Ch. 22 Fighting For The Four Freedoms: World War II Pt. 2

Question 1

As the war drew to a close, tensions emerged among the ______ powers over Stalin’s reluctance to allow self-rule in eastern Europe, and Churchill’s reluctance to allow self-rule for Great Britain’s colonies.

Answer 1

Allied

Question 2

As the war drew to a close, tensions emerged among the Allied powers over _______’s reluctance to allow self-rule in eastern Europe, and _________’s reluctance to allow self-rule for Great Britain’s colonies.

Answer 2

Stalin’s

Churchill’s

Question 3

True or False: During World War II, the federal government spent twice the amount of money it had spent in all of the previous 150 years of American history.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

True or False: At Bataan in the Philippines, U.S. and Filipino forces captured 78,000 Japanese soldiers in the largest surrender in Japanese military history.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

True or False: The “double-V” campaign stood for a double victory, one in the European Theatre and one in the Pacific Theatre.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

During World War II, the NAACP and American Jewish Congress cooperated closely in advocating laws to ban discrimination in ___________ and ________.

Answer 6

employment

housing

Question 7

During World War II, the _______ and __________ _______ _________ cooperated closely in advocating laws to ban discrimination in employment and housing.

Answer 7

NAACP

American Jewish Congress

Question 8

The United States inflicted severe losses on the _________ Navy in the Battle of Midway Island.

Answer 8

Japanese

Question 9

The United States inflicted severe losses on the Japanese Navy in the ______ ___ _______ _______.

Answer 9

Battle of Midway Island

Question 10

________ became firmly established in many sectors of the economy during World War II.

Answer 10

Unions

Question 11

During World War II, ___ ________ American men served in the military, and _________ women served in auxiliary military units.

Answer 11

15 million

350,000

Question 12

During World War II, 15 million American men served in the ________, and 350,000 women served in ________ _______ _____.

Answer 12

military

auxiliary military units

Question 13

How many Russians died during World War II?

Answer 13

At least 20 million Russians

Question 14

True or False: President Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 ordered the internment of all Japanese-Americans who refused to sign an oath of loyalty to the United States.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

True or False: The America First Committee sought to ensure that America would be one of the first nations to enter the conflict against Adolf Hitler.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

True or False: Following America’s entry into the war, the federal government assumed vast powers to oversee the national economy.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True or False: By the late 1930s, Americans were nearly universally in favor of intervening militarily in Germany to stop the horrors being perpetrated against Jews and others by Adolf Hitler and his followers.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

True or False: Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler were bitter enemies who could agree upon nothing at the beginning of World War II.

Answer 18

False

Question 19

How did Henry Ford feel about the U.S.’s involvement of World War II?

Answer 19

Henry Ford opposed U.S. involvement in World War II.

Question 20

True or False: The Roosevelt administration paid little attention to foreign affairs before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

True or False: With the coming of peace, women employed in war-related industries came under increasing pressure to leave their jobs and resume their role as homemakers.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

The term “blitzkrieg” means “________ ____”

Answer 22

“lightning war”

Question 23

The term “________” means “lightning war.”

Answer 23

“blitzkrieg”

Question 24

True or False: War mobilization lifted the industrial Northeast out of the Depression, but left the economies of the South and the West virtually untouched.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

True or False: Germany suffered far higher casualties among its soldiers on the Western Front than it did on the Russian Front.

Answer 25

False

Question 26

True or False: In World War I, the French had been successful at keeping the invading German army out of Paris; in World War II, the French also succeeded in keeping the Nazis from occupying Paris.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

____ _________ greatly strengthened the size and stature of the American labor movement.

Answer 27

War mobilization

Question 28

War mobilization greatly strengthened the ____ and _______ of the American labor movement.

Answer 28

size | stature

Question 29

War mobilization greatly strengthened the size and stature of the ________ ______ _________.

Answer 29

American labor movement

Question 30

In ____ _____, the United States Navy thwarted a Japanese attack against Australia in the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Answer 30

May 1942

Question 31

In May 1942, the United States Navy thwarted a _________ attack against Australia in the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Answer 31

Japanese

Question 32

In May 1942, the United States Navy thwarted a Japanese attack against _________ in the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Answer 32

Australia

Question 33

In May 1942, the United States Navy thwarted a Japanese attack against Australia in the Battle of ____ ______ ____.

Answer 33

the Coral Sea

Question 34

Most of the bloodshed that occurred in Europe during World War II took place on the _________ front.

Answer 34

eastern

Question 35

During World War II, membership numbers for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) grew to approximately _________.

Answer 35

500,000