Ch 26 Pt 1 Review

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

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During World War II, American shoppers

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During World War II, Chinese Americans

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The Battle of Midway in 1942

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

Australia and New Zealand.

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

Chester Nimitz

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

George Marshall

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

Nazi Germany

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

Soviet Union

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

In 1943, to simplify tax collections, Congress enacted

automatic payroll deductions

During World War II, the U.S. military

began to relax its practices of racial segregation

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

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

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

creation of the Purple machine for coded communications.

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.

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 1943 "zoot-suit riots" in Los Angeles

led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suits

The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942

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

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

mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions

During World War II, the United States military services

quietly tolerated illicit heterosexual relationships.

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

rocket-propelled bombs

During World War II, American Indians

saw the war effort undermine efforts to revitalize tribal traditions.

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 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

Most employed women during the war worked in

the service sector

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.

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

used electronic pulses to plot course location

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