Chapter 35 Flashcards
As World War II began for the United States in 1941, President Roosevelt
decided to concentrate first on the war in Europe and to place the Pacific war on hold
Once at war, Americans first great challenge was to
retool its industry for all-out war production
Overall, most ethnic groups in the United States during World War II
were further assimilated into American society
Japanese-Americans were placed in concentration camps during World War II
as a result of anti-Japanese prejudice and fear
The minority groups most adversely affected by Washington’s wartime policies was
Japanese-Americans
In the 1800s the Japanese government drove many Japanese farmers off their land by
imposing a steep land tax
In the period from 1885 to 1924, Japanese immigrants to the U.S. were
select representatives of their nation
When the U.S. entered World War II in December 1941,
a majority of Americans had no clear idea of what the war was about
During World War II, the United States government commissioned the production of synthetic ________________ in order to offset the loss of access to prewar supplies in East Asia.
rubber
While American workers, on the whole, were committed to the war effort, several unions went on strike. The most prominent was the
United Mine Workers
During World War II,
labor unions substantially increased their membership
The employment of more than six million women in American industry during World War II led to
the establishment of day-care centers by the government
The main reason that the majority of women war workers left the labor force at the end of WWII was
family obligations
African-Americans did all of the following during World War II except
fight in integrated combat units
Which of the following is least related to the other three?
Smith-Connally Act
Big-government intervention got its biggest boost from
World War II
The northward migration of African-Americans accelerated after World War II because
Mechanical cotton pickers came into use
During World War II, American Indians
moved off reservations in large numbers
By the end of World War II, the heart of the United States’ African-American community had shifted to
northern cities
The national debt increased most during
WWII
Most of the money raised to finance World War II came through
borrowing
The first naval battle in history in which all of the fighting was done by carrier-based aircraft was the Battle of
The Coral Sea
The tide of Japanese conquest in the Pacific was turned following the Battle of
Midway
The Japanese made a crucial mistake in 1942 in their attempt to control much of the Pacific when they
overextended themselves instead of digging in and consolidating their gains
In waging war against Japan, the United States relied on a strategy of
“island hopping” across the South Pacific while bypassing Japanese strongholds
The conquest of ________________ was especially important, because from there Americans could conduct round-trip bombing raids on the Japanese home islands.
Guam
The Allies won the Battle of the Atlantic by doing all of the following except
organizing Allied “wolf packs” to chase down German U-boats
Hitler’s advance in the European theater of war crested in late 1942 at the Battle of Battle of ________________, after which his fortunes gradually
Stalingrad
The Allies postponed opening a second front in Europe until 1944 because
of British reluctance and lack of adequate shipping
The Allied demand for unconditional surrender was criticized mainly by opponents who believed that such surrender would
encourage the enemy to resist as long as possible
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced at their wartime conference in Casablanca that their principal war aim was to
force the unconditional surrender of both Germany and Japan
Arrange these wartime conferences in chronological order: (A) V-J Day, (B) V-E Day, (C) D Day, (D) invasion of Italy
D, C, B, A
The major consequence of the Allied conquest of Sicily in August 1943 was
a modification of the demand of unconditional surrender of Italy
After the Italian surrender in August, 1943,
the Soviets accepted the wisdom of delaying the invasion of France and pursuing the second front in Italy
The real impact of the Italian front on World War II may have been that it
delayed the D-Day invasion and allowed the Soviet Union to advance further into Eastern Europe
At the wartime Teheran Conference,
the Soviet Union agreed to declare war on Japan within three months
The cross-channel invasion of Normandy to open a second front in Europe was commanded by General
Bernard Montgomery
In a sense, Franklin Roosevelt was the “forgotten man” at the Democratic Convention in 1944 because
he remained in Washington, D.C., to conduct the war
Action by the U.S. against Hitler’s campaign of genocide against the Jews
was reprehensibly slow in coming
As a result of the Battle of Leyte Gulf,
Japan was finished as a naval power
The Potsdam conference
determined the fate of Eastern Europe
