Chapter 22 WWII – Flashcards
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What was not one of the Four Freedoms expressed by FDR?
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Freedom of Enterprise
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Who is considered the founder of fascism?
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Benito Mussolini
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Many Americans were convinced by ______ that a policy of isolationism was necessary
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Senator Gerald Nye's report
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Men like Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Father Coughlin were members of the ____________.
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American the first committee, an isolationist group
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During the war in Europe, Germany's advance into the Soviet Union was reversed at _________.
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Stalingrad
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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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Women working in defense industries during the war________
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were told by advertisers that they were fighting for freedom
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Which statement about the Japanese-American internment is false?
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Once the FBI did background checks on individuals they were free to leave the camps and return home
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What was the Double V Campaign?
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An attempt to gain victory in Germany and an end to segregation in America
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Approximately ____ persons died immediately after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
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70,000
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At Yalta the Big Three met for a summit. It was here that it was finally agreed ________
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that the Soviet union would enter the Pacific War
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The Atlantic Charter ________
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endorsed the freedoms from want and fear
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Some _________ million Americans moved during the war.
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30
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The Good Neighbor Policy was directed at _____
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Latin America
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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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The policy followed by Britain and France toward Germany in giving concessions in hopes of avoiding war was called _______
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appeasement
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The major second European front was opened in _______
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June 1944
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What was the "final solution"?
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Adolf Hitler's plan to mass-exterminate "undesirable" peoples
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The GI Bill of Rights provided for veterans _____
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low-cost mortgage loans, job training, unemployment pay, scholarships for college education
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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 __________
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bracero program
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As fascism rose in Europe and Asia during the 1930's, most Americans ___________
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supported U.S. neutrality
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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 Germany and Japan
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December 7, 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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"D-Day" refers to ____________-
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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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During the war, Americans _____________
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experienced rationing of scarce consumer goods such as gasoline, found fewer consumer goods available by 1944, still suffered from high unemployment, were told that the end of war might bring a return of the Great Depression
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"Rosie the Riveter" ___________
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refers to Norman Rockwell's image of "womanpower" during the war
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The "zoot suit" riots of 1943 __________
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highlighted the limits of racial tolerance during WWII
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Government propaganda and war films portrayed the Japanese as _____________
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bestial and subhuman
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Executive Order 9066 _______
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authorized the internment of Japanese-Americans
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During WWII, African-Americans ___________
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still suffered from discrimination, left the south in large numbers seeking employment in war industries, served in segregated units in the armed forces, and recieved limited access to the GI bill of rights benefits
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The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ___________
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brought the war to an end and caused no controversy
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At the Yalta conference in 1945, ___________
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wartime America-Soviet cooperation was at its peak
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The 1944 conference at Dumbarton Oaks established the ________
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United Nations
