Chapter 23 Self-Quiz 1

. Isolationists believed the United States

should support FDR's lend-lease program with Britain.

should fund-raise on behalf of Democratic candidates.

should worried about growing federal power and the ambitions of Britain and the Soviet Union.

should support a free-trading, open-door world economy as a solution to international conflict.

. Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime was built on

racism and brutality.

a suspension of civil rights.

a secret police designed to eliminate opposition.

All of the above.

. FDR's "lend-lease" program allowed

states to earn block grants from the federal government.

Britain to borrow military equipment from the United States

the United States to sell military supplies to the Axis Powers.

minorities to receive equal treatment in New Deal programs.

. The Neutrality Act of 1935 and its 1936 and 1937 amendments

prohibited Americans from volunteering for the armed services of Great Britain.

required belligerent nations that wanted to buy nonmilitary goods from the United States to pay in cash and supply their own shipping.

prohibited Americans from shipping goods on the ships of belligerent nations.

reflected the internationalist sentiments of the congressional majority.

. In the months leading up to Pearl Harbor,

the United States cut off oil exports to Japan.

Germany withdrew its troops form the Soviet Union.

Congress did not express American opposition to territorial change by conquest.

Congress emphasized the defeat of imperial Japan as the first priority.

. All of the following statements about Pearl Harbor are true except

Japanese/American disputes over oil and rubber made confrontation seem imminent.

FDR had already assumed a firm but defensive policy in the Pacific.

The United States had begun to crack Japanese codes, but anticipated an attack in Asia.

In response, the United States declared war against Germany and Japan.

. In early 1940, American military strength could be characterized as

in desperate need of more fighting men.

outnumbered and out equipped compared to the Germans.

"a few nice boys with BB guns."

All of the above.

. During World War II, the American military

was open to African Americans by presidential decree.

was made up of only white American men.

excluded women from serving until 1945.

was poorly equipped and trained until 1945.

. The Manhattan Project

produced the atomic bomb.

financed the production of American war materials.

financed and manufactured to B-29 Superfortress.

financed the production of the atomic bomb.

. Although Detroit, Michigan, received a substantial number of war manufacturing contracts, the majority of war contracts were awarded to the

Northeast.

South and North.

West and Southwest.

South and West.

. "Rosie the Riveter" was

a patriotic cartoon produced by Walt Disney.

the graphic image of a glamorous machinist who labored in American industry to bring her man home from war.

a woman in wartime propaganda documentaries produced in Hollywood.

All of the above.

. All of the following refer to the Japanese internment during World War II except:

Some 2,000 Japanese Americans were enclosed in remote regions of the West and the Arkansas swamps.

The relocation was legal on grounds of "military necessity."

Japanese "aliens and nonaliens" were ordered to report to relocation centers for removal from the Pacific Coast war zone.

It was used by some as a model for the treatment of suspect populations during the next national emergency.

. The United States responded to reports of the Holocaust with all of the following except:

Many Americans dismissed reports of the Holocaust as someone else's business.

The U.S. State Department erected paper barriers to keep unwanted immigrants out of the United States.

The United States relaxed immigration quotas to admit all Jewish refugees from Europe.

The United States refused to allow ships with refugees from the extermination camps to dock in the United States.

. Eventually, in a case brought by Fred Korematsu, the Supreme Court ruled Japanese internment

Unconstitutional

Constitutional

Not subject to review

A model for the treatment of suspect populations during the next national emergency

. President Harry S. Truman ordered the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

to test how useful these new weapons would be in Europe.

as a first step in a plan to annihilate the Japanese people.

to avenge Pearl Harbor and the Bataan Death March.

to force Japan to surrender.

. Marxists and Communists were the main targets of Hitler's Germany military campaigns.

TRUE

FALSE

. In order to force the Japanese to attack the US, the American government placed an embargo on oil exported to Japan.

TRUE

FALSE

. The American military was exceptionally equipped and trained to confront the Japanese and Germans in early 1942.

TRUE

FALSE

. Instead of invading Europe in 1942, Lt. Gen. Eisenhower supported the invasion of North Africa.

TRUE

FALSE

. American wartime production was sluggish and poor.

TRUE

FALSE

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