chapter 24
During the 1930s, Adolf Hitler's goal was
European domination and world power.
Who was Gordon Hirabayashi?
A pacifist who was convicted for resisting the Japanese internment policy
What prevented the United States from relaxing its immigration standards in order to grant asylum to a larger number of Jewish refugees in the late 1930s and early 1940s?
Anti-Semitic attitudes
The government's action during World War II undermined which of the following Progressive-era reforms?
Antitrust prosecution
The principles of freedom of the seas, national self-determination, and collective security were reiterated in the
Atlantic Charter.
Which of the following nations was not overrun by Germany in June 1940?
Britain
Which of the following states experienced the largest share of wartime migration in the 1940s?
California
Which of the following caused increased racial tensions and an outbreak of race riots in more than a hundred cities in 1943?
Competition for housing and jobs between whites and black migrants
What was the outcome of the United Mine Workers' strike, which was led by John L. Lewis in 1943?
Congress passed legislation prohibiting strikes during the war and forbidding political contributions by unions.
In June 1943, thirty-four people died during a major race riot in
Detroit.
Which of the following men led the American military command in the Pacific theater during World War II?
Douglas MacArthur and Chester W. Nimitz
During World War II, the Big Three consisted of
England, the Soviet Union, and the United States.
What form of government did the war-making nations of the late 1930s have in common?
Fascism
In a famous 1941 speech, Franklin Roosevelt excluded which of the following from his definition of the "four essential freedoms"?
Freedom from discrimination
Why was Churchill's strategy of invading Europe through its "soft underbelly" in Sicily and Italy a costly mistake?
German troops took control of Italy after Mussolini's fall and outmatched the Allies.
The federal government enacted which of the following policies during World War II to encourage women workers in the war effort?
Government child-care programs
Which of these statements describes the America First Committee?
Its intent was to keep the nation out of war.
What did President Roosevelt call "a date that will live in infamy"?
Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
Which of the following pairs is properly matched?
Lend-Lease—allowed the distribution of arms and equipment to Britain
Why did the Democratic Party nominate Harry S Truman as Roosevelt's vice presidential running mate in 1944?
Many party leaders found Vice President Wallace too liberal.
Which of the following statements accurately describes women's roles in the American workforce during World War II?
Men earned higher wages than women for comparable work.
Which of the following statements describes rationing during World War II?
Most Americans complied with rationing.
Which of the following was characteristic of fascist governments in the 1930s and 1940s, especially Nazi Germany?
Nationalism
World War II officially began in Europe after Germany invaded
Poland.
By the late 1930s, fascism had not yet spread to
Russia.
The turning point of World War II in Europe came as a result of the
Soviets' halt of the German advance at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-1943.
Who was Henry J. Kaiser?
The "miracle man" who revolutionized the production of naval vessels during the war
Americans associated with which of the following groups, which advocated U.S. intervention in Europe?
The Popular Front
Which of the following was the most decisive American factor in determining the outcome of World War II?
The contribution of women workers in America's factories
Which of the following statements describes the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II?
The internment policy was not applied to the many Japanese Americans who lived in Hawaii.
Which of the following describes discrimination in the armed services during World War II?
The military segregated African Americans and assigned them menial duties.
Which of the following describes the federal income tax during World War II?
The number of Americans paying federal income increased tenfold.
What was the principal reason that Harry Truman and his American advisors decided to use the atomic bomb against Japan in the summer of 1945?
They demanded unconditional surrender and were not willing to invade Japan.
Why did the United States participate in World War II?
To protect European democracy and preserve American intern
Which of the following combinations is correctly paired?
War Production Board—oversaw the conversion of industry to military manufacturing
Which of the following facilitated the emergence of gay and lesbian communities in cities like New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Buffalo during the World War II years?
Wartime migration
Which of the following factors contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany?
World War I reparation payments
Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066
allowed for the forced internment of Japanese Americans.
The GI Bill of Rights provided
education, medical care, pensions, and mortgage loans to veterans.
Instead of immediately opening a second front in France in 1942-1943, Churchill successfully insisted that the Allies
invade North Africa and later Sicily and the Italian mainland.
Franklin Roosevelt responded to A. Philip Randolph's plan for a March on Washington by
issuing Executive Order 8802.
From 1941 to 1943, Stalin was most interested in securing a guarantee that Britain and the United States would
open a second front in France to force Germany to withdraw troops from Russia.
When Japanese troops occupied the northern part of French Indochina in 1940,
the United States restricted trade with Japan, including fuel and scrap metal vital to Japan's war effort.
Korematsu v. United States legitimized
the forced internment of Japanese Americans into relocation camps.
After the Japanese invaded China in 1937, President Roosevelt
urged peace-loving nations to "quarantine" Japan and other aggressors.
