Chapter 30 Quiz – Flashcards
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U.S. military halted Japanese advances at the Battles of
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Coral Sea and Midway
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The Battle of Midway demonstrated the decisive role of
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Aircraft carriers
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The Revenue Act of 1942
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Greatly increased the number of income taxpayers
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Wartime rationing included
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Sugar, coffee, and gasoline
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During the World War II, women could do all of the following except:
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Serve in active combat
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During World War II, the fastest rate of urban growth occurred in the
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Farwest
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Germany took priority in the fighting because
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All of the above
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At the conference in Casablanca, Churchill and Roosevelt decided to
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Assault Sicily and Italy
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Germany lost the Battle of the Atlantic because
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The Allies had broken the Germans secret code
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One reason Operation Overload succeeded was
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Eisenhower surprised the Germans by attacking at Normandy
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Strategic bombing of Germany in 1943
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Involved British and American planes flying as far as Berlin
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The largest naval engagement in history occurred at
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Leyte Gulf
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The decisions made at the Yalta Conference did not include agreement that
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Both the Soviet Union and the United States would reduce their armaments by half after the war ended
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U.S. officials were slow to aid Jewish refugees because
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All of the above
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In World War II, the greatest number of casualties were suffered by
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The Soviet Union
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World War II caused the deaths of 50 million people worldwide
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True
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Expenditures by the federal government during World War II exceeded the total of all previous federal spending
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True
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The basic economic problem during World War II was finding workers to fill the jobs available
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True
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The government paid for three fourths of the war's cost through taxes
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False
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During World War II, Congress readily renewed and extended such New Deal programs as the National Youth Administration
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False
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African American pilots were trained in a segregated facility at Tuskegee in Alabama
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True
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The Supreme Courts decision in Smith v. Allwright approved the internment of Japanese Americans
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False
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Zoot-suit riots involved black servicemen in Europe
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False
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Native Americans were segregated in the military
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False
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African Americans were used as code breakers in the military
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False
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Italian Americans and German Americans were interned in camps in Arizona for the duration of the war
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False
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The invasion of Sicily came only six weeks after Normandy invasion
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False
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The tactics of "leapfrogging" was used to pursue Hitler in the last days of World War II
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False
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V-E day was celebrated before the fall of Japan, in May 1945
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True
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The first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese Islands of Okinawa
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False
