Question 1
1 Point
The period of time between 1920 and the U.S. entry into World War II has been called an age of isolationism.


True

False

Question 2
1 Point
FDR really wanted to help the Allies, especially the Brits, who after the French surrender in 1940 were the only ones actually fighting the Nazis until 1941, when there were a whole lot of Russians also fighting them.


True

False

Question 3
1 Point
D-day was the beginning of the end of the Nazis.


True

False

Question 4
1 Point
Russians did most of the fighting in Europe, losing at least 20 million people and in the end it was the Russians who captured Berlin, Germany.


True

False

Question 5
1 Point
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th and on Nagasaki on August 9th.


True

False

Question 6
1 Point
Who is held responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews during this time period?


Adolf Hitler


Benito Mussolini


Hideki Tojo


Joseph Stalin


Question 7
1 Point
What was the legislation that authorized military aid (in the form of a loan) to countries after the war?


Lend Lease Act


Foreign Aid Act


Dollar Diplomacy


Containment of Communism


Question 8
1 Point
World War II brought about even more governmental intervention and control than we had seen in World War I.


True

False

Question 9
1 Point
The war kicked the American economy into overdrive. By 1944 American factories were producing an airplane every five minutes and a ship everyday.


True

False

Question 10
1 Point
Government expenditures during war were twice the amount they had been in the previous 150 years.


True

False

Question 11
1 Point
Los Angeles became the second largest manufacturing center in the country, meaning that it was not built by Hollywood, it was built by World War II.


True

False

Question 12
1 Point
Organized labor continued to grow as well, with union membership soaring from around 9 million in 1940 to almost 15 million in 1945


True

False

Question 13
1 Point
In 1944 FDR called for a new Economic Bill of Rights that would expand governmental power in order to create full employment, and guarantee an adequate income, medical care, education, and housing to all Americans.


True

False

Question 14
1 Point
FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights did not happen largely because Southern Democrats in the House and Senate didn’t want it to because it would have meant a larger role for unions and also extending greater equality to African Americans, and they weren’t about to let that happen.


True

False

Question 15
1 Point
Executive Order 9066 in February 1942 expelled all persons of Japanese descent from the west coast. 70% of Japanese Americans lived in California and as a result of this order more than 110,000 people were sent to internment camps where they lived in makeshift barracks under the eyes and searchlights of guards. (almost like Nazi concentration camps, but in America)


True

False