Question

1. By the end of the World War II

a. had become a debtor nation.

b. collapsed once again into economic depression.

c. the United States had the largest economy in the world.

d. developed a policy of strict isolation

2. Which of the following marks the official beginning of World War II?

a. the sinking of the Lusitania.

b. Hitler's bombing of London.

c. None of these are true.

d. Germany's invasion of Poland.

e. The German invasion of the Soviet Union.

3. Once the United States entered WWII

a. carefully protected the civil rights of Japanese living in the United States.

b. the government forced German, Italian and Japanese immigrants to return home.

c. Japan launched an attack on the California coast.

d. None of these are true.

e. the government forced Japanese Americans into "internment camps."

4. For ethnic minorities such as Mexican-Americans, World War II

a. had virtually no impact on their well being.

b. ended all form of discrimination.

c. allowed them to express themselves through new fashion styles.

d. brought increased economic opporuniy and patriotic pride.

5. Following WWII, most women

a. were expected to return to their traditional roles in the home.

b. attend university and or acquire new employment skills.

c. were able to maintain the jobs they had worked at during the war.

d. found that they were treated with a new level of respect.

6. After his reelection in 1940, F.D.R.'s response to the developments in Europe was to:

a. give planes and submarines to the Germans.

b. develop a carefully planned strategy to deal with the problems of war in Europe.

c. aid Germany as much as possible without involving the United States in the war.

d. support the Lend-Lease Act in order to aid the British war effort.

e. maintain strict neutrality.

7. Japan's master plan for the Far East:

a. Group of answer choices

b. was designed to accommodate American interests in the region.

c. called for the right to self-determination for all Asians.

d. brought them eventually into confrontation with the United States.

e. was to divide it into four colonies.

f. had little effect on East-West relations.

8. It might be said that the Cold War was declared in early 1946 when ________ announced that "from Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the [European] continent."

a. Winston Churchill

b. Harry S. Truman

c. Joseph Goebbels

d. Franklin D. Roosevelt

9. The Truman Doctrine

a. was a specific policy addressed to a specific set of circumstances.

b. was later described by Churchill as "the most unsordid act in history."

c. reversed America's traditional policy of extending diplomatic recognition to de facto governments.

d. formed the framework for a universal postwar American foreign policy.

10. The Korean War was a "limited war" in that

a. President Truman pledged support for South Korea without consulting Congress.

b. the United States was the only United Nations country to send troops to help South Korea.

c. the war was incompatible with America's professed containment policy.

d. the original objective of the war was to push the North Koreans back to where the attack on South Korea had originally begun.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The correct answer is c. the United States had the largest economy in the world.

2. The correct answer is d. Germany's invasion of Poland.

3. The correct answer is e. the government forced Japanese Americans into "internment camps."​​​​​​​

4. The correct answer is d. brought increased economic opportunity and patriotic pride.

5. The correct answer is c. were able to maintain the jobs they had worked at during the war.​​​​​​​

6. The correct answer is D. support the Lend-Lease Act in order to aid the British war effort.

7. The correct answer is D. brought them eventually into a confrontation with the United States.

8. The correct answer is A. Winston Churchill

9. The correct answer is D. formed the framework for a universal postwar American foreign policy.

10. The correct answer is D. the original objective of the war was to push the North Koreans back to where the attack on South Korea had originally begun.