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5 Written Questions

1. Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships.
2. supervised the conversion of industries to war production. For example, automakers shifted from making cars to trucks and tanks.
3. military blockade
4. established legal basis in Nazi Germany for discrimination against Jews.
5. protective measures in case of attack. For examples, in the during WWII volunteers scanned the skies for enemy aircraft and coastal cities enforced blackouts

5 Matching Questions

1. WAVES
2. Operation Overlord
3. Mobilization
4. Maginot Line
5. Dictator

1. a The Allied invasion of Normandy in June of 1944.
2. b Political leader who rules a country with absolute power, usually by force
3. c String of steel and concrete bunkers along the German border from Belgium to Switzerland set up by the British and French
4. d Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service in the Navy
5. e the gathering of resources and preparation for war.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approve by Congress in March 1941; The act allowed America to sell, lend or lease arms or other supplies to nations considered “vital to the defense of the United States.”
   1. Neutrality Acts
   2. Appeasement
   3. Lend-Lease Act
   4. Genocide
2. April 1942, American soldiers were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps by their Japanese captors. It is called the Death March because so may of the prisoners died en route.
   1. Bataan Death March
   2. Death Camps
   3. Cash and Carry
   4. Battle of the Bulge
3. raised corporation taxes and required nearly all Americans to pay income taxes.
   1. Internment Camps
   2. Revenue Act of 1942
   3. George Patton
   4. Lend-Lease Act
4. Women’s Army Corps
   1. WACs
   2. Annex
   3. Nazism
   4. Siege
5. an aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance.
   1. Battle of the Bulge
   2. Battle of Britain
   3. Harry S. Truman
   4. Joseph Stalin

5 True/False Question

1. Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact → Approve by Congress in March 1941; The act allowed America to sell, lend or lease arms or other supplies to nations considered “vital to the defense of the United States.”
   

   True        False

2. Death Camps → camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany for the purpose of killing prisoners immediately.
   

   True        False

3. Nazism → The doctrines of nationalism, racial purity, anti-Communism, and the all-powerful role of the State. The National Socialist German Workers Party, otherwise known as the Nazi Party. Nazism was advocated by Adolf Hitler in Germany.
   

   True        False

4. Harry S. Truman → 33rd president of the United States. He assumed the presidency at the death of FDR in 1945 and served until 1953. Under his leadership the United States saw the end of the Second World War with the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan and also the establishment of the Truman Doctrine for foreign policy, which seeks to limit the spread of Communism.
   

   True        False

5. Battle of the Bulge → Term used to describe the actions following the German offensive through the Ardennes forests in December 1944.
   

   True        False