Exam 25: World War Ii

A) The FBI engaged in extensive and often illegal wiretapping for domestic surveillance.
B) The FBI rounded up anarchists and deported many Bolsheviks.
C) The FBI appealed to the patriotism of Americans but did not violate their civil rights.
D) The FBI engaged the press, radio, and the motion picture industry to market patriotism during the era.

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A) Torch
B) Manhattan
C) Gadget
D) Overlord

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A) The Red Army forced Nazi troops to abandon their invasion of the Soviet Union and retreat westward toward Germany.
B) Stalin's forces invaded eastern Germany and captured Berlin.
C) The Soviet strategic air offensive on German cities and industrial centers broke resistance and facilitated an Allied invasion from the west.
D) The Red Army's occupation of the Balkans and Hungary cut Germany's access to oil and food supplies shipped through the Mediterranean Sea.

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A) the Treaty of Versailles
B) the Catholic church
C) Italian interference in German affairs
D) the Germans' own failures

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A) the freedom of all peoples from tyranny
B) a European currency and a unified economy
C) economic support for the Soviet Union
D) any country committed to fighting the rise of socialism

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A) A number of activities traditionally overseen by the federal government were delegated to the states.
B) Military matters became the sole focus of the government.
C) Government spending fell, but the size of the government increased.
D) The size and scope of the government increased dramatically.

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A) The noble objectives for the postwar global community were largely ignored for more opportunistic issues, such as spheres of influence.
B) The Allied leaders continued to support the Atlantic Charter's ideal of self-determination in place of territorial aggrandizement as they planned for the rebuilding of Europe and Japan.
C) Roosevelt and Churchill continued to uphold self-determination and disarmament by refusing to give in to Stalin's demand for a Soviet-controlled Eastern European buffer zone between Russia and Germany.
D) Britain and the United States upheld the Atlantic Charter's objectives by giving up their colonial interests in Asia and the Pacific in exchange for a Soviet declaration of war against Japan.

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A) Clement Atlee
B) Winston Churchill
C) Wendell Willkie
D) Charles Drew

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A) at the beginning of the war
B) through government films detailing Nazi atrocities
C) only as the war entered its final stages
D) as European Jewish refugees flooded into the United States from 1941 onward

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A) many conscripts in both wars were turned away as functionally illiterate
B) blacks were barred from military service in both wars
C) very few recruits in either war were found physically unfit for service
D) about equal numbers of men served in the two wars

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A) Air Force ferry pilots
B) nurses in the Army
C) Navy cooks
D) Marine Corps training officers

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A) Congress
B) the president
C) the Joint Chiefs of Staff
D) the Defense Department

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A) nursing or administration
B) assembly-line jobs
C) secretarial positions
D) mechanical repairs

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A) eight months in combat should be the maximum
B) the problem derived from an individual's weakness, not the conditions of war
C) most soldiers should see no more than a 13-month tour of duty
D) women were incapable of serving in combat roles

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The ideal answer should include:
Neutral...

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A) be preoccupied with European diplomacy and would ignore Japanese conquests in Southeast Asia
B) remain in isolation and take no role in the overseas conflicts
C) join the Allies in Europe and concentrate on Europe
D) join the Axis alliance and assist in their cause

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A) It basically withered away due to economic progress and the addition of many new Republicans in Congress.
B) It was dramatically strengthened due to Roosevelt's popularity.
C) It maintained its previous strengths due to the chaotic nature of the war years.
D) It lost some authority but managed to rally after many new Democrats were voted into Congress.

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A) Few people in the Dutch, British, and French colonies were willing to fight for their imperial masters.
B) Japan was militarily superior to the British troops that were called into Burma and the Philippines.
C) The United States remained neutral and did not send in soldiers to assist the weakened French troops in Indochina.
D) Japan recruited the assistance of the Korean and Vietnamese militaries to conquer the entire area.

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