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With the coming of peace, women employed in war-related industries came under increasing pressure to leave their jobs and resume their role as homemakers.

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T

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During World War II, the federal government spent twice the amount of money it had spent in all of the previous 150 years of American history.

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T

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Unions became firmly established in many sectors of the economy during World War II.

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T

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During World War II, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was probably more racially integrated than any labor organization since the Knights of Labor in the 1880s.

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T

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The "double-V" campaign stood for a double victory, one in the European Theatre and one in the Pacific Theatre.

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Automotive manufacturing giant Henry Ford opposed United States involvement in World War II.

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T

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During World War II, the NAACP and American Jewish Congress cooperated closely in advocating laws to ban discrimination in employment and housing.

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T

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During World War II, membership numbers for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) grew to approximately one-half million.

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T

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During World War II, 15 million American men served in the military, and 350,000 women served in auxiliary military units.

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T

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Toward the end of World War II, evidence existed that Japanese officials would accept surrender if Emperor Hirohito could remain on his throne.

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T

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Senator Gerald P. Nye's 1934-1935 hearings demonstrated that bankers had suffered terrible economic setbacks during World War I.

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F

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Japan invades Manchuria

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1931

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U. S. recognizes Soviet Union

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1933

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Congress passes Neutrality Acts

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1935-1939

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Sino-Japanese War Begins

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1937

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Munich agreement

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1938

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Germany invades Poland

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1939

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Draft established

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1940

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Four Freedoms speech ; Henry Luce's The American Century ; Lend-Lease Act Executive Order 8802 ; Atlantic charter ; Pearl Harbor Attacked

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1941

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Executive Order 9066 ; Battle of Midway Island ; Congress of Racial Equality ; CORE formed

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1942

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"Zoot" suit riots ; Detroit race riot ; Congress lifts Chinese Exclusion Act

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1943

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Smith v. Allwright (clearly he ain't Allwright) ; D-Day ; GI Bill of Rights ; Bretton Woods conference ; Korematsu v United States ; Battle of the Bulge

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1944

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Yalta conference ; Roosevelt dies ; Harry Truman becomes president ; V-E Day (May) Atomic bombs dropped on Japan V-J Day (September)

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Where is Pearl Harbor Located?

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Hawaii

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Which of the following was not a major thrust of the Four Freedoms promoted by FDR?

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The only thing Americans have to fear is fear itself.

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The mass extinction of "undesirable" peoples—Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and, above all, Jews—that Hitler undertook in 1941, and that we now call the Holocaust, he called

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the "final solution."

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Executive Order 9066 led to Japanese-American internment during World War II. Define "internment."

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the act of confining someone during wartime

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Which of the following was not a significant difference between the conservative and liberal visions for postwar America?

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Conservatives regarded capitalism as essential to America's future; liberals regarded socialism as essential to America's future.

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Which of the following was not a feature of American involvement in World War II?

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FDR agreed to a wartime alliance with the Soviet Union only after Stalin promised to rid his country of communism after the war.

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Which of the following leaders demanded that the Atlantic Charter, which would apply to non-European colonies and nations?

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Winston Churchill

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Which was not one of the Four Freedoms, President Roosevelt's shorthand for American purposes in World War II?

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Freedom of Liberty

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A key source of American reluctance to confront the rise of Nazism and fascism in Europe during the 1930s was

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haunting memories of World War I. widespread indifference to the persecution of European Jews. the ethnic allegiances of many Americans of Italian, German, or Irish descent. all of the above.

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The founder of Italian fascism who sent troops to invade and conquer Ethiopia was

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Benito Mussolini

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The self-confident woman, portrayed as fully capable of doing a man's job in posters and on magazine covers during World War II, was called

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"Rosie the Riveter."

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June 6, 1944, the day on which nearly 200,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers landed in northwestern France, in Normandy, is known as

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D-Day.

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Which was not a goal or action of Adolf Hitler's?

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He seized control of the Philippines and Malaysia.

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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

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German annexation of Austria; Hitler-Stalin non-aggression pact; Battle of Stalingrad; "Big Three" conference at Yalta

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According to Eric Foner, which of the following newspapers pointed out the discrepancy between American ideals of Democracy and civil rights reality of racial discrimination in the United States during World War II?

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The Crisis

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt "repudiated the right to intervene militarily in the internal affairs of Latin American countries," writes Eric Foner. Define "repudiated."

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to cast off or disown; to reject with disapproval

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's foreign policy with regard to Latin American countries was called

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the Good Neighbor Policy.

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What province of northern China did Japan invade in 1931?

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Manchuria

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The desire for both victory at home against segregation, and victory overseas against the Germans and the Japanese, came to be called this by African-Americans during World War II

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the "double-V."

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With the spread of what on college campuses, tens of thousands of students took part in a "strike for peace" in 1935?

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pacifism

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A major success for Germany and its allies during World War II was

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the "blitzkrieg" campaign.

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On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Where is Pearl Harbor?

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Hawaii

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The branch of the federal government created in 1942 to mobilize public opinion, and that sought to make the conflict "a 'people's war' for freedom" was called

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the Office of War Information.

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Who of the following were known as the "Big Three?"

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin

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Which of the following gatherings did not play a major role in the planning of the postwar international order?

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the Munich conference

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Which of the following was not an effect of wartime mobilization on American society?

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Americans of German descent were herded into internment camps, on the basis that their loyalties could not be trusted

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During World War II, the Axis powers were

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Germany, Italy, and Japan.

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The congressional legislation that extended an array of benefits, including unemployment pay, educational scholarships, low-cost mortgage loans, pensions, and job training to millions of returning veterans beginning in 1944, was called

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the Serviceman's Readjustment Act, or G.I. Bill of Rights.

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The Roosevelt administration paid little attention to foreign affairs before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Answer Selected Answer: False

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Question 2 3.04 out of 3.04 points Most of the bloodshed that occurred in Europe during World War II took place on the eastern front. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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Question 3 3.04 out of 3.04 points Following America's entry into the war, the federal government assumed vast powers to oversee the national economy. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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Question 4 3.04 out of 3.04 points War mobilization lifted the industrial Northeast out of the Depression, but left the economies of the South and the West virtually untouched. Answer Selected Answer: False

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f

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Question 5 3.04 out of 3.04 points With the coming of peace, women employed in war-related industries came under increasing pressure to leave their jobs and resume their role as homemakers. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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Question 6 3.04 out of 3.04 points President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 ordered the internment of all Japanese-Americans who refused to sign an oath of loyalty to the United States. Answer Selected Answer: False

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f

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Question 7 3.04 out of 3.04 points War mobilization greatly strengthened the size and stature of the American labor movement. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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Question 8 3.04 out of 3.04 points As the war drew to a close, tensions emerged among the Allied powers over Stalin's reluctance to allow self-rule in eastern Europe, and Churchill's reluctance to allow self-rule for Great Britain's colonies. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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Question 9 3.04 out of 3.04 points By the late 1930s, Americans were nearly universally in favor of intervening militarily in Germany to stop the horrors being perpetrated against Jews and others by Adolf Hitler and his followers. Answer Selected Answer: False

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f

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Question 10 3.04 out of 3.04 points The Ford Motor Company employed slave labor provided by the German government. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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Question 11 3.04 out of 3.04 points Eighty percent of Japan's oil came from the United States prior to 1941. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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Question 12 3.04 out of 3.04 points Senator Gerald P. Nye's 1934-1935 hearings demonstrated that bankers had suffered terrible economic setbacks during World War I. Answer Selected Answer: False

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f

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Question 13 3.04 out of 3.04 points The America First Committee sought to ensure that America would be one of the first nations to enter the conflict against Adolf Hitler. Answer Selected Answer: False

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f

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Question 14 3.04 out of 3.04 points The term "blitzkrieg" means "lightning war." Answer Selected Answer: True

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Question 15 3.04 out of 3.04 points Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler were bitter enemies who could agree on nothing at the beginning of World War II. Answer Selected Answer: False

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Question 16 3.04 out of 3.04 points In World War I the French had been successful at keeping the invading German army out of Paris; in World War II, the French also succeeded in keeping the Nazis from occupying Paris. Answer Selected Answer: False

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Question 17 3.04 out of 3.04 points At Bataan in the Philippines, U.S. and Filipino forces captured 78,000 Japanese soldiers in the largest surrender in Japanese military history. Answer Selected Answer: False

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Question 18 3.04 out of 3.04 points In May 1942, the United States Navy thwarted a Japanese attack against Australia in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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Question 19 3.04 out of 3.04 points The United States inflicted severe losses on the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Midway Island. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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Question 20 3.04 out of 3.04 points As late as December 1944, more American military personnel were deployed in the Pacific theater of war than against Germany. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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Question 21 3.04 out of 3.04 points During Germany's effort to seize Stalingrad beginning in August 1942, 800,000 Germans and 1.2 million Russians died in the fighting. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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Question 22 3.04 out of 3.04 points Germany suffered far higher casualties among its soldiers on the Western Front than it did on the Russian Front. Answer Selected Answer: False

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Question 23 3.04 out of 3.04 points At least 20 million Russians died during World War II, both soldiers and civilians. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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Question 24 3.04 out of 3.04 points By 1944, the United States produced a plane every five minutes, and a ship every day. Answer Selected Answer: True

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t

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