The fundamental strategic decision of World War II made by President Roosevelt and the British at the very beginning |
to concentrate first on the war in Europe and to place the Pacific war against Japan on the back burner. |
The employment of more than six million women in American industry during World War II led to |
the establishment of day-care centers by the government. |
Once at war, America’s first great challenge was to |
Retool it’s industry for all-out war production |
When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, |
a majority of Americans had no clear idea of what the war was about. |
While most American workers were strongly committed to the war effort, wartime production was disrupted by strikes led by the |
United Mine Workers |
Which one of the following is LEAST related to the other three? |
Smith-Conally Act |
The main reason the majority, or half of women war workers left the labor force at the end of World War II was |
Family obligations |
The minority group most adversely affected by Washington’s wartime policies was |
Japanese Americans |
During World War II, the United States government commissioned the production of synthetic _________________ in order to offset the loss of access to prewar supplies in East Asia. |
Rubber |
Match each of the wartime agencies below with its correct function:
A. War Production 1. assigned priorities with respect to the use of raw materials and transportation facilities. |
A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 |
The general American attitude toward World War II was |
less idealistic and ideological and more practical than the outlook in World War I. |
During World War II |
labor unions substantially increased their membership. |
African Americans did all of the following during World War II EXCEPT |
Fight in integrated combat units |
In the period from 1885 to 1924, Japanese immigrants to the United States were |
a select group who was better educated than mot European immigrants. |
Overall, most ethnic groups in the United States during World War II |
We’re further assimilated into American society |
Japanese Americans were placed in concentration camps during World War II |
as a result of anti-Japanese prejudice and fear. |
Most of the money raised to finance World War II came through |
Borrowing |
Hitler’s advances in the European theater of war crested in late 1942 at the Battle of _______________, after which his fortunes gradually declined. |
Stalingrad |
The conquest of _________________ in 1944 was especially critical, because from there Americans could conduct round-trip bombing raids on the Japanese home islands. |
Guam |
The Allies postponed opening a secong front in Europe until 1944 because |
of British reluctance and lack of adequate resources. |
The national debt increased most during |
World War II |
The first naval battle in history in which all the fighting was done by carrier-based aircraft was the Battle of |
The Coral Sea |
During World War II, most Americans economically experienced |
Prosperity and doubling a of personal income |
Until Spring 1943, perhaps Hitler’s greatest opportunities of defeating Britain and winning the war was |
the German U-boats would destroy Allied shipping. |
By the end of World War II, the heart of the United States’ African American community had shifted to |
Northern cities |
The tide of Japanese conquest in the Pacific was turned following the Battle of |
Midway |
Roosevelt’s and Churchill’s insistance of the absolute and "unconditional surrender" of Germany |
eventually complicated the problems of postwar reconstruction. |
The northward migration of African Americans accelerated after World War II because |
mechanical cotton pickers came into use. |
During World War II, American Indians |
moved off reservations in large numbers. |
The Japanese made a crucial mistake in 1942 in their attempt to control much of the Pacific when they |
overextended themselves instead of digging in and consolidating their gains. |
In waging war against Japan, the United States relied mainly on a strategy of |
"island hopping" across the South pacific while bypassing Japanese strongholds. |
As a result of the Battle of Leyte Gulf |
Japan was finished as a naval power |
Arrange these wartime conferences in chronological order: (A) Potsdam, (B) Casablanca, (C) Teheran. |
B, C, A |
Who died on April 30, 1945? |
Adolf Hitler |
Who died on April 12, 1945? |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
In a sense, Franklin Roosevelt was the "forgotten man" at the Democratic Convention in 1944 because |
so much attention was focused on who would gain the vice presidency. |
Where was the final Japanese surrender conducted on September 2, 1945? |
On the USS Missouri |
After the Italian surrender in August 1943, |
the German army poured into Italy and stalled the Allied advance. |
The Potsdam conference |
issued an ultimatum to Japan to surrender or be destroyed. |
At the wartime Teheran Conference, |
plans were made for the opening of a second front in Europe. |
The cross-channel invasion of Normandy to open a second front in Europe was commanded by General |
Dwight Eisenhower |
The spending of enormous sums on the original atomic bomb project was spurred by the belief that |
the Germans might acquire such a weapon first. |
Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) V-J Day, (B) V-E Day, (C) D Day, (D) Invasion of Italy. |
D, C, B, A |
The real impact of the Italian front on World War II may have been that it |
delayed the D-Day invasion and allowed the Soviet Union to advance further into Eastern Europe. |
Franklin Roosevelt won the election in 1944 primarily because |
The war was going well |
Which of the following was NOT among the qualities of the American participation in World War II? |
a higher percentage of military casualties than any other Allied nation |
The major consequence of the Allied conquest of Sicily in August 1943 was |
the overthrow of Mussolini and Italy’s unconditional surrender. |
The "unconditional surrender" policy toward Japan was finally modified by |
agreeing to let the Japanese keep Emperor Hirohito on the throne. |
What two cities in Japan were atomic bombs dropped on by the United States? |
Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
Hitler’s last ditch attempt to achieve a victory against the Americans and British came in |
The Battle of the Bulge |
President Roosevelt’s promise to the Soviets to open a second front in western Europe by the end of 1942 |
Was utterly impossible to keep |
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