1. How did the Bataan Death March impact the war?
A. It proved to be a military turning point for the Allies.
B. It intensified anti-Japanese feelings in the United States.
C. It made the invasion of Guadalcanal possible.
D. It demonstrated a weakness in the Allies’ Pacific theater strategy.

2.What common items used today were invented during the war because of a need to replace rationed items?
A. antibiotics
B. synthetic fabrics
C. color televisions
D. computers

3.Why did President Truman decide to drop the first atomic bomb?
A. to destroy Japan’s power to make war
B. to justify the expense of the Manhattan project
C. to destroy Japanese culture
D. to retaliate against the Bataan Death March

4. This excerpt discusses the effects of the atomic bombings on the inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Select the highlighted phrase that explains what sight caused the terror Japanese people experienced after the bombings.

Aside from physical injury and damage, {the most significant effect of the atomic bombs was the sheer terror which it struck into the peoples} of the bombed cities. {This terror, resulting in immediate hysterical activity and flight from the cities,} had one especially pronounced effect: {persons who had become accustomed to mass air raids had grown to pay little heed to single planes or small groups of planes,} but {after the atomic bombings the appearance of a single plane caused more terror and disruption of normal life} than the appearance of many hundreds of planes had ever been able to cause before. The effect of this terrible fear of the potential danger from even a single enemy plane on the lives of the peoples of the world in the event of any future war can easily be conjectured.

5. Which of the following statements characterizes Germany in the 1920s?
A. The rate of unemployment fell sharply.
B. The country became more unified politically.
C. The German Communist Party lost many of its members.
D. The country faced severe economic problems.

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7. Drag the following events of the early years of World War II into the correct chronological sequence to arrange them from earliest to most recent.
.The Battle of Britain began
.Britain and France declared war on Germany
.Germany invaded the Low Countries and France
.Germany invaded Poland

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9. What did the United States government do to encourage businesses to convert factories to wartime production?
A. threatened legal action on corporations.
B. cut taxes on manufacturing significantly.
C. guaranteed profits on the goods U.S. businesses produced.
D. offered to pay part of the production expenses.

10.What opportunities did the war provide to women that they did not enjoy before?
A. They were able to gain wealth by saving their husbands’ military paychecks.
B. They were able to use the new technologies the war created in their homes.
C. They were able to learn new ways of being frugal through food rationing.
D. They were able to work in careers that had previously been exclusive to men.

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