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_____organized a march on Washington in 1941 to demand equal pay for black workers.
a) Daniel Inouye
b) kamikaze
c) A. Philip Randolph
d) Benito Mussolini

____counterattack launched by Germans after the D-Day invasion.
a) Battle of the Bulge
b) D-Day
c) Battle of Stalingrad
d) kamikaze

_____tatic of purposely crashing piloted planes into enemy ships.
a) genocide
b) appeasement
c) kamikaze
d) Battle of El Alamein

Excutive Order 9066 allowed the goverment to begin the process of _______, or forced relocation and imprisonment, of Japanese Americans,
a) deportation
b) internment
c) the Coral Sea
d) Treblinka death camp

______ president who ordered use of atomic bombs on Japan.
a) A. Philip Randolph
b) Benito Mussolini
c) Daniel Inouye
d) Harry S. Truman

The Battle of________ in the Philippines was the largest naval battle in history.
a) the Coral Sea
b) China
c) Leyte Gulf
d) Warsaw Ghetto

In April 1943, Jewish people in the ___________ rose up against the Germans, and it took nearly a month for the Nazis to crush the uprising.
a) Treblinka death camp
b) internment
c) deportation
d) Warsaw Ghetto

____ploicy of avoiding war with an aggressive nation by giving in to its demands.
a) genocide
b) appeasement
c) kamikaze
d) D-Day

The Allied Powrs included the United States, Great Britian, the Soviet Union, and_____
a) China
b) Italy
c) Leyte Gulf
d) the Coral Sea

What American general was forced to retreat from the Philippines in March 1942?
a) Hideki Tojo
b) Chester Nimitz
c) Louis Ortega
d) Douglas MacArthur

The United States was expected to be responsible for most of the postwar rebuilding because it______
a) had to make reparations for dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Negasaki.
b) escaped much desruction and was then the strongest power in the world.
c) was given millions of dollars by Germany after Germany surrendeded.
d) had promised to help European countries at hte beginning of the war.

The Bataan Death March caused the death of ________
a) soldiers in the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong.
b) thousands of U.S. soldiers in the Pacific Fleet led by Chester Nimitz.
c) 600 Americans and thousands of fIlipinos.
d) General Douglas MacArthur.

What Tuskegee Airman later became the first African American general in the U.S. Air Force?
a) A. Philip Randolph
b) Benjamin O. Davis
c) Dorie Miller
d) Daniel Inouye

Why di Japan plan a largescale attack against the U.S. naval fleet at Pearl Harbor?
a) It wanted to give itself time to secure control of East Asia before the U.S. miltary could respond.
b) It wanted to retaliate against the United States for freezing Japanese bank accounts.
c) It wanted to punish the United Staes for sending billions of dollars in aid to Chinese Nationalists.
d) It wanted to defend its German and Soviet allies against a U.S. invasion.

The first priority of President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill to defeat the Axis Powers was to______
a) place Asia first.
b) defeat the Germans.
c) attack Italian forces in West Africa.
d) aid Japan in the fight against China.

Harry Truman took over as president because Presisdent Roosevelt___________
a) died of a stroke in April 1945.
b) lost his re-election bid in 1944.
c) chose not to run for a fourth term in 1944.
d) focused his efforts on aid to war-torn European countries rather than on domestic issues.

Why did Hitler direct his anger towards intellectuals, Communists, and Jews in the 1930s?
a) He felt they threatened his authority.
b) He blamed them for Germany's economic problems and its defeat in World War I.
c) They opposed the National Socialist Party, keeping it from winning a majority in Parliament.
d) He was fearful the would band together and start another world war.

What was significant about America's Selective Trianing and Service Act in 1940?
a) It oversaw the conversation of factories to war production.
b) It was the first peacetime draft in the country's history.
c) It allowed Americans to serve in foregin countries.
d) It required both men and women to serve in the army.

Why did Great Britain and France finally declare war on Germany in September 1939?
a) Hitler signed a non aggression pact with Stalin, threatening the Allies.
b) Hitler signed an alliance with Mussolini, forming the Axis Powers.
c) They had pledged to defend Poland against Hitler, who attacked it from the west.
d) They had formed an international army to fight Hitler, whose forces trapped thousands of soldiers in Czechoslovakia.

______extermination of an entire group of people.
a) Battle of El Alamein
b) kamikaze
c) Battle of Bulge
d) genocide

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