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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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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 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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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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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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Which pair of aggressor nation and invaded nation is incorrect for the 1930's?

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Japan and Korea

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The bombing at Pearl Harbor

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Provoked the United States to declare war on Japan

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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 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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the Bulge

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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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The first American offensive operation in the Pacific occurred

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on Guadalcanal Island

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The Tripartite Pact

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united Italy, Germany, and Japan in a defensive alliance

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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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Throughout most of the 1930s, the United States was unwilling to commit itself to working with other countries to restore stability to the world. This attitude was reflected in its foreign policy of

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isolationism

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From 1936 to 1938, Great Britain and France responded to Germany's occupation of various countries in Europe by

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pursuing a policy of giving Adolf Hitler what he wanted

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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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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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World War II began when Britain and France declared war on Germany after its invasion of

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Poland

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In the late 1910s and early 1920s, Henry Cabot Lodge argued that the United States should

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use its power internationally to further its own interests

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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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The Sino-Japanese War foreshadowed

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the horror and atrocities of World War II

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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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As the Japanese continued their aggression against Asian countries in 1940 and 1941, President Roosevelt

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tried to apply economic pressure by cutting them off from American supplies

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The fascist who came to power first was

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Benito Mussolini of Italy

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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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Adolf Hitler's principles for Germany included all the following, except

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negotiating a reduction in reparations and paying them in full

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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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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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During World War II, the status of Chinese Americans in American society

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improved considerably

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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 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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According to revisionist historians such as Charles Beard, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was

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the result of a deliberate United States plan to maneuver the Japanese into firing the first shot

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In the early 1930s, a step toward World War II occurred in Asia when Japan adopted a territorially aggressive policy toward

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China

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According to the author of the textbook, the American fleet was caught by surprise when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because

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a combination of confusion and miscalculation caused the government to overlook indications that an attack was imminent

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When the Roosevelt administration decided that the United States would no longer directly intervene in the affairs of Latin American countries, the new approach became known as

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the Good Neighbor Policy

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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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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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The Kellogg-Briand Pact idealistically declared an end to

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war as an instrument of national policy

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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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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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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

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When Harry Truman assumed 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 the 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 communist after WWII, 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 the western Europe might fall under communist control

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The National Security Act of 1947 contained all of the following 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 Germany 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 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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The Korean War began when

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North Korean forces invaded South Korea

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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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The United States refused to support the British, French, and Israelis in the 1956 Suez invasion because

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It feared that the Arab nations would become allies of the Soviet Union

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When the Soviet Union shot down a U-2 aircraft over its country, the incident

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Gave Nikita. Khrushchev the pretext he needed to break off the Paris summit discussions concerning Berlin

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The root causes of the hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII

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Are still heavily debated and cannot be blamed on one single event

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Kennedy believed that the future struggle against communism would occur mainly in the

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Developing countries of the Third World

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Success for the 1961 American-aid invasion of Cuba depended on

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An anti-Castro uprising in Cuba

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The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when

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Kennedy accepted Khrushchev's offer to remove the missiles from Cuba in exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade the island

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Kennedy decided to remove Diem from the presidency of South Vietnam when

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Diem launched attacks on the country's Buddhists

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The American commitment in Vietnam increased substantially when

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President Johnson asked for and Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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Public opinion turned radically against the Vietnam War after the

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Viet Cong launched the 1968 Tet Offevsive

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Nixon's approach to U.S. policy in Vietnam finally resulted in a negotiated settlement (the Paris accords), which provided for

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The release of several hundred American prisoners of war

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During the two years following the American pullout of troops from South Vietnam, the North Vietnamese

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Occupied the South and established a united Vietnam under the control of Hanoii

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Nixon's efforts to establish a new relationship with China were a result of his belief that Communist China

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Must be strengthened to counteract the power of the Soviet Union

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American actions in the settlement of the Yom Kipper War of 1973 resulted in

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An oil embargo against the United States by the Arab nations

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President Carter's diplomatic efforts in relieving the tensions between Egypt and Israeli resulted in

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A formal peace treaty between Egypt and Israel

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The Iran-contra scandal seriously damaged the Reagan administration's reputation when it revealed that the United States

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Used the money from the sale of arms to Iran to aid the contras in Nicaragua

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During the Gulf War the United States and its allies fought the military forces of

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Iraq

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Before Sept.11,2001, most Americans thought that terrorism

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Was a problem that mainly plagued other nations

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In his first State of the Union address, President Bush identified the "axis of evil" as including all of the following except

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The Communist party in Russia

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