APUSH chapter 26/27
In August 1944, the Allies liberated from German occupation the city of
Paris
In the last months of 1949, events in the Soviet Union and China included
Russia's successful test of an atomic weapon.
In 1943, the country that pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany was
The Soviet Union
A significant issue in the 1944 election was
The domestic economy
In 1949, President Harry Truman succeeded in getting Congress to pass
aid for public housing
In 1943, to simplify tax collections, Congress enacted
automatic payroll deductions
Between the Yalta Conference and his death, President Franklin Roosevelt
became increasingly concerned, though not without hope, that Stalin was not going to fulfill conference agreements.
During World War II, the U.S. military
began to relax its practices of racial segregation
The United States was motivated to develop the Marshall Plan in 1947 due to
both a humanitarian concern for the European people, and a desire to create strong European markets for American goods.
In designing the structure of the new United Nations, planners called for
each nation on the Security Council to have veto power over the others.
In the 1948 presidential election,
early polls had seemed to indicate that Harry Truman would lose.
The Battle of the Bulge
ended serious German resistance in the west.
In early 1945 at the Yalta Conference,
it was agreed the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War
In World War II, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to
mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions
President Harry Truman's actions after the 1946 election included
proposing a major civil rights bill
In 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command because MacArthur
publicly criticized President Truman's policy in Korea
In 1945, when the United States Senate considered the proposed United Nations, it
quickly ratified the agreement by a large majority
During World War II, the United States military services
quietly tolerated illicit heterosexual relationships.
During the Korean War, the Truman administration faced major strikes in the industries of
rail and steel
During World War II, American women who worked outside the home
tended to be older than women who worked in the past
All of the following statements regarding Korea are true EXCEPT that
the United States left Korea in 1946
The 1950 National Security Council report known as NSC-68 stated
the United States must resist communism anywhere it developed in the world
In 1947, the first target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was
the movie industry
Most employed women during the war worked in
the service sector
During World War II, the Allied development of the Gee navigation system
used electronic pulses to plot course location
Following World War II, the great majority of working American women
wanted to keep working
During World War II, the regional impact of government spending was the greatest in the
west
During World War II, Chinese Americans
All these answers are correct.
During World War II, the effectiveness of German U-boats and underwater mines was greatly reduced by the development of
All these answers are correct.
In 1947, the Truman Doctrine
All these answers are correct.
In 1945, President Harry Truman conceded to communist authority in
Poland
In 1943, in a meeting in Casablanca, the Allies decided they would next invade
Sicily
In 1945, Joseph Stalin's vision of a postwar world in which great powers would control strategic areas of interest was largely shared by
Winston Churchill
In early 1943 at a meeting in Casablanca,
Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt agreed the Axis powers must surrender unconditionally
In 1942, the United States and Mexico agreed to the braceros program, which
admitted Mexican contract laborers into the United States for a limited time
President Harry Truman initially decided to "get tough" with the Soviet Union
after his first few days in office
In 1948, President Harry Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by
airlifting supplies to West Berlin
All the following statements regarding the "zones of occupation" of Germany in 1945 are true EXCEPT that
all of Berlin was to be placed under Soviet control
The U.S. government acquired definite knowledge of the Holocaust
as early as 1942.
During World War II, the Fair Employment Practices Commission was created
by President Roosevelt to stop black protesters from marching on the capital
The Truman administration responded in 1950 to the onset of fighting in Korea by
calling on the United Nations to intervene
The Soviet Union's 1948 blockade of West Berlin was primarily a response to the
creation of a unified West Germany.
All of the following were Allied advances in intelligence-gathering in World War II EXCEPT the
creation of the Purple machine for coded communications.
The initial response by the American public to the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur was
criticism with President Truman
In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all.
During World War II, American shoppers
faced many shortages of consumer goods.
During World War II, the War Production Board
favored large over small contractors
In 1942-1943, the British and American war effort against the Nazis concentrated on
fighting in North Africa and southern Europe.
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
gave economic and education subsidies to veterans.
In 1945, when Harry Truman became president, he
had almost no familiarity with foreign affairs.
During World War II, in the United States, all of the following social indicators experienced a rise in their rate of occurrence EXCEPT
high school enrollment
The Supreme Court case of Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) dealt a blow to
housing discrimination
A 1948 public opinion poll revealed that a majority of Americans believed atomic power would
in the long run, do more good than harm
The 1943 "zoot-suit riots" in Los Angeles
led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suits
By 1945, the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek had
little popular support
The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942
marked the first important victory by the United States against Japan.
The immediate cause of the Korean War, in 1950, was the
military invasion by North Korea into South Korea
In 1949, the Truman administration made progress in civil rights by
ordering an end to discrimination in the hiring of government employees
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
permitted the "union shop."
The American invasion at Inchon during the Korean War
prompted President Truman to try and push communists out of North Korea
Regarding European Jewish refugees, between 1939 and 1945, the United States
refused to accept large numbers of refugees
During World War II, Germany held the technological edge over the Allies in
rocket-propelled bombs
Between 1939 and 1945, the federal budget of the United States
rose over ten-fold.
During World War II, the labor force of the United States
saw fifteen million people leave civilian labor for the armed forces
During World War II, American Indians
saw the war effort undermine efforts to revitalize tribal traditions
In the years immediately following World War II, the United States policy toward Asia led
the Truman administration encourage the rapid economic growth of Japan
All of the following statements regarding the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II are true EXCEPT that
the United States government has never admitted wrongdoing
Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was
the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.
President Harry Truman's Fair Deal called for
the creation of national health insurance
All of the following statements regarding the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 are true EXCEPT that
the landing was made across the narrowest part of the English Channel.
In 1942, when the United States interned Japanese Americans in "relocation centers,"
there was no evidence that the Japanese Americans were a domestic security risk
In April 1945, American and British forces halted their advance on Germany at the Elbe River
to wait for the Russian army to arrive.
In 1948, the Americans for Democratic Action
tried to draft Dwight Eisenhower for president
During World War II, the National Defense Research Committee
was headed by a scientist who was a pioneer in the development of the computer.
Over the course of World War II, inflation in the United States
was much less serious a problem than during World War I
U.S. aid through the Marshall Plan
was offered to the Soviet Union.
During the mid-1940s, the American economy
was plagued by serious inflation
The government of Syngman Rhee in Korea after World War II
was pro-Western
The 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf
was the largest naval engagement in history
During World War II, organized labor in the United States
won automatic union memberships for new defense plant workers
Which of the following is true of organized American labor during World War II?
"Wildcat" strikes were the most common.
The National Security Act of 1947
All answers are correct
At the conclusion of the Yalta Conference in 1945, basic disagreements remained on
All these answers are correct.
In February 1945, an Allied bombing attack on Dresden, Germany
All these answers are correct.
The Allied decisions that delayed an invasion of France
All these answers are correct.
The Battle of Midway in 1942
All these answers are correct.
The Smith-Connally Act of 1943
All these answers are correct.
As a result of the Korean War, the
American public believed there was something wrong with the United States
In 1942, in the North African campaign against the Nazis, the
Americans successfully regrouped from a defeat at Kasserine Pass.
After 1943, the United States advanced on Japan primarily with the aid of forces from
Australia and New Zealand
During World War II, Congress abolished the
CCC and WPA
In February 1944, American naval forces won a series of victories in the Marshall Islands, under the command of
Chester Nimitz
In World War II, one of the primary American commanders in the Pacific was
Chester Nimitz
In the 1944 elections,
Democrats increased their control of the House
At the Tehran Conference in late 1943,
Franklin Roosevelt promised an Anglo-American second front within six months
During World War II, the United States Army chief of staff was
George Marshall
All of the following statements regarding the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers are true EXCEPT that
Hiss was convicted of espionage
During World War II, the first Axis country to be defeated was
Italy
The costliest battle in the history of the United States Marines Corps was the Battle of
Iwo Jima
During World War II, Allied bombers targeted
None of these answers is correct.
