalin
• Hitler
• Lenin
• Mussolini

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• 12. Which nation(s) signed a non-aggression pact
  with Germany that led to the invasion and
  division of Poland.
• Italy
• Spain
• Italy and Japan
• Soviet Union

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• 13. This Japanese attack on the island of Oahu
  is what brought the United States into WWII.
• Iwo Jima
• Maui
• Pearl Harbor
• Honolulu

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• 14. At the end of WWI, many new democracies were
  established in Europe. In the years between the
  two World Wars, what happened to most of these
  democracies?
• they thrived
• they were overthrown by the U.S.
• they were torn apart by Civil Wars
• they were replaced by dictatorships

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• 15. Hitler invaded these two nations in 1937
  and 1938.
• Austria and Poland
• Austria and Czechoslovakia
• Czechoslovakia and Poland
• Austria and Denmark

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• 16. Where did the United States drop the atomic
  bomb?
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Hiroshima and Okinawa
• Okinawa and Iwo Jima
• Iwo Jima and Guatal Canal

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• 17. After the death of FDR, __________ became
  President of the United States.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Teddy Roosevelt
• John F. Kennedy
• Harry S. Truman

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• 18. The GI Bill of Rights provided veterans with
• Loans for education
• Loans for housing
• Loans to start new businesses
• All of the above

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• 19. These Americans were relocated to internment
  camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
• German Americans
• Japanese Americans
• Mexican Americans
• African Americans

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• 20. FDR and Churchill met secretly to sign this
  document which was the basis for the Declaration
  of the United Nations.
• Pacific Charter
• Yalta Charter
• Atlantic Charter
• NATO Charter

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Standard 8 EOC Review

• 1. D 11. A
• 2. C 12. D
• 3. B 13. C
• 4. D 14. D
• 5. A 15. B
• 6. D 16. A
• 7. C 17. D
• 8. D 18. D
• 9. B 19. B
• 10.C 20. C

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Study Slide Standard 8

• Nationalism Battle of Midway
• Totalitarianism Kamikaze
• Fascism Iwo Jima
• Joseph Stalin Okinawa
• Benito Mussolini Manhattan Project
• Adolf Hitler Hiroshima Nagasaki
• Hideki Tojo VJ Day
• Appeasement WAAC
• Blitzkrieg Office of Price Administration
• Pearl Harbor War bond
• Allied Powers GI Bill of Rights
• Axis Powers Rationing
• Charles de Gaulle Japanese Internment camps
• Atlantic Charter Holocaust
• Lend Lease Act Nuremberg Laws
• Battle of Stalingrad Nuremberg Trials
• D-Day Yalta Conference
• Battle of the Bulge The Big 3
• VE Day Rape of Nanking