Question 1

A major success for Germany and its allies during World War II was

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the "blitzkrieg" campaign.

Question 2

As the war drew to a close, tensions emerged among the Allied 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.

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true

Question 3

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

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false

Question 4

By 1944, the United States produced a plane every five minutes and a ship every day.

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true

Question 5

Congress passed this legislation in 1941, which authorized military aid as countries promised to return it all after the war. The passing allowed the U.S. to funnel billions of dollars' worth of arms to Britain, China, and later the Soviet Union.

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Lend-Lease Act

Question 6

During Germany's effort to seize Stalingrad beginning in August 1942, 800,000 Germans and 1.2 million Russians died in the fighting.

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true

Question 7

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.

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true

Question 8

Following America's entry into the war, the federal government assumed vast powers to oversee the national economy.

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true

Question 9

In the 1944 case of Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that

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the internment of people of Japanese descent was not based on race.

Question 10

June 6, 1944, the day on which nearly 200,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers landed in northwestern France, in Normandy, is known as

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D-Day

Question 11

Millions of Americans moved out of urban ethnic neighborhoods and isolated rural enclaves into the army and industrial plants where they came into contact with people from various backgrounds, creating a melting pot that historians call

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patriotic assimilation.

Question 12

Some 30 million Americans moved during World War II. Half of these people

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went into military service.

Question 13

The congressional legislation that extended an array of benefits, including unemployment pay, educational scholarships, low-cost mortgage loans, pensions, and job training to millions of returning veterans beginning in 1944, was called

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the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, or GI Bill of Rights.

Question 14

The desire for both victory at home against segregation and victory overseas against the Germans and the Japanese came to be called this by African-Americans during World War II.

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the "double-V"

Question 15

The limits of wartime tolerance were tested in 1943 Los Angeles with the

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zoot suit riots

Question 16

The self-confident woman portrayed as fully capable of doing a man's job on posters and on magazine covers during World War II was called

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Rosie the Riveter."

Question 17

This area of the country emerged as a focus of military-industrial production during WWII.

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West Coast

Question 18

Under this program, tens of thousands of contract laborers from Mexico crossed into the United States to take up jobs as domestic and agricultural workers during World War II.

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bracero program

Question 19

Which was not a goal or action of Adolf Hitler's?

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He seized control of the Philippines and Malaysia.

Question 20

Which was not one of the Four Freedoms, President Roosevelt's shorthand for American purposes in World War II?

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freedom of liberty

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