US History 1302 Ch 22

In what aspect of American foreign policy did Franklin D. Roosevelt break from Herbert Hoover's precedent?

a. He exchanged ambassadors with the Soviet Union.

Who painted the Four Freedoms paintings that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post?

a. Norman Rockwell

Which of the following is true of the Yalta conference in 1945?

a. Stalin agreed to allow free and unfettered elections in postwar Poland.

How did the Allied campaign in Italy lay the groundwork for the invasion of France on D-Day?

a. The defeat of Mussolini's regime forced Hitler to redirect valuable German troops to occupy Italy.

The "Grand Alliance" joined together

a. the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union.

The Bretton Woods conference created the framework for what?

a. the postwar capitalist economic system

In the United States during World War II,

a. unemployment declined and income taxes increased.

What was the "final solution"?

b. Adolf Hitler's plan to mass-exterminate "undesirable" peoples.

Which statement about the Pearl Harbor attack is true?

b. It was a surprise attack by the Japanese.

How did "Patriotic Assimilation" differ from "Americanization"?

b. Patriotic assimilation described the American way of life, where people of different backgrounds could live together in freedom and unite as a people.

Which former enemy of Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with Germany?

b. Soviet Union

What did the members of the new United Nations Security Council all have in common?

b. They were all part of the allies that won World War II.

Responding to Japan and Germany's aggression and expansionist hopes, the federal government

b. did not interfere with enterprises that were doing business with them.

The National Resources Planning Board's slogan was

b. economic security and full employment.

The Manhattan Project

b. enabled the development of an atomic weapon based on the theories of German scientists involving energy and matter.

In Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court

b. upheld the legality of Japanese internment.

Fascism

b. was a movement similar to Hitler's Nazism.

FDR's "Economic Bill of Rights"

b. would have enabled the government to provide education, housing, and medical care.

Men like Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Father Coughlin were members of the

c. America First committee, an isolationist group.

On what grounds did the Austrian-born economist Friedrich A. Hayek reject the New Deal state?

c. He argued that even well-intended government plans threatened individual liberties.

Why did Executive Order 9066 not apply to persons of Japanese descent living in Hawaii?

c. Since nearly 40 percent of the population was of Japanese descent, the evacuation order would have been impractical.

How did World War II change the role of corporations in American life?

c. Technological innovation and high productivity in the war effort restored the reputations of corporations from their Depression lows.

What did Henry Luce and Henry Wallace have in common?

c. They both put forth a new conception of America's role in the world based in part on internationalism and on the idea that the American experience should serve as a model for all other nations.

What happened to most female war workers after the war?

c. They lost their jobs, especially those in better-paying ones.

How did the Office of War Information (OWI) react to the issue of race?

c. This group celebrated the diversity in America.

In his book The American Century, Luce argues that

d. Americans should prepare to be the world leaders.

What was the reaction to Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan?

d. Few people criticized Truman's decision.

What led England and France to declare war on Germany, marking the start of World War II?

d. Germany invaded Poland, a country Britain and France had promised to protect.

How did the role of the national government change during the war?

d. It grew and created several federal agencies to regulate the war effort.

How did the League of United Latin American Citizens regard Mexican-Americans?

d. Mexican-Americans were white and deserved the same rights that other whites had.

How did World War II affect the West Coast of the United States?

d. Millions of Americans moved to California for jobs and military service.

Which of the following is true regarding women in the workforce during World War II?

d. Women in 1944 made up more than one-third of the civilian labor force.

In the case of Korematsu v. United States (1944), Robert Jackson wrote a dissent arguing that

d. guilt is personal and not inheritable.

What was the single largest battle ever fought by the U.S. Army?

d. the Battle of the Bulge

What was the goal of the policy of appeasement?

d. to avoid another conflict like World War I

Which of the following statements best describes Japan's overseas actions in the 1930s?

e. Japan invaded China hoping to expand militarily and economically.

Where did the turning point of World War II in Europe occur?

e. Stalingrad

What did Roosevelt mean by the phrase "Freedom from Want"?

e. That, once the war finished, he would continue to protect the standard of living of the common man.

Growth in the South and West during World War II was sparked by

e. military industrial growth.

Anti-Semitism in the United States during World War II resulted in

e. only 21,000 Jewish refugees being allowed in the United States.

The GI Bill of Rights

e. rewarded all war veterans.

Organized labor assisted in the war effort by

a. not going on strikes.

What accounted for the tension between Great Britain and the United States at the Yalta conference?

c. Churchill and Roosevelt disagreed over the future status of Britain's overseas colonies.

The Lend-Lease Act

c. authorized military aid as long as countries promised to return it after the war.

What made it so difficult for the United States to reject the demands of Joseph Stalin for establishing a Soviet sphere in eastern Europe?

a. Roosevelt realized the sacrifices the Soviets had made in their victory on the eastern front.

In 1940, the "cash and carry" plan

a. allowed Great Britain to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.

During World War II, Native Americans

a. served in the military and worked in war production.

Who did the Bretton Woods conference position as the world's financial leader after World War II?

a. the United States

Women working in defense industries during the war

b. made up one-third of the West Coast workers in aircraft manufacturing and shipbuilding.

The Pearl Harbor bombing was the first attack on U.S. territory by a foreign power since which conflict?

c. War of 1812

Before World War II started, how could Franklin Roosevelt's actions toward Germany best be described?

c. concerned but cautious

Who did publisher Henry Luce credit with the provision of "the abundant life" in his blueprint for postwar prosperity, The American Century?

c. free enterprise

What turned the tide of the Pacific naval war in favor of the Allies?

c. the destruction of Japanese aircraft carriers at Midway Island

"D-Day" refers to

c. the largest sea-land military operation in history.

The Office of War Information

c. used all its resources to show the American people the war was ideological.