Quiz: Chapter 35

The War Production Board's main job during World War II was to:

• a. Coordinate the conversion of civilian factories to military production
• b. Draft soldiers into the military
• c. Negotiate peace terms with the Axis
• d. Ration consumer goods

Executive Order 8802, issued in 1941, was significant because it:

• a. Banned discrimination in defense industries
• b. Ended segregation in the military
• c. Authorized Japanese American internment
• d. Created the draft

Executive Order 9066 authorized the:

• a. Internment of Japanese Americans
• b. Rationing of gasoline and sugar
• c. Desegregation of defense industries
• d. Formation of the WPB

Wartime industrial mobilization had which major economic effect?

• a. It effectively ended the Great Depression
• b. It caused mass unemployment
• c. It weakened labor unions permanently
• d. It reduced U.S. industrial output

The Battle of Midway (1942) mattered because it:

• a. Sank four Japanese carriers and shifted naval superiority to the U.S.
• b. Ended the war in Europe
• c. Was the first U.S. victory of the war
• d. Led directly to Pearl Harbor

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Allied forces invaded:

• a. Normandy, France
• b. Sicily, Italy
• c. Okinawa, Japan
• d. North Africa

At the Yalta Conference (1945), Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on all of the following EXCEPT:

• a. Permanent Soviet control of all of Eastern Europe
• b. Dividing Germany into occupation zones
• c. Soviet entry into the Pacific war
• d. The framework for a new United Nations

President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was driven mainly by:

• a. A desire to avoid the massive projected casualties of invading Japan
• b. Pressure from the Soviet Union
• c. Retaliation for Pearl Harbor alone
• d. A United Nations directive