APUSH chapter 26/27

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

Paris

In the last months of 1949, events in the Soviet Union and China included

Russia's successful test of an atomic weapon.

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

The Soviet Union

A significant issue in the 1944 election was

The domestic economy

In 1949, President Harry Truman succeeded in getting Congress to pass

aid for public housing

In 1943, to simplify tax collections, Congress enacted

automatic payroll deductions

Between the Yalta Conference and his death, President Franklin Roosevelt

became increasingly concerned, though not without hope, that Stalin was not going to fulfill conference agreements.

During World War II, the U.S. military

began to relax its practices of racial segregation

The United States was motivated to develop the Marshall Plan in 1947 due to

both a humanitarian concern for the European people, and a desire to create strong European markets for American goods.

In designing the structure of the new United Nations, planners called for

each nation on the Security Council to have veto power over the others.

In the 1948 presidential election,

early polls had seemed to indicate that Harry Truman would lose.

The Battle of the Bulge

ended serious German resistance in the west.

In early 1945 at the Yalta Conference,

it was agreed the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War

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

mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions

President Harry Truman's actions after the 1946 election included

proposing a major civil rights bill

In 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command because MacArthur

publicly criticized President Truman's policy in Korea

In 1945, when the United States Senate considered the proposed United Nations, it

quickly ratified the agreement by a large majority

During World War II, the United States military services

quietly tolerated illicit heterosexual relationships.

During the Korean War, the Truman administration faced major strikes in the industries of

rail and steel

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 Korea are true EXCEPT that

the United States left Korea in 1946

The 1950 National Security Council report known as NSC-68 stated

the United States must resist communism anywhere it developed in the world

In 1947, the first target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was

the movie industry

Most employed women during the war worked in

the service sector

During World War II, the Allied development of the Gee navigation system

used electronic pulses to plot course location

Following World War II, the great majority of working American women

wanted to keep working

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

west

During World War II, Chinese Americans

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During World War II, the effectiveness of German U-boats and underwater mines was greatly reduced by the development of

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In 1947, the Truman Doctrine

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In 1945, President Harry Truman conceded to communist authority in

Poland

In 1943, in a meeting in Casablanca, the Allies decided they would next invade

Sicily

In 1945, Joseph Stalin's vision of a postwar world in which great powers would control strategic areas of interest was largely shared by

Winston Churchill

In early 1943 at a meeting in Casablanca,

Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt agreed the Axis powers must surrender unconditionally

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

President Harry Truman initially decided to "get tough" with the Soviet Union

after his first few days in office

In 1948, President Harry Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by

airlifting supplies to West Berlin

All the following statements regarding the "zones of occupation" of Germany in 1945 are true EXCEPT that

all of Berlin was to be placed under Soviet control

The U.S. government acquired definite knowledge of the Holocaust

as early as 1942.

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

by President Roosevelt to stop black protesters from marching on the capital

The Truman administration responded in 1950 to the onset of fighting in Korea by

calling on the United Nations to intervene

The Soviet Union's 1948 blockade of West Berlin was primarily a response to the

creation of a unified West Germany.

All of the following were Allied advances in intelligence-gathering in World War II EXCEPT the

creation of the Purple machine for coded communications.

The initial response by the American public to the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur was

criticism with President Truman

In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all.

During World War II, American shoppers

faced many shortages of consumer goods.

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.

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944

gave economic and education subsidies to veterans.

In 1945, when Harry Truman became president, he

had almost no familiarity with foreign affairs.

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 Supreme Court case of Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) dealt a blow to

housing discrimination

A 1948 public opinion poll revealed that a majority of Americans believed atomic power would

in the long run, do more good than harm

The 1943 "zoot-suit riots" in Los Angeles

led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suits

By 1945, the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek had

little popular support

The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942

marked the first important victory by the United States against Japan.

The immediate cause of the Korean War, in 1950, was the

military invasion by North Korea into South Korea

In 1949, the Truman administration made progress in civil rights by

ordering an end to discrimination in the hiring of government employees

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

permitted the "union shop."

The American invasion at Inchon during the Korean War

prompted President Truman to try and push communists out of North Korea

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 fifteen million people leave civilian labor for the armed forces

During World War II, American Indians

saw the war effort undermine efforts to revitalize tribal traditions

In the years immediately following World War II, the United States policy toward Asia led

the Truman administration encourage the rapid economic growth of Japan

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

Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was

the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.

President Harry Truman's Fair Deal called for

the creation of national health insurance

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

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

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

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

to wait for the Russian army to arrive.

In 1948, the Americans for Democratic Action

tried to draft Dwight Eisenhower for president

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

U.S. aid through the Marshall Plan

was offered to the Soviet Union.

During the mid-1940s, the American economy

was plagued by serious inflation

The government of Syngman Rhee in Korea after World War II

was pro-Western

The 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf

was the largest naval engagement in history

During World War II, organized labor in the United States

won automatic union memberships for new defense plant workers

Which of the following is true of organized American labor during World War II?

"Wildcat" strikes were the most common.

The National Security Act of 1947

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At the conclusion of the Yalta Conference in 1945, basic disagreements remained on

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In February 1945, an Allied bombing attack on Dresden, Germany

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The Allied decisions that delayed an invasion of France

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The Battle of Midway in 1942

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The Smith-Connally Act of 1943

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As a result of the Korean War, the

American public believed there was something wrong with the United States

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 House

At the Tehran Conference in late 1943,

Franklin Roosevelt promised an Anglo-American second front within six months

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

George Marshall

All of the following statements regarding the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers are true EXCEPT that

Hiss was convicted of espionage

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

During World War II, Allied bombers targeted

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