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were not issuing a mandate for American involvement in the European war

By electing President Roosevelt to an unprecedented third term in 1940, Americans

African Americans over racial prejudice at home

The Double V campaign called for both victory in the war and victory for

risked offending his southern political allies

In authorizing the Committee on Fair Employment Practices, President Roosevelt

business leaders who were paid almost nothing for their efforts

The War Production Board, which set production priorities and pushed for maximum output, was headed by

postwar self-determination for the people of Eastern Europe

In February 1945, the Big Three met at Yalta to discuss

the greed of American munitions makers, bankers, and financiers was responsible for the nation's entry into World War I

The Nye committee's 1933 report concluded that

of anti-Semitism

The United States was reluctant to accept Jewish refugees from Nazi oppression largely because

make armaments available to Britain

The Lend-Lease Act of 1941 was calculated to

announcements that they would accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of Germany and Italy

At their meeting in Morocco in January 1943, the Allied leaders Roosevelt and Churchill

citing freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear, and other ideals

In January 1941, President Roosevelt justified the proposed Lend-Lease Act by

was to win the war quickly, before the United States could mobilize its manpower and resources

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's fundamental military strategy

signaled the triumph of internationalism in the country

America's participation in organizing the United Nations

Hitler's invasion of Poland

An immediate consequence of the Nazi-Soviet treaty of nonaggression in August 1939 was

pledged to protect the freedom of the seas, free trade, and the right of national self-determination

In the Atlantic Charter, the United States and England

Congress endorsed President Roosevelt's call for a declaration of war

Just after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941,

a large number of people believed that Japanese Americans were potential sources of espionage and subversion

In 1942, President Roosevelt authorized the roundup and internment of all Americans of Japanese descent because

to prevent Japan from launching its own superbomb

All of the following were arguments for using the atomic bomb against Japan except

because Germany was working on a similar weapon

In 1942, American scientists began developing a superbomb

concrete fortification that separated much of France from Germany

The Maginot Line was a

the extermination of Jews and other "undesirables"

Hitler's final solution was

a defensive alliance among imperial powers

In the Tripartite Pact, Germany, Italy, and Japan agreed to

D Day

June 6, 1944, the date the Allies unleashed an assault against the German army on the beaches of Normandy, is known as

knock out American naval bases in the Pacific

The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was part of the Japanese plan to

16 million

The number of soldiers and sailors who served in the U.S. armed forces by the end of World War II was about

Italy, Japan, and Germany

During the 1930s, the tide of fascism, militarism, and violent nationalism that most concerned the United States rose in

how costly and difficult it would be to defeat Japan

The six-month battle to force the withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal in February 1943 demonstrated

pledged not to strike

During the war, the nation's unions

fewer casualties than its allies and foes in Europe and Asia

By the end of World War II, the United States had emerged with

replace the country's often belligerent relationship with Latin America with a more cooperative one

Roosevelt's good-neighbor policy was designed to

fought in large numbers in the armed forces

During World War II, members of ethnic minorities in America

single women

During World War II, the majority of women who entered the labor force were

Adolf Hitler killed himself in his underground bunker

April 30, 1945, was a turning point in the war. It was the day

All of the above

As a symbol, Paul Tibbets represents

Japanese soldiers forced U.S. soldiers to march sixty-five miles to a concentration camp

In the Bataan Death March in 1942,

all of the above

Women who remained at home contributed to the war effort by

against integrating the troops, claimling that the war should not serve as a "sociological laboratory"

During World War II, Secretary of War Henry Stimson argued

the Battle of the Bulge

As the Allies closed in on him in December 1944, Hitler ordered a desperate counterattack through Belgium known as

encouraged the aggression of German and Japanese militarists

The Neutrality Act of 1937

defend Okinawa and so prevent U.S. troops from getting within bombing range of their home islands

The mission of kamikaze pilots was to

that Japanese domination of the Pacific was weakening

In the late spring of 1942, naval battles in the Coral Sea and at Midway Island signaled

radar detector

The technological development that ultimately led Hitler to withdraw the infamous U-boats from the North Atlantic was the

the end of Mussolini's facism

The U.S and British landing in Sicily in July 1943 was

with private support from U.S. businessmen and tacit support from the Roosevelt administration

Dictators such as Anastasio Somoza and Fulgencio Batista terrorized their nations

of the island's proximity to Tokyo

The capture of Okinawa in 1944 was especially crucial to Allied forces because

handed Hitler his first major defeat

The Battle of Britain

free trade and foreign markets ultimately were necessary for America's domestic prosperity

As president during the 1930s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a reluctant isolationist: He believed that

widespread racial violence

Blacks who migrated to take jobs in defense industries were met with

German invasion of Poland in 1939

World War II began with the

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The number of U.S women who saw combat duty during World War II was

the strength of the conservative coalition

During World War II, the abolishment of the Works Projects Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps was clear evidence of