Chapter 26

In 1943 the country that pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany was A) The Soviet Union B) China C) Great Britain D) The United States E) Canada

A) the Soviet Union

______, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters planned a march on Washington in 1941 for the rights of black war plant workers.

A. Philip Randolph

In August 19 41 Roosevelt and Churchhill met off the coast of Newfoundland to agree to the

Atlantic charter

Which of the following place names most readily brings to mind appeasement of the Nazis A) Dunkirk B) Munich C) Stockholm D) Warsaw E) Paris

B) Munich

During World War II the fair employment practices commission was created A) to help southern African Americans to move to northern cities to take war jobs B) by President Roosevelt to stop black protesters from marching on the capital C) after serious racial writing broke out in several northern industrial cities

B) President Roosevelt to stop black protesters from marching on the capital

The two largest groups of migrants to American cities during World War II were A) Japanese Americans and African-Americans B) Mexican Americans and Southern whites C) African Americans and Mexican Americans D) native Americans and Chinese Americans E) Southern whites and Japanese Americans

C) African Americans and Mexican Americans

The good neighbor policy of Franklin D Roosevelt applied specifically to A) Canada B) Great Britain C) Latin America D) The Philippines E) japan

C) Latin America

At the January 1943 ______ conference, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to a British plan for the invasion of Sicily.

Casablanca

The neutrality acts of the 1930s were based on the assumption that the United States could stay out of the war by A) ending the depression B) freeing all American colonies C) staying out of the League of Nations D) Banning arms sales to countries at war E) refusing to loan money to belligerent nations

D) bending arms sales to countries at war

Which region of the United States benefited the most from war time spending A) The north east B) The mid west C) The plains D) New England E) The west

E) the west

In the Munich accords of 1938 the French and British agreed to except the German demands and Czechoslovakia in return for Hitler's promise to expand no further

False

In the Spanish Civil War Hitler in with Mussolini supported Francisco Franco while the governments of France Great Britain and the United States provided military assistance to the Republican cause

False

The Panay incident brought the United States and Japan close to war in 1937 when an American battleship accidentally sank a Japanese patrol boat

False

A Senate committee headed by Senator _____ of North Dakota investigated the reasons behind the American entry into World War I.

Gerald Nye

According to your text nothing during World War II raised more wrenching questions of human good and evil then what is known as the _____

Holocaust

Non-neutralized first generation Japanese immigrants and naturalized or native born Japanese American citizens are called _______ and Nisei, respectively.

Issei

Roosevelts 1937 quarantine speech was directed at ____.

Japan

Following his reelection in 1940 president Roosevelt asked Congress to extend _____ to Great Britain

Lend-Lease

The _____ Project, concentrated in New Mexico and Tennessee moved at a faster pace than expected during World War II.

Manhattan

The battle of ______ Pults at the Japanese advance and broke Japanese naval supremacy in the Pacific

Midway

Japanese American citizens were also known as _____ and, if they lived on the West Coast were confined in camps during the war

Nisei

The D-day of France took place along the ______ coast.

Normandy

President Truman met with stone for the first and only time at ____.

Potsdam

Rapid technological advances by American and British scientists in _____ and sonar greatly assisted the allied air and sea war efforts.

Radar

Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met together for the first time at _____.

Tehran

In September 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan entered into defensive alliance called the

Tripartite Pact

At the Yalta conference, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt agreed to the basic plan for the United Nations which included a security council with permanent membership for the United States, Great Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union

True

During World War II the term braceros Applied to Mexican workers who were allowed into the United States for a limited time to work at a specific job

True

President Roosevelt responded to the Nazi invasion of Russia by extending lend lease to Russia

True

Prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the United States knew that a Japanese attack was eminent but it did not know where the attack would take place

True

Franklin Roosevelt's Republican opponent in 1940 was _____

Wendell Willkie

In 1943 President Roosevelt public they suggested that Dr. new deal as he called it had served it's purpose and should give way to "Dr. ______"

Win-the-war

The harnessing of _____ Energy meant no one in the world even the United States was safe anymore

atomic

Because of Anglo hostility toward Latinos focused on pachucos, the Los Angeles city council passed an ordinance making it a crime to wear a ________.

zoot suits

Which of the following place names associated with the daring British naval evacuation of troops from the continent? A) Dunkirk B) Vichy C) Normandy D) Warsaw E) Pearl Harbor

A) Dunkirk

The famous image of "Rosie the Riveter" A) symbolize the erosion of some of the prejudice against women working in traditionally male jobs B) symbolized a permanent change in the status of working mothers in the American economy C) symbolize the continued categorization of women and jobs deemed appropriate for them by male bosses D) showed how woman's work was analogized to their traditional roles in the home E) created permanent negative stereotypes of women in the workforce

A) symbolize the erosion of some of the prejudice against women working in traditionally male jobs

In 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt's decision to give fifty American destroyers to England A) was canceled by Congress B) circumvented The cash and carry provision of the neutrality acts C) was in response to requests by the US ambassador to London D) both circumvented The cash and carry provision of the neutrality acts and was in response to request by the US ambassador to London E) none of these answers are correct

B) circumvented the cash and carry provision of the neutrality acts

Battle of Leyte Gulf A) demonstrated that the Japanese fleet was still strong enough to slow the potential American invasion force B) brought the Soviet union into the Pacific war C) all but destroy Japan's ability to continue serious naval warfare D) stop the Japanese advance in the Central Pacific near Guam and midway E) was the last major battle on the Western front

C) all but destroyed Japan's ability to continue serious naval warfare

The battles of the coral sea and midway was significant in A) Saving the Philippines from being invaded saving the Philippines from being invaded B) sorting the Japanese army's drive through Burma C) stemming the tide of Japanese advances in the Pacific D) dividing the last vestiges of Americans see power from the Pacific E) gaining American support for the war in the Pacific

C) stemming the tide of Japanese advances in the Pacific

A new civil rights organization to mobilize mass resistance to racial discrimination, the _______, came into existence during World War II

Congress of racial equality

The first important Allied victory against Japan was during the battle of ____.

Coral Sea

Between December 1941 and March 19 45 at least 15.3 million people had change their ____ of residence

County

The Munich conference of 1938 dealt with German designs on the country of ______.

Czechoslovakia

George Marshall placed General _____ in charge of the plan for the invasion of France in 1944

Dwight D. Eisenhower

One of the two locations on which the United States dropped atomic bombs was A) Khe Sahn B) Yokohama C) Tokyo D) Okinawa E) Nagasaki

E) Nagasaki

The first area to be liberated from axis occupation by the allies was A) France B) Sicily C) the Balkans D) Poland E) North Africa

E) North Africa

With reference to World War II the term holocaust refers to A) hitler's blitzkrieg against Poland B) hitler's campaign to provide Germans with more living spaces C) American nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki D) The American effort to prevent Hitler's extermination of the Jews E) hitler's campaign to exterminate the Jews

E) hitler's campaign to exterminate the Jews

In 1942 in the United States interned Japanese Americans in relocation centers A) all of the affected Japanese were American citizens B) The west coast of the United States was not an important military region C) all of those affected were first generation Japanese immigrants D) The move was protested by California Attorney General Earl Warren E) there was no evidence that Japanese-Americans were domestic security risk

E) there was no evidence that the Japanese Americans were domestic security risk

In the first year of the war, the ______ campaign tied up a considerable proportion of Allied resources

North African

After Hitler took all of Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1939 Britain and France gave assurances to the country of _____ that they would come to his assistance if it were invaded

Poland

The most important question of the Tehran conference concerned the future of _____.

Poland