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During World War II, the majority of Americans experienced
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profound changes in the social and political structure of their country
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor led to the U.S. entry into World War II,
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Japan inflicted major defeats on U.S. forces in the next few months
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During World War II, the first important Allied victory in the Pacific occurred
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at the Battle of Coral Sea
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During 1942, the United States launched its first major effort against the Germans when it
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worked with the British in launching a major offensive in North Africa
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The Allied invasion of France was postponed until 1944 for all the following reasons except
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losses to the Japanese required diverting troops to the Pacific
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During 1942 and 1943, a major Allied defeat occurred
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at Kasserine Pass in Tunisia
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When the Americans and the British inflicted major defeats on the Italian Army during 1943, the Italians responded by
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removing Mussolini from power and switching to the Allied side
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During the Nazi program of exterminating the Jews in Europe, American officials
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were more concerned with the larger goal of winning the war than with the fate of the Jews
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During World War II, changes to American domestic life included
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a rapid industrialization of some of the western states
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During World War II, the U.S. government used all the following means to control unions except
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allowing the president to draft workers into government service
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To keep prices from rising too much during World War II, the U.S. government
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By the beginning of 1944, the production of American industry for military needs was
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evenly divided between large corporations and small businesses
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Allied advantages during World War II included
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One area in which the Allies had superior technological quality was
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in the success of creating effective code-breaking technology
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During American involvement in World War II, African-American leaders tried to end discrimination by
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all of the answers below
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For African-Americans, World War II led to a significant decrease in
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the number willing to accept a status of second-class citizen
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World War II changed Native Americans (Indians) by
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During World War II, Mexican Americans experienced
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a small number of violent clashes between them and Anglo-American residents of the West
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The increase in the number of Mexican Americans employed in the United States during the early 1940s resulted from
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wartime labor shortages
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Compared with women who worked outside the home before 1939, the new working women of World War II were more likely to be
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engaged in heavy industrial work
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During World War II, women who worked outside the home concentrated in
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governmental jobs
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In the United States, World War II brought a number of important social consequences, including a decrease in the number of
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teenagers enrolled in high school
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Because of angry emotions stirred by World War II, Americans treated harshly immigrants to the United States from the enemy country of
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Japan
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The U.S. government interned many Japanese Americans in "relocation camps" because
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many American military leaders unjustly regarded them as a threat to the security of the West Coast
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In the case Korematsu v. U.S., the Supreme Court ruled that
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the internment of Japanese Americans was constitutional
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During World War II, the status of Chinese Americans in American society
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improved considerably
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During the final years of World War II, the New Deal programs of the Roosevelt administration were
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partially eliminated
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During the election of 1944, all of the following events occurred except
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the Republicans suggested that the president had done a poor job of conducting the war
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During 1944 and 1945, in an attempt to end the war in western Europe, Allied forces
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During the final days of World War II, German troops mounted their last serious resistance in western Europe at the Battle of
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Kasserine Pass
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During World War II, the Allies split Europe into two theaters of operation, with
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the Americans and the British fighting in the western half and the Soviets fighting in the eastern half
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During 1943 and 1944, the war on the Asian mainland saw all of the following developments except
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Allied forces drove the Japanese out of the outlying Chinese province of Manchuria
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In 1944, the Japanese lost their capacity to continue a serious naval war at the Battle of
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Leyte Gulf
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The United States began development of the atomic bomb because its leaders
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were afraid the Nazis would develop one first
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When the United States used the atomic bomb against Japan at the end of World War II, the president
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apparently acted to end the war quickly without having to invade Japan
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During World War II, American forces
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Among the root causes of the hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II was
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The historians who analyzed the Cold War offered all of the following interpretations of its beginning except
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the Cold War started because the ideologies of limited government and unlimited government were fundamentally incompatible
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Over the years, some historians have argued that the Cold War was the result of
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Despite disagreement among historians concerning the origins of the Cold War, many of them have come to accept the post-revisionist interpretation that
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both countries helped to create an atmosphere of tension and suspicion that touched off the Cold War
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As the Allies entered the last year of World War II, all of the principles outlined by the Atlantic Charter were strongly supported by
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Roosevelt
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Despite a wartime alliance, postwar Soviet-American relations deteriorated for all of the following reasons except
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Roosevelt's belief that the Soviet government was inflexible and that Stalin was unreasonable
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The Atlantic Charter outlined a vision of the postwar world that would
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set up an international organization serving as the arbiter of disputes
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At the meeting of the Allies at Casablanca in January 1943, Roosevelt and Churchill
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announced that they would accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers
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Allied wartime diplomacy illustrated that
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the Big Three could not settle their basic disagreements
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Roosevelt and Churchill had a major disagreement with Stalin at the Teheran Conference regarding
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the future status of Poland
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In deciding the issue of Poland at the Teheran Conference in November 1943, the Big Three decided to
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leave the issues concerning Poland unresolved
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At Yalta, the Big Three agreed on all of the following issues except
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creation of a democratic government in Poland with equal representation of procommunist and pro-western Poles
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The final agreement at Yalta concerning the future of Germany was that Germany would be
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divided into four zones based on the position of troops at the end of the war
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When Harry Truman assumed the Presidency after Franklin Roosevelt's death, he believed that
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Stalin and the Soviet Union were fundamentally untrustworthy
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In dealing with the Soviets during his first few months in office, President Truman
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chastised the Soviets for violating the Yalta agreements
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During the struggle in China between nationalists and communists after World War II, the United States
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continued to support Chiang Kaishek with money and weapons even when it became clear his cause was lost
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Truman's policy of "containment" called for the United States to
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support free people who were resisting communist expansion
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Above all other reasons, policy makers supported the Marshall Plan because they
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feared that the shaky pro-American governments in western Europe might fall under communist control
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The Marshall Plan adopted policies toward communist countries that
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offered assistance to the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites, but they refused
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The Economic Cooperation Administration was also known as the
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Marshall Plan
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The Marshall Plan accomplished all of the following except
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caused a few successful pro-western coups
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The National Security Act of 1947 contained all of the following provisions except
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creating the Atomic Energy Commission to oversee and speed atomic research
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In 1948, Stalin initiated the Berlin Blockade in response to
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the merging of the American, British, and French zones of Germany to create a new West German Republic
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The history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization involved all of the following events except
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the United States Senate did not ratify the charter until a decade after the organization was formed
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The National Security Council report resulted from all of the following events except
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the invasion of South Korea by communist North Korean forces
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The National Security Council report represented
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a strengthening of America's containment policy
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Post-World War II America exhibited all of the following economic characteristics except
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a depression after the effects of wartime spending wore off
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The strikes by the United Mine Workers and the nation's railroads in 1946 were settled when
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Truman either ordered or threatened government control
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After the end of World War II and the return of demobilized forces to the workforce, women
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One major purpose of the Taft-Hartley Act was to
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limit the power of labor unions
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The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 was supported by
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conservative Republicans in Congress
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In the election of 1948, Southern conservatives bolted the Democratic party because
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they disapproved of Truman's proposed civil rights bill
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In the election of 1948, Truman employed all of the following political tactics except
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keeping a low profile once he gained a large lead in the polls
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In the election of 1948, Truman
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won the presidency, and the Democrats also won both houses of Congress
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In the late 1940s, Truman managed to push through Congress all of the following Fair Deal legislation except
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a national health insurance plan to provide medical care to the poor
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On the issue of racial discrimination, Truman managed to
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begin dismantling segregation within the armed forces
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The film style of film noir emphasized
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the alienation of individuals in an impersonal world
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The Korean War began when
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North Korean forces invaded South Korea
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President Truman relieved Douglas MacArthur from command because MacArthur
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publicly indicated his dissatisfaction with Truman's policy on Korea
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The Korean War resulted in all of the following developments except
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an increased confidence in America's position as a world power dedicated to stopping the spread of communism
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In the early 1950s, the campaign against domestic communism in the United States resulted from all of the following developments except
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the death of Mao Zedong
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The conviction of Alger Hiss resulted in all of the following developments except
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repealing the statute of limitations for espionage so that Hiss could be tried
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, accused of transferring atomic secrets to the Soviets, were
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convicted, sentenced to death, and executed, despite two years of appeals and public protests
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The nation's most prominent leader of the crusade against domestic subversion was
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Joseph McCarthy
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In his crusade against domestic subversion, Joseph McCarthy used all of the following means except
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producing conclusive evidence that several federal employees had communist ties
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The Republican candidate, Dwight Eisenhower, won the presidential election of 1952 because much of the public
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liked the geniality and statesmanlike quality of Eisenhower
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