APUSH chapter 26
In August 1944, the Allies liberated from German occupation the city of
Paris
The Japanese surrender to the United States
all of these answers are correct
Which of the following is true of casualties in World War II?
all of these answers are correct
The U.S. government acquired definite knowledge of the Holocaust
as early as 1942
In 1943, to simplify tax collections, Congress enacted
automatic payroll deductions
During World War II, the U.S. military
began to relax its practices of racial segregation
During World War II, the Fair Employment Practices Commission was created
by President Roosevelt to prevent black protestors from marching on the capitol
All of the following were Allied advances in intelligence-gathering in World War II EXCEPT the
capturing of an Enigma machiene
In 1942-1943, the British and American war effort against the Nazis concentrated on
freeing France from German control.
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
Which of the following is true of organized American labor during World War II?
no major unions went on strike
During World War II, Allied bombers targeted
none of these answers are correct
All of the following statements regarding the Allied development of an atomic bomb during World War II are true EXCEPT that
plutonium was a practical fuel for the bomb
During World War II, American women who worked outside the home
tended to be older than women who had worked in the past
All of the following statements regarding the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II are true EXCEPT that
the American government has never admitted any wrongdoing
The United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945 after
the Japanese failed to provide a response to the first bomb
In 1942, when the United States interned Japanese Americans in "relocation centers,"
there was no evidence that 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
During World War II, the regional impact of government spending was the greatest in the
west
During World War II, organized labor in the United States
won automatic union membership for new defense-plant workers
The first atomic explosion in history took place in 1945 in
Alamogordo, New Mexico
In February 1945, an Allied bombing attack on Dresden, Germany
All of these answers are correct
The Battle of Midway in 1942
All these answers are correct.
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
During World War II, the United States Army chief of staff was
George Marshall.
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
In 1939, the first steps toward the creation of an atomic bomb were taken by
Nazi Germany
In 1943, in a meeting in Casablanca, the Allies decided they would next invade
Sicily
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
During World War II, Chinese Americans
all of 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 of these answers are correct
In mid-1945, evidence of Japan's desperation to continue the war included
all of these answers are correct
The Smith-Connally Act of 1943
all of these are right
The Battle of the Bulge
ended serious German resistance in the West
During World War II, the War Production Board
favored large over small contractors
Prior to ordering the use of an atomic bomb against Japan, President Harry Truman
issued an ultimatum to Japan to either surrender or face utter devastation
The 1943 "zoot-suit riots" in Los Angeles
led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suits
The Allied decisions that delayed an invasion of France
left the Soviet Union deeply embittered
The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942
marked the first important victory by the United States against Japan
In World War II, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to
mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions
During World War II, the United States military services
quietly tolerated illicit homosexual relationships
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 over 25 million people leave civilian labor for the armed forces
During World War II, American Indians
saw the war effort undermine it's efforts to revitalize tribal traditions
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 Allied invasion of France in June 1944 are true EXCEPT that
the landing occurred over the narrowest part of the English Channel
Most employed women during the war worked in
the service sector
During World War II, the Allied development of the Gee navigation system
uses electronic pulses to plot course locations
Over the course of World War II, inflation in the United States
was a much less serious problem than it had been in World War I
During World War II, the National Defense Research Committee
was headed by a scientist that was a pioneer in the development of the computer
The 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf
was the largest naval engagement in history