Ch 24 Popquiz

The federal government enacted which of the following policies during World War II to encourage women workers in the war effort? Select one:

A. Government child-care programs

What did President Roosevelt call "a date that will live in infamy"? Select one:

A. Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

Which of the following pairs is properly matched? Select one:

A. Lend-Lease—allowed the distribution of arms and equipment to Britain

The turning point of World War II in Europe came as a result of the Select one:

A. Soviets' halt of the German advance at Stalingrad in the winter of 1942-1943.

Which of the following factors contributed to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany? Select one:

A. World War I reparation payments

When Japanese troops occupied the northern part of French Indochina in 1940, Select one:

A. the United States restricted trade with Japan, including fuel and scrap metal vital to Japan's war effort.

Korematsu v. United States legitimized Select one:

A. the forced internment of Japanese Americans into relocation camps.

Who was Gordon Hirabayashi? Select one:

B. A pacifist who was convicted for resisting the Japanese internment policy

Which of the following states experienced the largest share of wartime migration in the 1940s? Select one:

B. California

In June 1943, thirty-four people died during a major race riot in Select one:

B. Detroit.

In a famous 1941 speech, Franklin Roosevelt excluded which of the following from his definition of the "four essential freedoms"? Select one:

B. Freedom from discrimination

Which of these statements describes the America First Committee? Select one:

B. Its intent was to keep the nation out of war.

Which of the following statements describes rationing during World War II? Select one:

B. Most Americans complied with rationing.

Which of the following was the United States' initial response to world problems in the 1930s? Select one:

B. Neutrality

By the late 1930s, fascism had not yet spread to Select one:

B. Russia.

Americans associated with which of the following groups, which advocated U.S. intervention in Europe? Select one:

B. The Popular Front

What were the terms of the "cost-plus" contracts offered by the U.S. government to corporations during World War II? Select one:

B. The corporations were guaranteed a profit from the sale of war materials to the U.S. government.

Which of the following statements describes the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II? Select one:

B. The internment policy was not applied to the many Japanese Americans who lived in Hawaii.

Which of the following describes discrimination in the armed services during World War II? Select one:

B. The military segregated African Americans and assigned them menial duties.

Why did the United States participate in World War II? Select one:

B. To protect European democracy and preserve American international power

The cash-and-carry provision of the 1937 Neutrality Act stated that Select one:

B. belligerents could buy nonmilitary goods from the United States under certain conditions.

The GI Bill of Rights provided Select one:

B. education, medical care, pensions, and mortgage loans to veterans.

After the Japanese invaded China in 1937, President Roosevelt Select one:

B. urged peace-loving nations to "quarantine" Japan and other aggressors.

What prevented the United States from relaxing its immigration standards in order to grant asylum to a larger number of Jewish refugees in the late 1930s and early 1940s? Select one:

C. Anti-Semitic attitudes

The principles of freedom of the seas, national self-determination, and collective security were reiterated in the Select one:

C. Atlantic Charter.

Which of the following nations was not overrun by Germany in June 1940? Select one:

C. Britain

What was the outcome of the United Mine Workers' strike, which was led by John L. Lewis in 1943? Select one:

C. Congress passed legislation prohibiting strikes during the war and forbidding political contributions by unions.

During World War II, the Big Three consisted of Select one:

C. England, the Soviet Union, and the United States.

Why did the Democratic Party nominate Harry S Truman as Roosevelt's vice presidential running mate in 1944? Select one:

C. Many party leaders found Vice President Wallace too liberal.

Which of the following statements accurately describes women's roles in the American workforce during World War II? Select one:

C. Men earned higher wages than women for comparable work.

World War II officially began in Europe after Germany invaded Select one:

C. Poland.

Which of the following describes the federal income tax during World War II? Select one:

C. The number of Americans paying federal income increased tenfold.

What was the principal reason that Harry Truman and his American advisors decided to use the atomic bomb against Japan in the summer of 1945? Select one:

C. They demanded unconditional surrender and were not willing to invade Japan.

Which of the following combinations is correctly paired? Select one:

C. War Production Board—oversaw the conversion of industry to military manufacturing

Which of the following facilitated the emergence of gay and lesbian communities in cities like New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Buffalo during the World War II years? Select one:

C. Wartime migration

Franklin Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 Select one:

C. allowed for the forced internment of Japanese Americans.

In 1934, the Nye Committee's report concluded that Select one:

C. war profiteers had maneuvered the nation into World War I for financial gain.

The government's action during World War II undermined which of the following Progressive-era reforms? Select one:

D. Antitrust prosecution

Which of the following caused increased racial tensions and an outbreak of race riots in more than a hundred cities in 1943? Select one:

D. Competition for housing and jobs between whites and black migrants

Which of the following men led the American military command in the Pacific theater during World War II? Select one:

D. Douglas MacArthur and Chester W. Nimitz

During the 1930s, Adolf Hitler's goal was Select one:

D. European domination and world power.

What form of government did the war-making nations of the late 1930s have in common? Select one:

D. Fascism

Why was Churchill's strategy of invading Europe through its "soft underbelly" in Sicily and Italy a costly mistake? Select one:

D. German troops took control of Italy after Mussolini's fall and outmatched the Allies.

Which of the following was characteristic of fascist governments in the 1930s and 1940s, especially Nazi Germany? Select one:

D. Nationalism

Who was Henry J. Kaiser? Select one:

D. The "miracle man" who revolutionized the production of naval vessels during the war

Which of the following was the most decisive American factor in determining the outcome of World War II? Select one:

D. The immense production of war material and other needed supplies

The Neutrality Act of 1935 and its 1936 and 1937 amendments Select one:

D. instituted a cash-and-carry policy for belligerent nations' purchases from the United States.

Instead of immediately opening a second front in France in 1942-1943, Churchill successfully insisted that the Allies Select one:

D. invade North Africa and later Sicily and the Italian mainland.

Franklin Roosevelt responded to A. Philip Randolph's plan for a March on Washington by Select one:

D. issuing Executive Order 8802.

From 1941 to 1943, Stalin was most interested in securing a guarantee that Britain and the United States would Select one:

D. open a second front in France to force Germany to withdraw troops from Russia.