HIS 1053 Chapter 26 Review
Which of the following is true of organized American labor during WWII?
"Wildcat" strikes were the most common
The first atomic explosion in history took place in 1945 in
Alamogordo, New Mexico
All of the following statements regarding the Allied developments of an atomic bomb during WWII are true EXCEPT that
Albert Einstein was in charge of the development program
In 1943, in the North African campaign against the Nazis, the
Americans successfully regrouped from a defeat at Kasserine Pass
After 1943, the US advanced on Japan primarily with the aid of forces
Australia and New Zealand
During WWII, Congress abolished the
CCC and WPA
In February 1944, American naval forces won a series of victories in the Marshall Islands, under command of
Chester Nimitz
In WWII, one of the primary American commanders in the Pacific was
Chester Nimitz
In the 1944 elections
Democrats increased their control of the House
During WWII, the US Army chief of staff was
George Marshall
During WWII, the first axis country to be defeated was
Italy
The costliest battle in the history of the US Marines Corps was the battle of
Iwo Jima
In 1939, the first steps toward the creation of an atomic bomb were taken by
Nazi Germany
In August 1944, the Allies liberated from German occupation the city of
Paris
In 1943, in a meeting in Casablanca, the Allies decided they would next invade
Sicily
During WWII, the regional impact of government spending was the greatest in the
West
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 mid-1945, evidence of Japan's desperation to continue the war included
all of these answers are correct
During WWII, American shoppers
all these answers are correct
During WWII, Chinese Americans
all these answers are correct
During WWII, the effectiveness of German U-boats and underwater mines was greatly reduced by the development of
all these answers are correct
The Allied decisions that delayed an invasion of France
all these answers are correct
The Battle of Midway in 1942
all these answers are correct
The Japanese surrender to the US
all these answers are correct
The Smith-Connally Act of 1943
all these answers are correct
Which of the following is true of casualties in WWII
all these answers are correct
In April 1945, American and British forces halted their advance on Germany at the Elbe River
at the announcement that President Roosevelt had died OR to wait for the Russian army to arrive
In 1943, to simplify tax collections, Congress enacted
automatic payroll deductions
During WWII, the US military
began to relax its practices of racial segregation
In February 1945, an allied bombing attack on Dresden, Germany
both killed approximately 135,000 people and resulted in mostly civilian casualties
The Battle of the Buldge
both saw the American army drove deep into Germany and was the last major battle on the western front
During WWII, 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 WWII EXCEPT the
creation of the Purple machine for coded communications
The US government acquired definite knowledge of the Holocaust
during the first years after the U.S. involvement
During WWII, the War Production Board
favored large over small contractors
In 1942-1943, the British and American war effort against the Nazi concentrated on
fighting in North Africa and southern Europe
During WWII, in the US, all of the following social indicators experienced a rise in their rate of occurrence EXCEPT
high school enrollment
Prior to ordering the use of an atomic bomb against Japan, President Harry Truman
issued an ultimatum to Japan to surrender or face utter devastation
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 US against Japan
In WWII, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to
mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions
What factors led to a post war boom of material prosperity in the US?
mount two offensive campaigns to attack the Japanese from two directions
During WWII, Allied bombers targeted
none of these answers are correct
During WWII, the US military services
quietly tolerated illicit heterosexual relationships
Regarding European Jewish refugees, between 1939 and 1945, the United States
refused to accept large numbers of refugees
During WWII, Germany held the technological edge over the Allies in
rocket-propelled bombs
Between 1939 and 1945, the federal budget of the US
rose over ten-fold
During WWII, the labor force of the US
saw 15 million people leave civilian labor for the armed forces
During WWII, American Indians
saw the war effort undermine efforts to revitalize tribal traditions
During WWII, American women who worked outside the home
tended to be older than women who worked in the past
The US dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945 after
the Japanese failed to provide a response to the first bomb
In 1943, the country that pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany was
the Soviet Union
All of the following statements regarding the interment of Japanese Americans in the US during WWII are true EXCEPT that
the US government has never admitted wrongdoing
A significant issue in the 1944 election was
the domestic economy
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
Most employed women during the war worked in
the service sector
In 1942, when the US interned Japanese Americans in "relocation centers"
there was no evidence that the Japanese Americans were a domestic security risk
During WWII, the Allied development of the Gee navigation system
used electronic pulses to plot course locations
During WWII, the National Defense Research Committee
was headed by a scientist who was a pioneer in the development of the computer
Over the course of WWII, inflation in the US
was much less serious a problem that it had been in WWI
The 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf
was the largest naval engagement in history
During WWII, organized labor in the US
won automatic union memberships for new defense-plant workers