History Test Pg. 2

Front 1

Which act required all men between the ages of 16 and 65 to register with their local draft boards?

Back 1

Selective Service Act

Front 2

What act moved the United States from a position of neutrality to the position of a non-belligerent ally of Great Britain?

Back 2

Lend-Lease Act

Front 3

What battle marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific?

Back 3

Battle of Midway

Front 4

What island was the keystone of the Japanese defenses?

Back 4

Saipan

Front 5

What Japanese city was the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb?

Back 5

Hiroshima

Front 6

Where was the UN charter drafted?

Back 6

San Francisco

Front 7

In what year was the United Nations founded?

Back 7

1945

Front 8

What was the first naval battle in history in which the opposing vessels never sighted each other?

Back 8

Battle of Coral Sea

Front 9

What gave the President broad power to control banking policies and to reopen banks as he saw fit?

Back 9

Emergencies Banking Relief Act

Front 10

President Roosevelt and his advisors advocated the economic theories of who?

Back 10

John Maynard Keynes

Front 11

Who was the liberal who opposed the New Deal?

Back 11

Huey Long

Front 12

The abandonment of the _____ shook the public's confidence in the U.S. monetary system.

Back 12

Gold standard

Front 13

The Good Neighbor Policy promoted friendship between the United States and _______.

Back 13

Latin America

Front 14

The _____________ regulated the supply of food in order to increase crop and livestock prices.

Back 14

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Front 15

China and the Soviet Union sided with the ________ in World War 2.

Back 15

Allies

Front 16

__________ was the leader of Hitler's Afrika Korps.

Back 16

Erwin Rommel

Front 17

___________ led the "Flying Tigers" in sorties against the Japanese in China.

Back 17

Claire Chennault

Front 18

________ was the first Axis Power to surrender to the Allies.

Back 18

Italy

Front 19

___________ was the head of the Nazi puppet government in Norway.

Back 19

Vidkun Quisling

Front 20

_________: a member of President Roosevelt's cabinet.

Back 20

Cordell Hull

Front 21

____________ wrote the play "Our Town".

Back 21

Thornton Wilder