Ch 26 Pt 1 Review
During World War II, the effectiveness of German U-boats and underwater mines war greatly reduced by the development of
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During World War II, American shoppers
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During World War II, Chinese Americans
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The Battle of Midway in 1942
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After 1943, the United States advanced on Japan primarily with the aid of forces from
Australia and New Zealand.
In World War II, one of the primary American commanders in the Pacific was
Chester Nimitz
During World War II, the United States Army chief of staff was
George Marshall
In 1939, the first steps toward the creation of an atomic bomb were taken by
Nazi Germany
In 1943, the country that pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany was
Soviet Union
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 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 stop black protesters from marching on the capital
All of the following were Allied advances in intelligence-gathering in World War II EXCEPT the
creation of the Purple machine for coded communications.
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.
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 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 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 heterosexual relationships.
During World War II, Germany held the technological edge over the Allies in
rocket-propelled bombs
During World War II, American Indians
saw the war effort undermine efforts to revitalize tribal traditions.
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 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
Most employed women during the war worked in
the service sector
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.
During World War II, the Allied development of the Gee navigation system
used electronic pulses to plot course location
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