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WWII Quiz

Completion
Complete each statement.

1. Japanese pilots who flew their bomb-filled planes directly into vessels of the Allied fleet were known as
___________________________.

2. A special group of people were trained by the U.S. to use secret codes to send messages in the Pacific. This
group of people were known as ________________________.

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

Japan Times and Mail, April 19, 1924
The Senates Declaration of War
There is no denying that the adoption by the American Senate of the exclusion amendment to the Immigration
bill has given a shock as has never before been felt...(T)he Senate has passed, with an almost overwhelming
majority, an amendment they know is most humiliating to the Japanese race.

____ 3. Why did the Japanese Times and Mail call the Immigration Quota Act of 1924 a Declaration of War?
a. The Japanese Empire decided to declare
war on the U.S. before bombing Pearl
Harbor.
c. The Japanese people were extremely
offended by the Act, and felt they were
being told they werent good enough to
live in America.
b. The Immigration Quota Act stopped
Americans from entering Japan, which is
considered a Declaration of War.
d. The Immigration Quota Act was
Californias way of declaring war on the
Japanese people.

An old order...(European and American)...is now crumbling. The ideals of Japan...are represented by the
principle that the benevolent rule of the Emperor may be extended so as to embrace the whole world.
Japanese Ministry of Education, excerpt from The Way of the Subjects

____ 4. According to this excerpt, how does the Japanese Ministry of Education view European and American
countries in relation to their own?
a. The world will no longer be ruled by
Europe and America, but instead by Japan.
c. European and American countries are
allies of Japan.
b. European and American countries are too
powerful for the Japanese Empire to
overcome.
d. The world will no longer be ruled by
Japan, but instead by European and
American nations.

____ 5. Which of the following is not a factor that influenced why Americans were afraid of the Japanese during
WWII?
a. The mainland press whipped up
sensationalist stories about Japanese
sabatoge.
c. The Japanese were non-white and
non-European.
b. Most Japanese lived on the east coast and
midwest, where fear of Japanese invasion
was strongest.
d. Japanese immigrants had not assimilated
into American culture well.


____ 6. Why was Korematsu arrested?
a. For dating a non-Japanese woman. d. For living in Oakland, CA in 1942.
b. For implementing Japanese internment
camps.
e. All of the above.
c. For taking his case to the Supreme Court.

____ 7. The U.S. government instituted price controls to cap the maximum price of certain goods sold in order to fight
inflation (the price of goods rising rapidly). Why would the price of goods be inflating during this time?
a. Increased war production meant that there
were more consumer goods in the
marketplace, so prices rose.
c. The governments regulation of labor
unions caused prices to rise.
b. More women in the workplace caused
prices of consumer goods to rise.
d. Many industries were being converted to
produce war materials which meant there
were fewer consumer goods available, so
prices rose.

____ 8. What was the Double V campaign?
a. The campaign to get victory for
democracy at home and democracy
abroad.
c. The campaign to ration goods and plant
victory gardens.
b. The campaign to increase womens wages. d. The campaign to help labor unions
negotiate conflicts.

____ 9. Why was the Battle of Okinawa significant to the American forces at the Pacific Front?
a. Control of Okinawa gave American B-29s
a place to land in emergency.
c. The invasion of Okinawa boosted morale
for the U.S. effort.
b. Control of Okinawa gave Americans a
prime staging area for the invasion of
Japan.
d. All of the above.


____ 10. Why did U.S. forces use a strategy known as leapfrogging?
a. Smaller islands captured by U.S. forces
could be used as an airbase to bomb the
Japanese-held bigger islands.
c. It allowed them to capture islands that
werent well defended and bypass an
island that was more heavily defended.
b. It enabled Americans to go on the
offensive with limited resources.
d. All of the above.


____ 11. Which of these organizations managed the production of civilian indsutries into war industries?
a. War Production Board c. NWLB
b. National War Labor Board d. War Industries Board
WWII Quiz
Answer Section

COMPLETION

1. ANS: Kamikaze pilots

PTS: 1

2. ANS: Navajo Indian code talkers

PTS: 1

MULTIPLE CHOICE

3. ANS: C PTS: 1

4. ANS: A PTS: 1

5. ANS: B PTS: 1

6. ANS: D PTS: 1

7. ANS: D PTS: 1

8. ANS: A PTS: 1

9. ANS: B PTS: 1

10. ANS: D PTS: 1

11. ANS: A PTS: 1

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