Ch 23

Front 1

____________ had the highest number of total dead in World War II.

Back 1

The Soviet Union

Front 2

All of the following statements about women workers on the home front are true EXCEPT:

Back 2

the percentage of women working in manufacturing jobs did not increase.

Front 3

A turning point on the Eastern Front came when

Back 3

the Soviet Union forced a German surrender after the Battle of Stalingrad.

Front 4

In the early years of World War II, the War Department:

Back 4

believed that photos of dead Americans would weaken morale on the home front.

Front 5

Justice Frank Murphy cited each of the following in his dissent fromKorematsu v. United States except:

Back 5

Japanese Americans were virtually unanimous in their loyalty to the United States.

Front 6

During World War II, riots in Detroit and Los Angeles revealed that:

Back 6

racial divisiveness was still a social problem in America.

Front 7

By the end of 1943, Germany had conquered all of the following countries, EXCEPT:

Back 7

Great Britain.

Front 8

After Japan invaded ______________, Roosevelt froze Japanese assets in the United States and stopped petroleum shipments to Japan.

Back 8

French Indochina

Front 9

A special kind of wartime souvenir collected by American troops assigned to the Pacific theatre was:

Back 9

human body parts

Front 10

Critics of President Truman's decision to use the atomic bombs argue each of the following except:

Back 10

use of the bombs may have saved as many as one million American lives.

Front 11

All of the following statements about Japan in the last year of the war are true EXCEPT:

Back 11

Japanese forces retreated from Okinawa in an effort to save lives.

Front 12

Which of the following was the LEAST significant reason why the Allies won World War II?

Back 12

military preparedness before the war

Front 13

Nazi aggression was finally stalled in 1940 and early 1941 when:

Back 13

England steadfastly resisted the Nazis in the Battle of Britain.

Front 14

In the months leading up to Pearl Harbor:

Back 14

FDR increased U.S. naval presence in the Pacific.

Front 15

Tens of thousands of German civilians were killed in the "terror raid" fire bombing of:

Back 15

Dresden.

Front 16

Germany's invasion of _________ in September of 1939 marked the start of World War II.

Back 16

Poland

Front 17

The Manhattan Project was the code name for:

Back 17

the project to develop the atomic bomb.

Front 18

FDR's "lend-lease" program allowed:

Back 18

Britain to borrow military equipment from the United States.

Front 19

At the Yalta Conference in 1945, the US, Britain and the Soviet Union:

Back 19

all of the above.