AmHistory Ch. 35

The U.S.-British demand for unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan was:

A sign of the Western Allies' eagerness to reassure the Soviets in the absence of the Second Front.

The fundamental American strategic decision of World War II was to:

Attack Germany first, while using just enough strength to hold off Japan.

The 1942 battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines marked the beginning of:

Brutal tropical warfare in which atrocities were committed on both sides.

Wartime inflation and shortages of crucial goods were kept partly in check by:

Government price controls and rationing.

Besides African Americans, another traditionally rural group, which used service in the armed forces as a springboard to postwar urban life was:

Indians.

The essential American strategy in the Pacific called for:

Island hopping by capturing only the most strategic Japanese bases and bypassing the rest.

The most difficult and brutal European fighting for American forces through most of 1943 occurred in:

Italy.

The major exception to the relatively good American civil liberties record during World War II was the harsh treatment of:

Japanese Americans.

The American conquest of Guam and other islands in the Marianas in 1944 was especially important because it:

Made possible round-the-clock bombing of Japan from island bases.

The Fair Employment Practices Commission was designed to:

Prevent discrimination against blacks in wartime industries.

The Bracero Program, created by the federal government during World War II, was aimed to:

Relieve the agricultural labor shortage by bringing in temporary workers from Mexico.

Hitler's last-ditch effort to stop the British and American advance in the west occurred at the Battle of:

The Bulge.

The wartime migration of rural southern African Americans to northern and western urban factories was dramatically accelerated after the war by the intervention of:

The mechanical cotton picker.

Compared to British and Soviet women during and after World War II, American women:

Were less likely to work for wages in the wartime economy.