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was opposed by President Franklin Roosevelt, authorized the president to seize a war factory where workers had gone on strike, and passed as a result of actions taken by the United Mine Workers

The Smith-Connally Act of 1943

the Battle of Iwo Jima

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

was headed by a scientist who was a pioneer in the development of the computer

During World War II, the National Defense Research Committee

began to relax in practices of racial segregation

During World War II, the United States military

Italy

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

West

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

the Soviet Union announced it would not enter into war against Japan

In August 1945, the primary reason the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan was because

marked the first important victory by the United Space against Japan

The Battle of Coral Sea in 1942

was the last major battle on the western front

The Battle of the Bulge

during the first years after U.S. involvement

The United States government acquired definite knowledge of the Holocaust

Australia and New Zealand

After 1943, the United States advanced on Japan primarily with the aid of forces from

saw fourteen million combatants die and more than one million Americans killed or wounded, and were relatively light in the United States compared to those of other countries

Casualties in World War II

were drafted in a higher proportion than any other national group, received a favorable image in U.S. propaganda, and saw the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts

During World War II, Chinese Americans

CCC and WPA

During World War II, Congress abolished the

rocket-propelled bombs

During World War II, Germany held the technological edge over the Allies in

creation of the Enigma machine for coded communications

During World War II, all of the following were Allied advances in intelligence-gathering EXCEPT the

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 autonomic union memberships for new defense plant workers

During World War II, organized labor in the United States

Democrats increased their control of the House

IN the 1944 elections,

Nazi Germany

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

the Americans successfully regroup from a defeat at Kasserine Pass

In 1942, the North American campaign against the Nazi saw

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,"

the Soviet Union

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

automatic payroll deductions

In 1943, to simplify tax collections, Congress enacted

Alamogordo, New Mexico

In 1945, the first automatic explosion in history took place in

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

mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions

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

refused to accept large numbers of refugees

In regards to European Jewish refugees, between 1939 and 1945, the United States

was a new form of jazz

In the 1940s, swing music