Ch. 26- History

issued an ultimatum to Japan to surrender or face utter devastation

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

refused to accept large numbers of refugees

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

led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suit

The 1943 "zoot-suit riots" in Los Angeles

was the largest naval engagement in history

The 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf

True

The Allied invasion of Sicily led to the collapse of the Mussolini government

all answers are correct

The Battle of Midway in 1942

was the last major battle on the western front

The Battle of the Bulge

marked the first important victory by the United States against Japan

The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942

All answer choices are correct

The Japanese surrender to the United States

False

The Soviet Union favored the Allied African campaign as a way to divert German resources from the eastern front

True

The U.S. government consistently resisted calls to make an Allied effort to save Jews caught in the Holocaust.

False

The braceros program allowed Mexicans to enter the United States and become citizens if they agreed to work in war plants for the duration of the war

Iwo Jima

The costliest battle in the history of the United States Marines Corps was the Battle of

Alamogordo, New Mexico

The first atomic explosion in history took place in 1945 in

False

Working mothers during World War II usually relied on private child-care facilities

False

African Americans' strategy for social and economic improvement during World War II was to gain favor with the Roosevelt administration rather than make demands of it.

Albert Einstein was in charge of the development program

All of the following statements regarding the Allied development of an atomic bomb during World War II are true EXCEPT that

the landing was made across the narrowest part of the English Channel

All of the following statements regarding the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 are true EXCEPT that

True

By the end of 1942, Allied technology had caught up with that of Germany and Japan.

None of these answers is correct

During World War II, Allied bombers targeted

faced many shortages of consumer goods

During World War II, American shoppers

all answers are correct

During World War II, Chinese Americans

CCC and WPA

During World War II, Congress abolished the

worked as code-talkers and joined the military

During World War II, Native Americans

High school enrollment

During World War II, in the United States, all of the following social indicators experienced a rise in their rate of occurrence EXCEPT

won automatic union memberships for new defense-plant workers

During World War II, organized labor in the United States

by President Roosevelt after black protesters threatened a massive march on the capital

During World War II, the Fair Employment Practices Commission was created

George C. Marshall

During World War II, the United States Army chief of staff was

Italy

During World War II, the first Axis country to be defeated was

saw more than 16 million people leave civilian labor for the armed forces

During World War II, the labor force of the United States

West

During World War II, the regional impact of government spending was the greatest in the

Nazi Germany

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

admitted Mexican contract laborers into the United States for a limited time

In 1942, the United States and Mexico agreed to the braceros program, which

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

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

fighting in North Africa and southern Europe

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

the Soviet Union

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

to wait for the Russian army to arrive

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

Paris

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

Chester Nimitz

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

True

In June 1942, the United States gained control of the central Pacific with the Battle of Midway

Chester Nimitz

In World War II, one of the primary American commanders in the Pacific was

mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions

In World War II, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to

All these answers are correct

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

Democrats increased their control of the House

In the 1944 elections,

True

Native American languages were useful in American military communications.