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Louisiana State University - HIST 2055 Chapter 30 The Second World War TRUE/FALSE 1)By the end of World War II, over 6 million women had entered the workforce
Louisiana State University - HIST 2055
Chapter 30 The Second World War
TRUE/FALSE
1)By the end of World War II, over 6 million women had entered the workforce.
- Black American soldiers generally served in desegregated units during World War II.
- The bracero program mobilized Native Americans to support the war effort.
- Large numbers of Americans of German, Italian, and Japanese descent were incarcerated during World War II.
- The United States and Britain adopted a Pacific first strategy to World War II in response to Japanese attacks in the Pacific.
- At Casablanca, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed that the terms for ending the war must include the “un- conditional surrender” of all enemies.
- The strategic bombing of Europe in 1943 and 1944 completely and utterly devastated German industri- al production.
- D-day refers to the cross-Channel Allied amphibious invasion of Nazi-occupied France.
- The Battle of Leyte Gulf underscored Japan’s ability to continue its defense of the Philippines.
- The agreements at Yalta Conference included Stalin’s pledge to enter the war against Japan three months after Germany’s defeat.
- In May 1945, Germany surrendered in exchange for assurances Hitler would not be tried as a war criminal.
- The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- Despite the insistence on “unconditional surrender,” the United States accepted a conditional surrender when it agreed to let the emperor keep his throne.
- Despite the length and duration of World War II, total civilian and military deaths miraculously re- mained less than 1 million.
- During World War II, presidential authority expanded significantly.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
- From late 1941 into early 1942, World War II in the Pacific experienced:
- a string of American victories that put Japan on the defensive
- a succession of Japanese victories that saw numerous Allied outposts fall
- the Japanese on the Philippines surrender to General Douglas MacArthur
- the Japanese invasion and capture of Australia
- China finally surrendering to Japan
- All of the following statements about the Battle of Midway are true EXCEPT that:
- it was the turning point of the war in the Pacific that favored the United States
- the Japanese lost four aircraft carriers
- the battle began with another Japanese surprise attack on American forces
- the Japanese navy was forced into retreat less than six months after Pearl Harbor
- the battle demonstrated that aircraft carriers were the decisive elements of modern naval warfare
- In early 1942, the biggest challenge the United States faced in the Atlantic was:
- German submarine warfare
- German aircraft carrier attacks
- German blitzkrieg
- German espionage
- German-American disloyalty
- By late 1942, the United States effectively countered German advantages in the Atlantic with which strategic response?
- aerial bombardment
- cross-Channel invasion
- dropping the atomic bomb
- espionage
- convoys and escorts
- Following the declaration of war:
- a surge of volunteerism allowed the repeal of the Selective Service Act to end the draft
- all men and women between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were drafted
- women between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were drafted, while men were exempt from the draft due to an excess of volunteers
- men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were drafted
- the draft was enacted for the first time in American history
- Which agency was created to direct industrial conversion to war production?
- the Commerce Department
- the War Production Board
- the Treasury Department
- the Office of Scientific Research and Development
- the Office of War Information
- The U.S. government financed the war with all of the following methods EXCEPT:
- raising taxes
- selling war bonds
- borrowing from financial institutions
- expanding the number of taxpayers
- cutting federal jobs
- A significant economic problem during the war was:
- finding enough workers for the essential wartime industries
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- overcoming high unemployment that lingered from the Depression
- dealing with deflationary pressures that killed consumer demand
- women refusing to work in wartime industries
- raising low wages
- The Office of Price Administration:
- was designed to combat the serious wartime deflation
- was designed to raise consumer prices
- lacked any authority to set consumer prices or ration any items
- set price ceilings on and rationed highly demanded items such as tires, sugar, and gasoline
- set price ceilings and directed the rationing of all goods and items for sale in the wartime economy
- During the war, domestic politics were marked by:
- the “liberalization” of southern Democrats
- expansion of New Deal programs
- a growing conservatism
- the decline of Republican power in Washington
- the total dominance of Democrats over the politics of the war
- Which statement best describes the impact of the war on the Far West?
- The Far West’s population and economy shrunk as wartime mobilization shifted industry east.
- The war had no significant impact on the Far West.
- The wartime demand for food saw the Far West become increasingly dominated by agri- culture.
- The Far West experienced the fastest rate of urban growth in the country.
- Western cities ceased expanding as the male population was sent off to fight in the war.
- The mobilization of women in the labor force during World War II:
- was opposed by many men who feared changes in women’s traditional roles
- enjoyed the nearly unanimous support of all Americans
- has been greatly overexaggerated and distorted beyond its real significance
- impacted only minorities and immigrants
- occurred in all Allied nations except in the United States
- The Fair Employment Practices Committee, established by executive order in 1941, had what object- ive?
- to permit women to be employed in defense work
- to desegregate the armed forces
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- to end “right-to-work” laws
- to prohibit racial discrimination in defense work
- to allow women to serve in the armed forces
- The bracero program:
- led to the forced evacuation of over 100,000 Japanese Americans
- was a reaction to the “zoot-suit” riots
- allowed most recent immigrants to join the American armed services after a thorough background check
- sought to mobilize Indian reservations in support of the American war effort
- brought some 200,000 Mexican farmworkers into the western United States
- The zoot-suit riots of 1943 refer to:
- the violent conflict that erupted in Japanese American internment camps
- uprisings on Navajo Indian reservations in the Southwest protesting the draft
- the violent conflict in Los Angeles that pitted white civilians and servicemen against Mex- ican Americans
- A. Philip Randolph’s march on Washington
- a race riot that erupted in Detroit pitting whites against blacks
- Which statement best describes the Native American experience in the armed forces during World War II?
- Indian servicemen fought in segregated units with African Americans.
- Indian servicemen were integrated into regular units.
- Native Americans were ineligible for service in the armed forces.
- Native Americans refused to serve in the armed forces.
- Native Americans served but were exempt from fighting on the front lines.
- “War relocation camps”:
- housed over 100,000 Japanese Americans during the war
- were actually prisoner-of-war camps for captured Germans
- was the German euphemism for Nazi concentration camps
- helped the families of American servicemen cope with the absence of husbands and fath- ers
- were the bases that housed American servicemen before being sent to the front lines
- Which of the following statements accurately describes the overall approach the British and Americans adopted to fighting the war?
- They prioritized the battle in Asia since Japanese expansion was the greatest global threat.
- They could not agree on priorities and never adopted an overarching strategy.
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- They prioritized the war in Europe since Germany posed the greatest threat to the Western Hemisphere.
- They agreed to devote equal resources to the wars in Asia and Europe since both Germany and Japan threatened the Allies equally.
- Britain agreed to fight the war in Europe, while the United States did the fighting in Asia.
- When Roosevelt and Churchill met to draft a joint war plan in early 1942, they made all of the follow- ing commitments EXCEPT:
- an agreement not to seek a separate peace with common enemies
- an affirmation of the Atlantic Charter
- a pledging of full resources to fight the war
- making a cross-Channel invasion into Europe the first priority of the combined war effort
- appointing Allied war commanders for each theater who were subject to orders from the British-American Combined Chiefs of Staff
- British and American differences over where to attack Germany first were resolved with the decision to launch an offensive:
- across the English Channel
- against Japan
- in the Middle East
- on the Eastern front
- in North Africa
- At the Casablanca Conference, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to all of the following EXCEPT:
- a demand for the “unconditional surrender” of their enemies
- an immediate launching of a cross-Channel invasion into France
- the stepped-up bombing of Germany
- a prioritizing of the anti-submarine campaign in the Atlantic
- increased shipments of military supplies to the Soviet Union
- What helped the Allies gain the advantage in the Battle of the Atlantic?
- The Allies decoded German messages that indicated where the U-boats were.
- The Allies had a submarine advantage over the Germans.
- The Allies’ aircraft-carrier superiority countered the German U-boat advantage.
- The Allies utilized aerial precision bombing of German targets.
- The Allies bypassed the Atlantic to confront the Germans directly in Europ
- Which statement best describes the Allied invasion against Sicily in July 1943?
- The fight for Sicily became known as “the Mediterranean’s Okinaw”
- The well-fortified island proved too difficult for the Allies to capture.
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- Sicily had fallen entirely into the Allied hands in just over a month.
- The fight for Sicily became the first outright defeat for the Allied war effort.
- The Allies captured Mussolini and forced him to surrender.
- How did Germany respond to Italy’s decision to switch sides in September 1943?
- Germany slowed the Allied advance by pouring its own reinforcements into Italy.
- Hitler had Mussolini assassinated.
- Germany abandoned Italy and focused on defending France.
- Hitler offered to surrender to the Allies with conditions.
- Germany diverted its former Italian forces to fight the Soviets.
- All of the following statements about the Allied bombing of Germany during 1943 and 1944 are true EXCEPT:
- American strategic bombers were full-fledged partners of the Royal Air Force
- the bombings caused widespread damage
- the strategic offensive failed to devastate German industrial production
- the Allied bombing indisputably shattered civilian morale in Germany
- the Allies had secured air supremacy over Germany
- What did the 1943 Declaration of Cairo state?
- Egypt would gain independence after the war.
- The war against Germany would continue until its unconditional surrender.
- A cross-Channel invasion into France was the top priority of the Allies.
- Japan had to surrender unconditionally.
- The Holocaust was a crime against humanity.
- What was the main purpose of the 1943 meeting among Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at Tehran?
- to discuss the use of atomic bombs to end the war
- to consider inducing the Axis powers to lay down their arms by abandoning the insistence on “unconditional surrender”
- to reconsider the strategies in the Battle for the Atlantic
- to reprioritize the war in Asia as more important than the war in Europe
- to plan the invasion of France and a Russian offensive across eastern Europe
- D-day refers to the:
- top-secret work of American cryptanalysts (code breakers)
- day the atomic bombs were to be dropped on Japan
- Allied invasion at Normandy
- Allied invasion of North Africa
- joint American-Russian effort to free Poland
- All of the following Pacific engagements helped turn the tide of war against Japan in 1943 and 1944 EXCEPT the:
- Battle of the Bulge
- Battle of Leyte Gulf
- Battle of the Philippine Sea
- Battle of the Bismarck Sea
- invasion of the Marshall Islands
- What was the most significant consequence of the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
- Germany entered the war in the Pacific and fought alongside Japan.
- The Allied forces secured a foothold on the Japanese home islands.
- The Chinese earned their first substantive victory against the Japanese.
- This Japanese surprise victory caused Allied losses so severe it nearly ended the war.
- The Japanese lost their remaining sea power and ability to defend the Philippines.
- In the presidential election of 1944:
- Franklin Roosevelt was defeated in his run for a fourth term as president
- Franklin Roosevelt won a fourth term as president
- Franklin Roosevelt chose not to run for a fourth term because of his health problems and progress toward winning the war
- Harry Truman was elected president
- Republican Wendell Willkie opposed Democrat Franklin Roosevelt
- Following their quick sweep across France, the Allies:
- were forced to retreat to their pre-1944 lines
- lost momentum in the fall of 1944
- just as quickly captured most of Germany
- accepted a conditional German surrender
- were surrounded and nearly defeated in Normandy
- At the Battle of the Bulge:
- the British repelled the German invasion force seeking to conquer Britain
- German forces pushed the Allied amphibious invasion back into the English Channel
- ended the war in Europe when Hitler committed suicide
- Germany’s victory once again threatened an overall Allied defeat
- the destruction of Germany’s last reserve units left open the door to Germany’s heartland from the west
- The Soviet advance toward Germany from the east in 1945:
- alarmed Winston Churchill, who had become suspicious of Soviet intentions
- demonstrated how strong and unified the Alliance remained in the last year of the war
- halted after a devastating defeat at Warsaw
- occurred while fighting alongside British and American forces
- is known as the Battle of the Bulge
- At the Yalta Conference of 1945, the Allies did all of the following EXCEPT:
- call for a conference to create a new world security organization
- agree to Soviet territorial demands in Eastern Europe
- make arrangements for the postwar governance of Germany
- restore the original Polish government to power in Poland
- reaffirm the principles of the Atlantic Charter
- Which statement best describes the Soviets and the Yalta accords?
- The Soviets were given more than they ever asked for.
- The Soviets violated many of the agreements they made at Yalta.
- The Soviets rejected signing any of the Yalta accords.
- The Soviets had little leverage at Yalta to fulfill their objectives.
- The Soviets rejected the request to join the war against Japan.
- Less than a month before the surrender of Germany:
- President Roosevelt lost his reelection bid
- the war in Asia ended with the Japanese surrender
- Hitler was captured by advancing Allied forces
- atomic bombs were dropped on Japan
- President Roosevelt died in office
- The Axis’s defeat and Germany’s surrender included all of the following EXCEPT:
- Hitler’s suicide
- Italian partisans capturing and killing Mussolini
- the Allied capture of Hitler’s mistress, Eva Braun
- the surrender of German forces in Italy
- the signing of a treaty in which Germany agreed to unconditional surrender
- Following the defeat of Germany:
- came the shocking realization of the full extent of the Holocaust
- Hitler was executed after his conviction of war crimes
- the Prussian monarchy was restored to the German throne
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- the Allies established a liberal democratic government with its capital in Berlin
- Franklin Roosevelt died in office
- The American assault on Okinawa:
- failed at great loss of life for the U.S. forces
- was a success but with tremendous loss of life for both the United States and Japan
- was postponed with the development of the atomic bomb
- resulted in the surrender of the Japanese Imperial Army
- prompted the emperor to give up his throne
- The Potsdam Declaration:
- accepted the Japanese surrender and allowed the emperor to remain on the throne “subor- dinate to the authority of the Allied occupation”
- is the formal name for the Soviet Union’s declaration of war against Japan
- threatened that Hiroshima and Nagasaki faced an “atomic holocaust” if Japan did not sur- render
- presented Japan’s terms for surrendering to the Allied powers
- demanded that Japan surrender or face “prompt and utter destruction”
- The use of atomic bombs against Japan had what significance?
- They prevented the Soviets from entering the war in Asi
- They shocked Germany into surrendering before facing the same fate.
- They killed the Japanese emperor and paved the way for surrender.
- They allowed the Americans to avoid an amphibious invasion of Japan.
- They rendered the entire island of Honshu inhabitable for twenty-three years.
- After dropping two atomic bombs on Japan, the United States:
- accepted Japan’s surrender, albeit with the condition that the emperor could keep his throne
- accepted Japan’s unconditional surrender
- launched the amphibious invasion of Japan, the final operation of World War II
- returned its attention to fighting the war in Europe
- dropped a third one on Tokyo to force the Japanese to surrender
- The country that suffered the most deaths in the fighting of World War II was:
- the United States
- Germany
- Japan
- Britain
- the Soviet Union
- As a result of World War II:
- Franklin Roosevelt became a dictator
- the Depression ended
- unemployment increased
- economic growth stagnated
- racial and gender discrimination disappeared in the United States
- As a result of World War II, presidential authority in the United States:
- declined as that of Congress increased
- increased dramatically at the expense of congressional and state power
- suffered as the power of the states increased
- contracted as New Deal agencies disappeared
- experienced no substantive change
- Following the conclusion of World War II, the two most powerful nations in the world were:
- the United States and Britain
- Japan and Germany
- the United States and the Soviet Union
- Germany and Britain
- the United States and Japan
MATCHING
1 Match each description with the item below.
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- was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1944
- headed Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- headed Operation Overlord
- was an American admiral in the Pacific
- was the sitting vice president removed from the 1944 ticket
- lost presidential election in 1944
- was elected vice president in 1944
- was the American general who refused to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge
- said, “People of the Philippines: I have returned”
- directed construction of atomic bombs
- Tony McAuliffe
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Harry S. Truman
- Douglas MacArthur
- Chester Nimitz
- Thomas E. Dewey
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- A. Philip Randolph
- Henry A. Wallace
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