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Harry Truman

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Ordered the use of the atomic bombs

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"code talkers"

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Navajos

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Office of War Information

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mobilized American public opinion

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Black internationalism

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opposed to colonialism

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Yalta Conference

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Big Three meeting

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Nye Committee

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blamed businesspeople for WWI involvement

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Smith v. Allwright

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civil rights case

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FDR's Four Freedoms include all of the following except

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freedom of enterprise

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The Four Freedoms

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were President Roosevelt's statement of the Allied War aims

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The Four Freedoms show toured the country to persuade Americans to

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buy war bonds

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The Good Neighbor policy was directed at

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Latin America

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During the 1930s The Good Neighbor policy

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was a foreign policy based on the recognition of the autonomy of Latin American countries

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Who is considered the founder of fascism

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Benito Mussolini

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After a bitter Civil War, Francisco Franco established in 1939 a fascist government in

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Spain

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France and Britain's policy toward Germany of giving concessions in hopes of avoiding War was called

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appeasement

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As fascism Rose in Europe and Asia during the 1930's, most Americans

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supported US neutrality

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In 1940, the "cash and carry" plan

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allowed Great Britain to purchase US Army's on a restricted basis

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In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt

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won an unprecedented third term as president

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The Lend-Lease Act

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authorized military aid to those fighting against Germany and Japan

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Freedom House was an organization that

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demanded American intervention in the European War

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December 7th 1941 is known as a date that will live in infamy referring to

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the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

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After the United States entered World War II,

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Americans experienced a series of military losses

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D-Day refers to the

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Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy

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The Holocaust

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was the mass extermination of millions of Jews and others in Nazi death camps

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Which area of the United States witnessed the greatest growth during the war?

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West Coast

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Organized labor assisted in the war effort by

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agreeing to a no-strike pledge

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During the war, Americans

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experience the rationing of scarce consumer goods such as gasoline

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For most women workers, World War II

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allow them to make temporary gains

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Henry Luce's the American Century

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hailed free economic Enterprise

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What does Henry Luce see the cure for America in his book The American Century?

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they both put forth a new conception of America's role in the world based in part on internationalism and on the idea that the American Experience should serve as a model for all other nations

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The national resources planning board

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urge the expansion of the welfare state

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The GI Bill of Rights

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included scholarships for education for veterans

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The economic Bill of Rights was

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not passed by Congress

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The program that began in 1942 that allowed experienced Mexican agricultural workers to cross the border to work under government labor contracts was called the

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Bracero Program

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Under the Bracero Program

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Mexicans were encouraged to emigrate but they were denied the right of citizenship

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The Zoot Suit Riots of 1943

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highlighted the limits of racial tolerance during World War II

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The 1943 Texas Caucasian race equal privileges resolution

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allowed Mexicans equal treatment in public accommodations while still segregating blacks

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Which group is shoot its own declaration of war against Axis powers

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the Iroquois

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Executive Order 9066

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authorized the internment of Japanese-Americans

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Which statement about the Japanese-American internment is false?

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Once their loyalty was proven, they were free to leave.

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In Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court:

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upheld the legality of Japanese internment

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During World War II, African-Americans

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witness the birth of the modern Civil Rights Movement

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The Fair Employment Practices Commission

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was the first Federal agency since reconstruction to Advocate equal opportunity for blacks

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Philip Randolph

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pressured FDR into issuing executive order 8802

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According to Gunnar Myrdal, America's dilemma was a conflict between

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American values and American racial policies

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The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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remains controversial in the United States and the world

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At Yalta, The Big Three met for a summit. It was here that they finally agreed

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that the Soviet Union would enter the Pacific War

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At the Yalta Conference in 1945

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wartime American Soviet cooperation was at its peak

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In 1944, Conference of Dumbarton Oaks established the

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United Nations

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World War II

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produced a radical redistribution of world power

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The Atlantic Charter

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endorse the freedoms from want and fear

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