HIST 1302 Week 5 Quiz

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Question 1

Which of the following statements best describes Japan’s overseas actions in the 1930s?

·        Japan invaded China in 1931 and 1937 to expand its military and economic power.

·        Japan failed in its attempt to annex China.

·        Japan requested an emergency session of the League of Nations to discuss treaty options with the United States.

·        Domestic power struggles kept Japan out of international affairs until 1941.

·        Japanese diplomats seeking a peaceful solution in a territorial dispute with China were killed in Nanking.

Question 2

The Fair Employment Practices Commission:                            

·        was the first federal agency since Reconstruction to advocate equal opportunity for blacks.

·        applied only to Mexican immigrants working in war production.

·        was criticized by the black press.

·        was administered by A. Philip Randolph.

·        fined those employers who discriminated against blacks.

Question 3

For most women workers, World War II:                        

·        permanently changed the way unions viewed them.

·        had little impact.

·        permanently changed the way employers viewed them.

·        did not increase employment rates, especially for married women.

·        allowed them to make temporary gains.

Question 4

What was the “final solution”?                             

·        The United States’ plan for the atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan.

·        Joseph Stalin’s plan to spread communism throughout the world.

·        The Allied operation for D-Day.

·        Japan’s plan to attack Pearl Harbor.

·        Adolf Hitler’s plan to mass-exterminate “undesirable” peoples.

Question 5

According to Gunnar Myrdal, America’s dilemma was a conflict between:                         

·        American liberalism and American conservatism.

·        American business ethos and American labor unions.

·        American values and American racial policies.

·        America’s rhetoric at home and its foreign policy abroad.

·        America’s isolationism and Germany’s aggression.

Question 6

Which of the following statements is FALSE?                           

·        When World War II began, the air force and marines had no black members.

·        Many black soldiers were assigned to non-combatant tasks, such as construction and transport.

·        Over 1 million blacks served in the armed forces during World War II, many in the first desegregated units in modern military history.

·        Black soldiers sometimes had to give up their railroad cars seats to accommodate Nazi prisoners of war.

·        Officially, the GI Bill offered the same benefits to returning black soldiers as it did to whites.

Question 7

In the United States during World War II:                                   

·        the economy grew only slightly.

·        the actual size of the federal government shrank as the New Deal ended.

·        little was done to regulate the economy.

·        unemployment declined, production soared, and income taxes increased.

·        income taxes increased only for the wealthy.

Question 8

How did the promise of freedom in the postwar years differ for black and white Americans?                             

·        African-Americans considered freedom the ability to travel overseas, while white Americans equaled freedom with home ownership.

·        African-Americans wanted churches to rein in individual freedom, while white Americans embraced consumer individualism.

·        For white Americans, freedom was a position to be defended; for African-Americans, it was a goal to be achieved.

·        White Americans thought of freedom exclusively in terms of property rights; African-Americans thought of it exclusively in terms of civil rights.

·        African-Americans wanted a return to the New Deal; white Americans wanted the unregulated free market.

Question 9

By 1945, support for racial justice had finally taken its place on the liberal-left agenda alongside full employment, civil liberties, and the expansion of the New Deal welfare state.                               

·        True

·        False

Question 10

Fascism:                                

·        was a political movement similar to Nazism.

·        became the political system in Spain by the late 1930s.

·        attracted widespread popularity in Sweden and Switzerland as an alternative to Nazism.

·        was initially embraced by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who viewed it more favorably than capitalism.

·        A and B

Question 11

What taste of freedom did women enjoy in World War II?                              

·        A life beyond the control of men.

·        The thrills and excitement of military service.

·        New job benefits, such as paid vacation and retirement packages.

·        The blessing of long-term job security.

·        The perks of doing men’s jobs.

Question 12

How did wartime experiences change Mexican-American life in California?                                 

·        Tremendous wage increases prompted young Mexican workers to spend carelessly on frivolous outfits.

·        Employment opportunities in the defense sector prompted Mexican-Americans to find work outside of their neighborhoods.

·        Service in segregated army units motivated Mexican-American activists to join ranks with African-American civil rights groups.

·        Employment opportunities in the defense sector attracted Mexican farmworkers to the cities, where they built exclusive barrio neighborhoods.

·        The war increased the need for farmworkers, prompting Mexican-Americans to leave urban neighborhoods for rural regions instead.

Question 13

Which statement about the Japanese-American internment is FALSE?                                

·        The Supreme Court refused to intervene.

·        Once their loyalty was proven, they were free to leave.

·        Japan used it as proof that America was racist toward non-white people.

·        Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were exempt from the policy.

·        The press supported the policy of internment almost unanimously.

Question 14

What did Henry Luce and Henry Wallace have in common?                          

·        They were both liberals in their political beliefs and strongly supported the New Deal, which they believed should be spread to the rest of the world.

·        They both believed that the best course of action for the United States after the war was fiscal conservative policies, including high tariffs and domestic taxes.

·        They were both working for the Office of War Information in promoting, through books, the positions held by the group America First.

·        They both believed that the United States should assume an isolationist policy, leading by example, not by action.

·        They both put forth a new conception of America’s role in the world based in part on internationalism and on the idea that the American experience should serve as a model for all other nations.

Question 15

Women working in defense industries during the war:                        

·        had little impact on the war effort.

·        were all young, single women who left their jobs once they got married.

·        made up one-third of the West Coast workers in aircraft manufacturing and shipbuilding.

·        were viewed as permanent workers after the war, so long as they did a good job.

·        were small in number, as most women took clerical work or joined the military service as nurses.

Question 16

During World War II, the Border Patrol deported about as many Mexicans as had crossed over under the bracero program.                             

·        True

·        False

Question 17

In 1940, the “cash and carry” plan:                                 

·        was voted down by Congress.

·        allowed Japan to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.

·        allowed Great Britain to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.

·        allowed all belligerents to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.

·        allowed Germany to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.

Question 18

During the war, for the first time in American history, married women outnumbered single women in the labor force.                           

·        True

·        False

Question 19

When war broke out in Europe in 1939, the Soviet Union stood virtually alone in fighting Germany.                           

·        True   

·        False

Question 20

The dropping of the atomic bombs to end World War II was the logical culmination of a war that was unprecedented in the targeting of civilian populations in the fighting.                                 

·        True

·        False