HIS 1053 Chapter 26 Review

Which of the following is true of organized American labor during WWII?

"Wildcat" strikes were the most common

The first atomic explosion in history took place in 1945 in

Alamogordo, New Mexico

All of the following statements regarding the Allied developments of an atomic bomb during WWII are true EXCEPT that

Albert Einstein was in charge of the development program

In 1943, in the North African campaign against the Nazis, the

Americans successfully regrouped from a defeat at Kasserine Pass

After 1943, the US advanced on Japan primarily with the aid of forces

Australia and New Zealand

During WWII, Congress abolished the

CCC and WPA

In February 1944, American naval forces won a series of victories in the Marshall Islands, under command of

Chester Nimitz

In WWII, one of the primary American commanders in the Pacific was

Chester Nimitz

In the 1944 elections

Democrats increased their control of the House

During WWII, the US Army chief of staff was

George Marshall

During WWII, the first axis country to be defeated was

Italy

The costliest battle in the history of the US Marines Corps was the battle of

Iwo Jima

In 1939, the first steps toward the creation of an atomic bomb were taken by

Nazi Germany

In August 1944, the Allies liberated from German occupation the city of

Paris

In 1943, in a meeting in Casablanca, the Allies decided they would next invade

Sicily

During WWII, the regional impact of government spending was the greatest in the

West

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

In mid-1945, evidence of Japan's desperation to continue the war included

all of these answers are correct

During WWII, American shoppers

all these answers are correct

During WWII, Chinese Americans

all these answers are correct

During WWII, the effectiveness of German U-boats and underwater mines was greatly reduced by the development of

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 Japanese surrender to the US

all these answers are correct

The Smith-Connally Act of 1943

all these answers are correct

Which of the following is true of casualties in WWII

all these answers are correct

In April 1945, American and British forces halted their advance on Germany at the Elbe River

at the announcement that President Roosevelt had died OR to wait for the Russian army to arrive

In 1943, to simplify tax collections, Congress enacted

automatic payroll deductions

During WWII, the US military

began to relax its practices of racial segregation

In February 1945, an allied bombing attack on Dresden, Germany

both killed approximately 135,000 people and resulted in mostly civilian casualties

The Battle of the Buldge

both saw the American army drove deep into Germany and was the last major battle on the western front

During WWII, the Fair Employment Practices Commission was created

by President Roosevelt to stop black protesters from marching on the capital

All of the following were Allied advances in intelligence-gathering in WWII EXCEPT the

creation of the Purple machine for coded communications

The US government acquired definite knowledge of the Holocaust

during the first years after the U.S. involvement

During WWII, the War Production Board

favored large over small contractors

In 1942-1943, the British and American war effort against the Nazi concentrated on

fighting in North Africa and southern Europe

During WWII, in the US, all of the following social indicators experienced a rise in their rate of occurrence EXCEPT

high school enrollment

Prior to ordering the use of an atomic bomb against Japan, President Harry Truman

issued an ultimatum to Japan to surrender or face utter devastation

The 1943 "zoot-suit riots" in Los Angeles

led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suits

The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942

marked the first important victory by the US against Japan

In WWII, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to

mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions

What factors led to a post war boom of material prosperity in the US?

mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions

During WWII, Allied bombers targeted

none of these answers are correct

During WWII, the US military services

quietly tolerated illicit heterosexual relationships

Regarding European Jewish refugees, between 1939 and 1945, the United States

refused to accept large numbers of refugees

During WWII, Germany held the technological edge over the Allies in

rocket-propelled bombs

Between 1939 and 1945, the federal budget of the US

rose over ten-fold

During WWII, the labor force of the US

saw 15 million people leave civilian labor for the armed forces

During WWII, American Indians

saw the war effort undermine efforts to revitalize tribal traditions

During WWII, American women who worked outside the home

tended to be older than women who worked in the past

The US dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945 after

the Japanese failed to provide a response to the first bomb

In 1943, the country that pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany was

the Soviet Union

All of the following statements regarding the interment of Japanese Americans in the US during WWII are true EXCEPT that

the US government has never admitted wrongdoing

A significant issue in the 1944 election was

the domestic economy

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

Most employed women during the war worked in

the service sector

In 1942, when the US interned Japanese Americans in "relocation centers"

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

During WWII, the Allied development of the Gee navigation system

used electronic pulses to plot course locations

During WWII, the National Defense Research Committee

was headed by a scientist who was a pioneer in the development of the computer

Over the course of WWII, inflation in the US

was much less serious a problem that it had been in WWI

The 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf

was the largest naval engagement in history

During WWII, organized labor in the US

won automatic union memberships for new defense-plant workers