DE US History - Ch. 26.1-26.2

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

A. Soviet Union

In 1943, to simplify tax collections, Congress enacted

A. automatic payroll deductions

During WWII, all of the following were advances in intelligence-gathering EXCEPT the

A. creation of the Enigma machine for coded communications

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

A. mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions.

In regards to European Jewish refugees, between 1939 and 1945, the U.S.

A. refused to accept large numbers of refugees

During WWII, the labor force of the U.S.

A. saw fifteen million people leave civilian labor for the armed forces

During WWII, American women who worked outside the home

A. tended to be older than women who worked in the past

All of the following statements regarding the internment of Japanese Americans in the U.S. during WWII are true EXCEPT

A. the U.S. government had never admitted wrongdoing

In the 1940s, swing music

A. was a new form of jazz

Throughout WWII, in organized American Labor

B. "wildcat" strikes were quite common

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

B. George Marshall.

During WWII, the Fair Employment Practices Commission was created

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

During WWII, in the U.S., all of the following social indicators experienced a rise in their rate of occurrence EXCEPT

B. high school enrollment

In 1943, the "zoot-suit riots" in Los Angeles

B. led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suits

During WWII, Germany held the technological edge over the Allies in

B. rocket-propelled bombs

In 1942, the North African campaign against the Nazis saw

B. the Americans successfully regroup from a defeat at Kasserine Pass

Over the course of WWII, inflation in the U.S.

B. was much less serious a problem than during WWI

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

C. Chester Nimitz.

In the 1944 elections,

C. Democrats increased their control of the House

In 1943, at the Casablanca Conference, the Allies decided they would next invade

C. Sicily

In 1942, the United States and Mexico agreed to the braceros program which

C. admitted Mexican contract laborers into the U.S. for a limited time

During WWII, the U.S. military

C. began to relax its practices of racial segregation

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

C. during the first years after the U.S. involvement

In 1942-1943, the British and American war effort against the Nazis concentrated on

C. fighting in North Africa

During WWII, the United States military services

C. tolerated illicit heterosexual relationships

During WWII, the Allied development of the Gee navigation system

C. used electronic pulses to plot course location

During WWII, the National Defense Research Committee

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

During WWII, Chinese Americans

D. All the answers are correct

During WWII, the effectiveness of German U-boats and underwater mines was ended by the development of

D. All the answers are correct

The Allied decisions that delayed an invasion of France

D. All the answers are correct

The Smith-Connally Act of 1943

D. All the answers are correct

The Battle of Midway in 1942

D. All the answers are correct.

During WWII, Congress abolished the

D. CCC and WPA

During WWII, American shoppers

D. all the answers are correct

During WWII, the War Production Board

D. favored large over small contractors

During WWII, organized labor in the U.S.

D. won automatic union membership for new defense plant workers

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

E. Australia and New Zealand.

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

E. Italy

During WWII, the regional impact of government spending was the greatest in the

E. West

The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942

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

During WWII, Allied bombers targeted

E. none of the answers are correct

Between 1939 and 1945, the federal budget of the U.S.

E. rose ten-fold

During WWII, American Indians

E. saw the war effort undermine efforts to revitalize tribal traditions

A significant issue in the 1944 election was

E. the domestic money

In 1942, the U.S. interned Japanese Americans in "relocation centers,"

E. there was no evidence that the Japanese Americans were a domestic security risk


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