In what year did the United States enter World War I?
C.1917
U.S. in the World Wars
Test your knowledge of American involvement in World War I and World War II.
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Who was the U.S. president when America entered World War I?
C.Woodrow Wilson
On what date did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
C.December 7, 1941
Who was the U.S. president for most of World War II?
B.Franklin D. Roosevelt
In what year did the United States enter World War II?
B.1941
The sinking of which ship by a German U-boat helped turn American opinion toward entering World War I?
B.Lusitania
In what year did the Lusitania sink?
B.1915
D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, occurred in what year?
A.1944
Which U.S. general led the Allied forces in Europe during World War II and later became president?
A.Dwight D. Eisenhower
The United States dropped the first atomic bomb on which Japanese city?
A.Hiroshima
In what year did World War II end in Europe (V-E Day)?
A.1945
Which U.S. general led the Pacific theater and accepted Japan's surrender?
B.Douglas MacArthur
The League of Nations was proposed by which U.S. president?
A.Woodrow Wilson
Who became U.S. president after Franklin D. Roosevelt died in April 1945?
B.Harry S. Truman
The United States did not join the League of Nations because the Senate rejected the Treaty of what?
B.Versailles
The Zimmerman Telegram, which helped push the U.S. toward war in 1917, proposed an alliance between Germany and which country?
D.Mexico
In what year did Congress pass the Selective Service Act, establishing the draft for World War I?
C.1917
The Battle of Midway in 1942 was a turning point in the war in which ocean?
B.Pacific
Which conference in 1945 saw Truman, Churchill, and Stalin plan the postwar world?
D.Potsdam Conference
The American Expeditionary Forces in World War I were commanded by which general?
D.John J. Pershing
The Lend-Lease Act of 1941 allowed the U.S. to supply which countries before entering World War II?
A.Allies (Britain, USSR, etc.)
V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day) was in what year?
D.1945
The attack on Pearl Harbor took place in which U.S. territory (later state)?
A.Hawaii
Which U.S. naval base was attacked on December 7, 1941?
A.Pearl Harbor
The Manhattan Project developed what?
A.The atomic bomb