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19 Cards in this Set
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____________ had the highest number of total dead in World War II. |
The Soviet Union |
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All of the following statements about women workers on the home front are true EXCEPT:
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the percentage of women working in manufacturing jobs did not increase. |
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A turning point on the Eastern Front came when |
the Soviet Union forced a German surrender after the Battle of Stalingrad. |
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In the early years of World War II, the War Department: |
believed that photos of dead Americans would weaken morale on the home front. |
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Justice Frank Murphy cited each of the following in his dissent fromKorematsu v. United States except: |
Japanese Americans were virtually unanimous in their loyalty to the United States. |
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During World War II, riots in Detroit and Los Angeles revealed that: |
racial divisiveness was still a social problem in America. |
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By the end of 1943, Germany had conquered all of the following countries, EXCEPT: |
Great Britain. |
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After Japan invaded ______________, Roosevelt froze Japanese assets in the United States and stopped petroleum shipments to Japan. |
French Indochina |
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A special kind of wartime souvenir collected by American troops assigned to the Pacific theatre was: |
human body parts |
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Critics of President Truman's decision to use the atomic bombs argue each of the following except: |
use of the bombs may have saved as many as one million American lives. |
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All of the following statements about Japan in the last year of the war are true EXCEPT: |
Japanese forces retreated from Okinawa in an effort to save lives. |
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Which of the following was the LEAST significant reason why the Allies won World War II? |
military preparedness before the war |
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Nazi aggression was finally stalled in 1940 and early 1941 when: |
England steadfastly resisted the Nazis in the Battle of Britain. |
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In the months leading up to Pearl Harbor: |
FDR increased U.S. naval presence in the Pacific. |
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Tens of thousands of German civilians were killed in the "terror raid" fire bombing of: |
Dresden. |
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Germany's invasion of _________ in September of 1939 marked the start of World War II. |
Poland |
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The Manhattan Project was the code name for: |
the project to develop the atomic bomb. |
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FDR's "lend-lease" program allowed: |
Britain to borrow military equipment from the United States. |
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At the Yalta Conference in 1945, the US, Britain and the Soviet Union: |
all of the above. |