Chapter 25
How did women who remained at home contribute to the American war effort?
By planting victory Gardens of home grown vegetables
By the summer of 1942, the Japanese had conquered which of the following?
Dutch East Indies
Which group was forced to train in segregated camps, live in segregated barracks, and serve in segregated units during World War II?
African Americans
The Double V campaign called for both victory in the war and victory for
African Americans fighting racial prejudice at home
What explained the reluctance of the United States to accept Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression?
Anti-Semitism
How did President Roosevelt justify the proposed Lend-Lease Act in January 1941?
By citing the need to defend freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom to want, freedom to fear and other ideals
How many American women saw combat duty during World War II?
0
Which of the following describes the majority of American women who entered the labor force during World War II?
They weren't married
About how many soldiers and sailors served in the US armed forces by the end of World War II?
16 million
Why did president Roosevelt authorize the roundup and internment of all Americans of Japanese descent in 1942?
A large number of people believed that Japanese Americans were potential sources of espionage and subversion
What occurrence made April 30, 1945, a turning point in the war?
Adolf Hitler killed himself in his underground bunker
What was the immediate consequence of the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor on December 7, 1941?
Congress endorsed Roosevelt's call for a declaration of war
The allied assault against the German army on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, is commonly known as
D day
What event sparked the beginning of World War II?
Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939
Who succeeded President Roosevelt in the White House after his death on April 12, 1945
Harry Truman
Why did Roosevelt fail to suppor the League of Nations attempts to keep the peace by condemning Japanese and German aggression?
He feared jeopardizing isolationists' support for New Deal measures
Which of the following occurred as a result of the Nazi-Soviet treaty of nonaggression in August 1939?
Hitler's invasion of Poland.
What was demonstrated during the six month battle to force the withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal in February 1943?
It would be extremely costly and difficult to defeat Japan
Which nation, in an effort to increase its global power, invaded the northern Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931?
Japan
The Battle of Midway signaled to the American military that
Japanese domination of the Pacific was weakening
Who headed the War Production Board, which set production priorities and pushed for maximum output during World War II?
Low paid business leaders
Who offered Adolf Hitler terms of appeasement in hopes of getting the German dictator to leave Czechoslovakia alone?
Nenelle Chamberlain
How did President Roosevelt respond to A. Philip Randolph's plans to organize a march of 100,000 on Washington, DC in 1941?
Outlawed discrimination by defense contractors
What technological development ultimately led Hitler to withdraw the infamous U-boats from the North Atlantic?
Radar Detectors
Why did the United States fail to act on reports of Hitler's genocidal atrocities?
The American public and its officials believed the reports were exaggerated.
What was the significance of the Battle of Britain in 1940?
The British victory handed Hitler his first major defeat.
What was the conclusion of the Nye committee's 1933 report on World War I?
The greed of American monitions markers, bankers and financeers was responsible for the nation's entry into WW1.
Which of the following statements describes the relationship between American ethnic minorities and the armed forces during World War II?
They fought in large numbers in the armed forces despite discriminatory treatment.
How did American labor unions respond to the production demands of World War II?
They granted the governments request that they pledge not to strike.
What factors made it possible for dictators to gain and maintain power in Nicaragua and Cuba after the implementation of the good neighbor policy?
They had private support from US businessmen and tacit support from the Roosevelt Campaign
What was the goal of Roosevelt's "good neighbor" policy
To form a less belligerent, more cooperative relationship with Latin America.
What was the purpose of the Lend-Lease Act of 1941?
To make arms, munitions, and other supplies available to Britain
What was the objective of the Neutrality Act of 1937?
To prevent increasing American involvement in European affairs
How did the US government respond to the Spanish Civil War?
Took neutrality
What did African Americans who migrated to take jobs in defense industries during World War II experience in their new locations?
Widespread racial violence
At their meeting in Casablanca in January 1943, Allied leaders Roosevelt and Churchhill
announced that they would accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of Germany and Italy
The United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki only three days after the attack on Hiroshima
because Japanese didn't surrender immediately
The primary mission of Japanese kamikaze pilots was to
defend okinawa from US troops
In the Tripartite Pact of 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan agreed to
form a defensive alliance among imperial powers
A reluctant isolationist, President Roosevelt believed during the 1930s that
free trade was necessary for America's domestic Prosperity
The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was part of the Japanese plan to
knock out a significant portion of American Naval bases in the Pacific.
In February 1945, the Big three met a Yalta to discuss
post war self-determination for the people of Eastern Europe
In the Atlantic Charter in August of 1941, the United States and England agreed to
protect the freedom of the seas, free trade, and their right of National Self-Discrimination
As the Allies closed in on him in December 1944, Hitler ordered a desperate counterattack through Belgium known as
the battle of the Bulge
Why did American scientists begin to develop a superbomb in 1942?
they did't want the Germans to develop one first
