Speech, worship, from want, from fear
What were the Four Freedoms articulated by FDR in a 1941 speech?
Italy, Germany, Japan
During the 1930s, what countries did fascism and militarism develop in?
Have Sudetenland in return for his promise that he would seek no more territory
As a result of the Munich Conference (1938), to which Czechoslovakia was not invited, Britain and France accepted what action taken by Germany?
Britain
By 1940, all of the following countries had fallen to Germany EXCEPT
Overt aggression in Africa, Europe, Asia; nation's relationship with outside world
The "Great Debate" discussed in Ch. 23 of the textbook refers to what issue?
Neutrality Act
When Japan invaded China in 1937, FDR ignored what law to offer loans to the Chinese?
Comply with Neutrality Act and offering loans to Chinese
The most visible spokesman for the America First Committee was Charles Lindbergh. The America First Committee opposed FDRs efforts to do what?
Winston Churchill
Who was the determined war-time leader of Great Britain during WWII?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The United States entered WWII immediately after what attack?
Joined armed services
One-third of Japanese Americans _______ to demonstrate their loyalty to the US
Chiang Kai-shek
The communist movement in China during WWII was led by whom?
office of war info
To coordinate morale-boosting efforts and generate support for the war effort, FDR created the...
Rosie the Riveter
The heroic symbol of the woman war worker during WWII was...
blacks and women
FDR created the Fair Employment Practices Commission to ensure equal pay for...
their fight for complete emancipation
The "Double V" among African-Americans during WWII referred to
Native Americans
What racial group had the highest per capita enlistments during WWII?
The day in which a military operation begins
What does the D-Day in WWII refer to?
Harry S. Truman
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt died suddenly in 1945, he was succeeded by...
Australia
All of the following were conquered by WWII Japan EXCEPT which?
60 million
The estimates of world-wide deaths in WWII vary widely, but what figure does the textbook give?
United States
Which combatant country in WWII escaped physical destruction?
50%
At the end of WWII, the US possessed 6 percent of the world's population, but controlled ___ of its wealth.
Communist governments in Eastern Europe
The defeat in WWII of fascism and militarism encouraged the growth of what leftist ideologies?
Indochina
Following WWII, violent anti-colonial movements developed in all of the following EXCEPT which?
U.S.S.R, Britain, France, Chinese and United States
When the United Nations Security Council was formed, what nations were given a permanent seat in the Council?
retirement pensions
After WWII the GI Bill provided veterans with all of the following economic benefits EXCEPT which one?
return to their domestic lives
With the end of WWII, women who had held men's jobs were encouraged and pressured to do what regarding the jobs they had during the war?
Racism had changed little during the war
At the end of WWII, what was the experience of returning African American veterans regarding racism?
Baseball
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in what professional sport?
New Mexico and Arizona
In 1948, Native Americans were granted the right to vote for the first time in which states?
Outlawing segregated schools for Mexican Americans in California
What was the ruling in the Mendez v. Westminster by the U.S. Court of Appeals?
Leftist revolutions abroad amplified fears of communist influence in American Unions
According to the text, after WWII the Congress of Industrial Organization union lost some public support because many of its organizers were also followers of what political ideology?
Secondary Boycotts
What did the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 place restrictions on?
George Kennan
Who was the Father of Containment?
Winston Churchill
The influential "iron curtain" speech articulating the ideological and physical division of Europe lasting through the Cold War was given by...
Counter Soviet efforts of expansion where ever they might occur
The Truman doctrine included all of the following elements EXCEPT which?
$13 billion to fund the European economy
What did the post-WWII Marshall Plan provide for to Europe?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
After WWII, what treaty became the first US peacetime military alliance?
Philippines
Reflecting post-WWII anti-imperialism, the US granted independence to...
Israel
Though some of his administration advised against it, President Truman granted recognition to the new state of _____.
credit card
Symbolic of the new consumerism of the early post-WWII era was the introduction of what system of payment to make purchases?
suburbs
The third epoch of American residential history discussed in Ch. 24 began with the shift of the population from urban areas to ______.
California
The new demographic center of the country known as the "Sunbelt" was dominated by what state?
public action
In his presidential reelection bid in 1948, Truman made an unprecedented political stand by campaigning on a platform of support for _____ ______.
Harry Truman
The "Dixiecrats" discussed in Ch. 24 were led by what politician?
Julius Rosenberg
The early 1950s Red Scare hysteria was whipped to a frenzy by what politician?
True
True or False: The Cold War spanned from the years 1945 to 1989.
True
True or False: Hawaii and Alaska became states in 1959.
