APUSH Chapter 26

In World War II, the main American strategy to fight Japan was to

In World War II, one of the primary American commanders in the Pacific was

The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942

The Battle of Midway in 1942

After 1943, the United States advanced on Japan primarily with the aid of forces from

During World War II, the United States Army chief of staff was

In 1943, the country that pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany was

In 1942-1943, the British and American war effort against the Nazis concentrated on

In 1942, in the North African campaign against the Nazis, the

In 1943, in a meeting in Casablanca, the Allies decided they would next invade

During World War II, the first Axis country to be defeated was

The Allied decisions that delayed an invasion of France

The U.S. government acquired definite knowledge of the Holocaust

During World War II, Allied bombers targeted

Regarding European Jewish refugees, between 1939 and 1945, the United States

Between 1939 and 1945, the federal budget of the United States

During World War II, the regional impact of government spending was the greatest in the

During World War II, the labor force of the United States

During World War II, organized labor in the United States

Which of the following is true of organized American labor during World War II?

The Smith-Connally Act of 1943

Over the course of World War II, inflation in the United States

In 1943, to simplify tax collections, Congress enacted

During World War II, the War Production Board

During World War II, the National Defense Research Committee

During World War II, the effectiveness of German U-boats and underwater mines was greatly reduced by the development of

During World War II, Germany held the technological edge over the Allies in

During World War II, the Allied development of the Gee navigation system

All of the following were Allied advances in intelligence-gathering in World War II EXCEPT the

During World War II, the Fair Employment Practices Commission was created

During World War II, the U.S. military

During World War II, American Indians

In 1942, the United States and Mexico agreed to the braceros program, which

The 1943 "zoot-suit riots" in Los Angeles

In 1942, when the United States interned Japanese Americans in "relocation centers,"

All of the following statements regarding the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II are true EXCEPT that

During World War II, Chinese Americans

During World War II, American women who worked outside the home

During World War II, in the United States, all of the following social indicators experienced a rise in their rate of occurrence EXCEPT

During World War II, American shoppers

Most employed women during the war worked in

During World War II, the United States military services

During World War II, Congress abolished the

A significant issue in the 1944 election was

In the 1944 elections,

All of the following statements regarding the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 are true EXCEPT that

In August 1944, the Allies liberated from German occupation the city of

In February 1945, an Allied bombing attack on Dresden, Germany

The Battle of the Bulge

In April 1945, American and British forces halted their advance on Germany at the Elbe River

In February 1944, American naval forces won a series of victories in the Marshall Islands, under the command of

The 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf

The costliest battle in the history of the United States Marines Corps was the Battle of

In mid-1945, evidence of Japan's desperation to continue the war included

In 1939, the first steps toward the creation of an atomic bomb were taken by

All of the following statements regarding the Allied development of an atomic bomb during World War II are true EXCEPT that

The first atomic explosion in history took place in 1945 in

Prior to ordering the use of an atomic bomb against Japan, President Harry Truman

The United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945 after

The Japanese surrender to the United States

Which of the following is true of casualties in World War II?

Despite the power of prewar isolationism, there was a large degree of unity once the United States was involved in World War II.

In June 1942, the United States gained control of the central Pacific with the Battle of Midway.

Britain and the Soviet Union were not in agreement on where to strike at the Nazis.

The Soviet Union favored the Allied African campaign as a way to divert German resources from the eastern front.

The Allied invasion of Sicily led to the collapse of the Mussolini government.

The U.S. government consistently resisted calls to make an Allied effort to save Jews caught in the Holocaust.

The federal government's budget in 1945 had increased more than ten-fold from 1939.

During World War II, around 6 million Americans joined the armed forces.

World War II gave a great boost to union membership, even though the government extracted "no-strike" pledges from unions for the duration of the war.

Congress enacted a system of automatic tax withholding through payroll deductions as a wartime measure.

By the end of 1942, Allied technology had caught up with that of Germany and Japan.

The Allied introduction of an "acoustic" mine was a major advance in naval warfare.

Germany's rocket-propelled bombs caused more psychological harm than actual damage in England.

American intelligence broke the Japanese coding system prior to Pearl Harbor.

African Americans' strategy for social and economic improvement during World War II was to gain favor with the Roosevelt administration rather than make demands of it.

At the start of World War II, black leaders carried out a massive march on Washington to call attention to racial discrimination.

Native American languages were useful in American military communications.

The braceros program allowed Mexicans to enter the United States and become citizens if they agreed to work in war plants for the duration of the war.

The repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts in 1943 resulted in a flood of Chinese immigrants into the United States.

Many employers used domestic analogies to recruit women for industrial labor.

Working mothers during World War II usually relied on private child-care facilities.

The war effort led military leaders to largely ignore the presence of homosexual men and women serving in the ranks.

The 1944 presidential campaign revolved primarily around domestic, rather than foreign, policy issues.

During the 1944 presidential campaign, Franklin Roosevelt was gravely ill.

Congress abolished both the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Association during World War II.

Near the end of World War II, American, British, and Russian troops battled Nazi troops in the streets of Berlin.

Harry Truman did not know of the existence of the Manhattan Project at the time that he became president.

The United States was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on Germany when it surrendered.

The dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was followed by the firebombing of Tokyo.

When President Truman ordered the use of the atomic bomb he believed he was making a simple military decision.