front 1 FDR's "lend-lease" program allowed (Ch23, p.689) | back 1 Britain to borrow military equipment from the United States |
front 2 In the months leading up to Pearl Harbor (Ch23, p.690-692) | back 2 FDR increased U.S. naval presence in the Pacific |
front 3 Which statement about Pearl Harbor is true? (Ch23, p. 691-692) | back 3 Radar had detected imcoming planes, but U.S. officials assumed these were American aircrafts. |
front 4 Japanese Americans in the state of ______________ were treated most leniently. (Ch23, p. 694) | back 4 Hawaii |
front 5 Which is the correct trio of Axis Powers in World War II? (Ch23, review of chatper) | back 5 Germany, Japan, Italy |
front 6 The first check to Japanese expansion came at the Battle of the Coral Sea when (Ch23, p. 702-703) | back 6 U.S. aircraft carriers halted a Japanese advance toward Australia. |
front 7 Germany's invasion of _________ in September of 1939 marked the start of WWII. (Ch23, review of chapter) | back 7 Poland |
front 8 Which of the following areas was most insulated from the fighting in WWII? (Ch23, review of chapter) | back 8 North America |
front 9 All of the following statements about war production are true except (C23, review of chapter) | back 9 males no longer resented economic competition from female employees |
front 10 Where would one most likely find a zoot-suit during WWII? (Ch23, p.700-701) | back 10 in America's popular culture |
front 11 After the fall of Mussolini (Ch23, p.703) | back 11 bitter fighting for the control of Italy took place between the Allies and Germany |
front 12 On June 6, 1944 the allies launched (Ch23, p.705) | back 12 the official invasion of Normandy |
front 13 Who led the American forces at Omaha Beach? (Ch23, p. 707) | back 13 Dwight Eisenhower |
front 14 The Manhattan Project was the code name for (Ch23, p.711-712) | back 14 the project to develop the atomic bomb |
front 15 The main reason behind Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb was (Ch23, p.712-713) | back 15 to save the lives of American soldiers and end the war as fast as possible |
front 16 Japan surrendered to the United States (Ch23, p.712) | back 16 after the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb |
front 17 ___________________ had the highest number of total dead in WWII. (Ch23, p.714) | back 17 The Soviet Union |
front 18 In the early years of WWII, the War Department (Ch23, 706) | back 18 beleived that photos of dead Americans would weaken morale on the home front. |
front 19 The most famous photograph of WWII depicted (ch23, p.706) | back 19 the U.S. flag being raised at Iwo Jima. |
front 20 The internment of Japanese Americans can be linked to ethnic prejudice and earlier waves of nativism in America (Ch23, p.694-695) | back 20 True |
front 21 Despite their military service, black soldiers were subjected to racism during WWII, and in at least one instance treated worse than Nazi prisoners (Ch23, p.700) | back 21 True |
front 22 The Battle of Midway is significant because it transformed the role of Japan's navy from offensive to defensive. (Ch23, p.703) | back 22 True |
front 23 Russia lost more soldiers on the battlefield than all other countries (Axis Nations and Allies) combined. (Ch23, p.714) | back 23 True |
front 24 The year 1946 saw the beginning of 40-plus year era of (Ch24, review of chapter) | back 24 rivalry with communism and the Soviet Union |
front 25 The content of George Kennan's "long telegram" depicted (Ch24, p.722) | back 25 an aggressive U.S.S.R. driven by expansionist communism |
front 26 The main purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to (Ch24, p.724) | back 26 contain communism by not letting it spread to other nation |
front 27 A major effect of the Marshall Plan was (Ch24, p.724-725) | back 27 a strengthening of the economic relationship between the United States and western Europe |
front 28 Which countries each controlled a zone within Germany after WWII? (Ch24, p.726-727) | back 28 U.S., Britain, U.S.S.R., and France |
front 29 The U.S. and other Western nations responded to the Berlin blockade by (ch24, p.72) | back 29 airlifting supplies into the isolated city. |
front 30 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (CH24, p.722, 726) | back 30 solidified tires between the United States and its western European allies. |
front 31 The content of National Security Council Paper 68 argued that (Ch24, p.730) | back 31 military solutions should be encouraged to contain communism |
front 32 The world was brought to the brink of Word War III surrounding a civil war in (Ch24, p. 730-731) | back 32 Korea |
front 33 Bomb shelters were distinctively marked with what emblem? (Ch24, p. 736) | back 33 Three yellow triangles on a black circle |
front 34 The major importance of the Alger Hiss case was that (Ch24, p.738) | back 34 Americans came to the sudden conclusion that their nation faced a Communist enemy from within |
front 35 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (Ch24, p.738) | back 35 were convicted and electrocuted for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union |
front 36 One of HUAC's first targets was to investigate alleged communism in (Ch24, p.739) | back 36 the film industry |
front 37 In the incident at the Bay of Pigs, the U.S. (Ch24, p. 745) | back 37 failed to overthrow Fidel Castro with a CIA-backed invasion |
front 38 The Cuban Missile Crisis began when (Ch24, p.745-746) | back 38 the U.S. discovered that the USSR was installing offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba |
front 39 President Kennedy's main strategy in dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis was (Ch24, p.745) | back 39 imposing a naval blockade around Cuba until the crisis was resolved |
front 40 Although Sputnik was only the size of a large basketball and weighed 183 pounds it was a grand feat of engineering (Ch24, p. 742) | back 40 True |
front 41 Civil rights reforms enacted by the Truman administration included (C25, p.754) | back 41 desegregation of the armed forces |
front 42 Third-party presidential candidate Strom Thurmond left the Democratic Party because of his (Ch25, p.725) | back 42 opposition to civil rights reforms raised by party members |
front 43 Harry Truman's economic package was known as the (Ch25, p.754) | back 43 Fair Deal |
front 44 The GI Bill was geared in part at helping veterans in the areas of (Ch25, p.757) | back 44 housing |
front 45 Levittown represented a change toward (Ch25, p.758) | back 45 affordable homes in American suburbs |
front 46 One trend of the period 1946-1964 was (Ch25, p. 758) | back 46 a significant increase in the number of babies being born |
front 47 A key to Dwight Eisenhower's political success was his (Ch25, review of chapter) | back 47 positive image with both liberals and conservatives |
front 48 Situation-comedy television shows of the 1950s portrayed American families as (Ch25, p.760) | back 48 white, polite, and happy |
front 49 In Brown v. Board of Education ,the Supreme Court ruled that (Ch2, p. 766) | back 49 segregation in public schools was unconstitutional |
front 50 Methods used by blacks in winning the Montgomery bus strike included (Ch25, p.768-770) | back 50 the use of car pools despite violent and political harrassment |
front 51 The young, charismatic leader of the successful Montgomery bus strike was (Ch25, p.769) | back 51 Martin Luther King, Jr. |
front 52 In Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 (Ch25, p.771-772) | back 52 federal troops ensured the safety of black students from any white mobs |
front 53 In February 1960, four black college students began a trend toward mass involvement in (Ch25, p. 773) | back 53 lunch counter sit-ins |
front 54 Rosa Parks, when ordered to stand so that a white man could sit on Birmingham, Alabama, city bus, hose to (Ch25, p. 769) | back 54 remain seated and risk arrest |