07 World War II and the Home Front Online Quiz Questions

It declared the United States formally at war with Germany in 1939.

It let the United States aid countries fighting the Axis before entering the war.

It required the United States to send troops to defend Poland.

It ended the United States’ formal neutrality by declaring war on Japan.

True

False

True

False

It authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast.

It created rationing rules for defense workers’ families.

It prohibited racial discrimination in defense industries and created a federal committee to address fair employment.

It ordered the armed forces to integrate all military units.

The Holocaust involved the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews.

The Holocaust referred only to the military battles between Germany and the Allied powers.

Nazi Germany and its collaborators also persecuted and killed other groups, including Roma and people with disabilities.

The Holocaust ended before the war began and did not involve forced labor or mass murder.

True

False

Factories shifted from consumer goods to weapons, ships, aircraft, vehicles, and other military equipment.

The government relied only on voluntary donations to pay for the war.

The government used taxes and war bonds to fund the war effort.

Federal agencies ended price controls so that scarce goods would be allocated only by consumer demand.

The United States withdrew from international affairs and dismantled its military after the war.

The United States emerged with substantial military and economic influence and a leading role in postwar institutions.

The United States became a global power solely because it controlled the United Nations.

The United States’ wartime alliance with the Soviet Union permanently prevented later rivalry.

To encourage families to buy more consumer goods before factories changed production

To direct scarce goods toward military needs and help limit inflation

To replace taxes and war bonds as the main way to fund the war

To ensure that factories continued producing mostly civilian products

It required Japanese Americans to leave the United States after individual trials found them guilty of espionage.

It created a federal committee to prohibit racial discrimination in defense industries.

It authorized military exclusion zones that led to the forced removal and incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry without individual evidence of a threat.

It established military service units for Japanese Americans but left their homes and property protected from government seizure.

It was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews, alongside the persecution and killing of millions of other people.

It was the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans by the United States government.

It referred only to military battles between Nazi Germany and Allied forces.

It was the postwar movement of European refugees to the United States.

To establish military exclusion zones and coordinate the relocation of civilians

To create a common Allied plan for rescuing Europe’s Jews as a primary military objective

To organize the production of weapons and aircraft in U.S. factories

To create the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank as part of a framework for postwar economic cooperation

The United States emerged as a global power mainly because it withdrew from international affairs and dismantled its military.

Its immense industrial capacity, large military, and global influence helped establish the United States as a global power.

Its wartime economy remained focused on consumer goods, leaving it with little capacity to support other countries.

It became a global power primarily by taking control of the postwar governments of Germany and Japan.