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What was the final solution?
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Adolf Hitler's plan to mass exterminate undesirable people
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In the United states during World War 2 the United States did what?
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Unemployment declined, production soared, and income taxes increased.
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The Zoot Suit riots of 1943 highlighted what?
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Highlighted the limits of racial tolerance
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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 what?
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Bracero program
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Women working in defense industries during the war made up of what?
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Made up one third of the West coast workers in aircraft manufacturing and ship building
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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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The Four Freedoms was what?
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President Roosevelt's statement of the Allied war aims
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Define the Holocaust.
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The mass extermination of millions of Jews and other in Nazi death camps
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As fascism rose in Europe and Asia during the 1930's, most Americans supported what? Film
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U. S neutrality
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The Office of War Information used what?
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Used radio, film, and press to give the war and ideological meaning
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The GI Bill of Rights included what?
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Scholarships for education for veterans
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In 1940, the cash and carry plan allowed what?
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Allowed Great Britain to purchase U. S arms on a restricted basis
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The Four Freedoms show toured the country to persuade Americans to what?
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Buy war bonds
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FDR's Four Freedoms include all of the following except what?
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Freedom of enterprise
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Organized labor assisted in the way effort by doing what?
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Agreeing to a no strike pledge
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The double V campaign was what?
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The effort to end discrimination against blacks while fighting fascism
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For most women workers world War 2 allowed what?
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For them to make temporary gains
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D-day refers to what?
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Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy
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Black internationalism during World War 2 connected what?
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Connected the plight of black Americans to that of people of color worldwide
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Rosey the Riveter refers to what?
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Refers to Norman Rockwell's image of a female industrial laborer
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Government propaganda and war films portrayed the Japanese as what?
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Bestial and subhuman
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Executive Order 9066 is what?
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Authorized the internment of Japanese American
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Under the Bracero program Mexicans were encouraged to do what?
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Mexicans were encouraged to immigrate but they were denied the right of citizenship
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During the war, Americans experienced what?
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Experienced the rationing of scarce consumer goods such as gasoline
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December 7, 1941 is known as a date that will live in infamy refers to what?
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The Japanese attack on pearl Harbor
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The Lend-Lease act authorized what?
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Authorized military aid to those fighting against Germany and Japan
