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1 | | During the first few months following American entry into World War II, |
| | A) | national opinion was sharply divided about the war. |
| | B) | national opinion was remarkably unified even though the war was going badly. |
| | C) | national opinion was initially divided but soon was unified by a string of impressive victories. |
| | D) | national opinion was ambivalent and fairly uninvolved due to the so-called phony war. |
| | E) | national opinion was strongly against the war. |
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2 | | The Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway were significant in |
| | A) | saving the Philippines from being invaded. |
| | B) | thwarting the Japanese army's drive through Burma. |
| | C) | stemming the tide of Japanese advances in the Pacific. |
| | D) | dividing the last vestiges of American sea power from the Pacific. |
| | E) | gaining American support for the war in the Pacific. |
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3 | | The first area to be liberated from Axis occupation by the Allies was |
| | A) | France. |
| | B) | Sicily. |
| | C) | the Balkans. |
| | D) | Poland. |
| | E) | North Africa. |
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4 | | The Soviet Union's position regarding the American and British campaigns in North Africa and Italy was to |
| | A) | favor both because they tied down the Axis forces. |
| | B) | oppose both because they delayed the cross-channel invasion of France. |
| | C) | oppose North Africa but favor Italy since it was closer to Germany. |
| | D) | favor North Africa but oppose Italy because it was after the Stalingrad victory. |
| | E) | favor Italy because North Africa was too far away for Allied troops to support the Soviet Union. |
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5 | | With reference to World War II, the term Holocaust refers to |
| | A) | Hitler's blitzkrieg against Poland. |
| | B) | Hitler's campaign to provide Germans with more living space. |
| | C) | the American nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| | D) | the American effort to prevent Hitler's extermination of the Jews. |
| | E) | Hitler's campaign to exterminate the Jews. |
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6 | | During the war years, the federal budget |
| | A) | decreased by 20%. |
| | B) | stayed the same. |
| | C) | increased by 10%. |
| | D) | increased by 1000%. |
| | E) | increased by 100%. |
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7 | | Which region of the United States benefited the most from wartime spending? |
| | A) | the Northeast |
| | B) | the Midwest |
| | C) | the Plains |
| | D) | New England |
| | E) | the West |
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8 | | The War Production Board |
| | A) | never gained as much power as the War Industries Board of World War I. |
| | B) | caused a failure to meet the nation's critical war needs. |
| | C) | thrived under the political and administrative savvy of Donald Nelson. |
| | D) | controlled all purchases by the nation's armed forces during the war. |
| | E) | worked to fight price inflation. |
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9 | | The two largest groups of migrants to American cities during World War II were |
| | A) | Japanese Americans and African Americans. |
| | B) | Mexican Americans and Southern whites. |
| | C) | African Americans and Mexican Americans. |
| | D) | Native Americans and Chinese Americans. |
| | E) | Southern whites and Japanese Americans. |
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10 | | The famous image of "Rosie the Riveter" |
| | A) | symbolized the erosion of some of the prejudice against women working in traditionally male jobs. |
| | B) | symbolized a permanent change in the status of working mothers in the American economy. |
| | C) | symbolized the continued categorization of women in jobs deemed appropriate for them by male bosses. |
| | D) | showed how women's work was analogized to their traditional roles in the home. |
| | E) | created permanent negative stereotypes of women in the workforce. |
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11 | | Which does NOT describe the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II? |
| | A) | The Supreme Court upheld their evacuation from the West Coast. |
| | B) | Reparations were finally paid to evacuees about forty years after the war. |
| | C) | Many of the evacuees were United States citizens. |
| | D) | Outside California, there was widespread public opposition to the internment policy. |
| | E) | There is no evidence these Japanese Americans were engaging in conspiracies. |
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12 | | The objective of the Manhattan Project was to develop |
| | A) | the atomic bomb. |
| | B) | synthetic rubber. |
| | C) | a system of coastal defenses. |
| | D) | a system for dispersion of civilian urban population. |
| | E) | relocation centers for Japanese Americans. |
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13 | | Harry S. Truman came to national prominence and the vice presidency through |
| | A) | leading the southern conservative wing in Congress. |
| | B) | managing Roosevelt's renomination campaign at the Democratic convention. |
| | C) | coordinating the planning of the D-Day invasion. |
| | D) | assuming the job of Supreme Allied Commander. |
| | E) | chairing an investigative committee that exposed waste and corruption in wartime production. |
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14 | | In the final months of World War II in Europe, American and British forces |
| | A) | pushed into the heart of Germany while Soviet troops bogged down in Poland. |
| | B) | entered Germany from the west and Soviet troops entered Germany from the east and occupied Berlin. |
| | C) | stalled along the Rhine River just outside Germany until they linked with Soviet forces. |
| | D) | rushed toward Berlin to gain a "knock-out punch" on Hitler before the Soviet troops could arrive in the capital city. |
| | E) | were unable to break into France through Normandy. |
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15 | | During World War II, the Japanese word kamikaze referred to |
| | A) | atomic fallout. |
| | B) | ritual disembowelment. |
| | C) | the lightning speed with which Japanese armies swept through Southeast Asia. |
| | D) | a suicide mission in which a Japanese pilot purposely crashed his plane into an enemy ship. |
| | E) | living space. |
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16 | | The Battle of Leyte Gulf |
| | A) | demonstrated that the Japanese fleet was still strong enough to slow the potential American invasion force. |
| | B) | brought the Soviet Union into the Pacific War. |
| | C) | all but destroyed Japan's ability to continue serious naval warfare. |
| | D) | stopped the Japanese advance in the central Pacific near Guam and Midway. |
| | E) | was the last major battle on the western front. |
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17 | | In the weeks before the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan, Japanese political and military leaders |
| | A) | were united in their determination to continue the war. |
| | B) | were united in their decision to seek peace. |
| | C) | were split with some wishing to seek peace and others wishing to continue the fight. |
| | D) | offered to surrender if they could keep control of Okinawa and Korea. |
| | E) | decided to surrender after Hitler died. |
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18 | | The key facilities for development and production of the American atomic bomb were located in |
| | A) | New York City and Chicago. |
| | B) | Tennessee, Washington, and New Mexico. |
| | C) | Wyoming and Pennsylvania. |
| | D) | Southern California, Georgia, and Oklahoma. |
| | E) | Virginia and Maryland. |
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19 | | One of the two locations on which the United States dropped atomic bombs were |
| | A) | Khe Sahn |
| | B) | Yokohama |
| | C) | Tokyo |
| | D) | Okinawa |
| | E) | Nagasaki |
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20 | | When did the Soviet Union enter the Pacific War against Japan? |
| | A) | in June 1941, right after Hitler attacked the Soviet Union |
| | B) | in December 1941, right after the bombing of Pearl Harbor |
| | C) | in February 1945, right after the Yalta Conference |
| | D) | in February 1944, after a series of Allied victories in the Marshall Islands |
| | E) | in August 1945, about a week before the Japanese surrendered |
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21 | | When American soldiers returned home from the war, they found a nation that looked |
| | A) | largely the same as it did when they left. |
| | B) | completely transformed by wartime rationing. |
| | C) | completely transformed by the economic prosperity the war created. |
| | D) | as different as the European and Asian nations they had left behind. |
| | E) | completely transformed by anti-war sentiment. |
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