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.