American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 26: AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR

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The American general in this photograph was placed in charge of planning the Allied invasion of German-occupied France. He is
A)George Marshall.
B)Dwight Eisenhower.
C)George Patton.
D)Douglas MacArthur.
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The Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944 is more widely-known as
A)D-Day.
B)the Battle of Midway.
C)the Battle of the Bulge.
D)the Battle of Saint-Lô.
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The Allied invasion of France took place on the beaches of
A)Dunkirk.
B)Vichy.
C)Guadalcanal.
D)Normandy.
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Allied troops watch the Gilbert Islands burn in November of 1943. The Allied commanders in charge of the Pacific forces were
A)Douglas MacArthur and Chester Nimitz.
B)Douglas MacArthur and Omar Bradley.
C)George C. Marshall and George Patton.
D)George C. Marshall and Douglas MacArthur.
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American forces gain a beachhead on another Pacific island. On which Pacific island did the Americans and Japanese engage in a struggle of terrible ferocity for six months beginning in August 1942?
A)Okinawa
B)the Philippines
C)Guadalcanal
D)Leyte Gulf
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This famous photograph, now memorialized in a statue just outside of Washington, D.C., was taken 750 miles from Tokyo, after the costliest battle in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. Where was it?
A)Marshall Islands
B)Iwo Jima
C)Okinawa
D)Midway
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Navajo Marines who used their native language to confuse possible Japanese listeners were part of what WWII program?
A)Ultra
B)Enigma
C)Code-talkers
D)Braceros
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What was Albert Einstein's relationship to the Manhattan Project?
A)He actively campaigned against it.
B)He led it.
C)He advocated starting it to counter Germany.
D)He thought it would never work.
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This photograph of the emaciated dead was taken at the Dachau Concentration Camp. Which of the following is considered by many to be a powerful symbol of American indifference to the Holocaust?
A)the Dresden firestorm
B)turning away the St. Louis
C)Nagasaki bombing
D)the Fort Dix riots
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Hiroshima smolders after the atomic bomb is dropped on August 6, 1945, killing 80,000 Japanese civilians almost instantly. What was the name of the plane that dropped this first atomic bomb on a human population?
A)the Missouri
B)Enola Gay
C)American Magic
D)Colossus II
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Which leader of the Manhattan Project, when confronted with a sight much like this one at Alamagordo, New Mexico, was moved to exclaim, "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"?
A)George Marshall
B)Enrico Fermi
C)Niels Bohr
D)J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Here is one of many women workers filling a traditionally male job during the war. By what percentage did the number of women in the work force increase during WWII?
A)20%
B)40%
C)60%
D)80%
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The woman worker in this famous World War II poster is colloquially known as
A)Rosie the Riveter.
B)Polly Production.
C)Wanda the Welder.
D)Betty Builder.
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These children help the war effort by gathering scrap metal. Young children left at home alone while women worked were often known as
A)juvenile delinquents.
B)WAACS.
C)WAVES.
D)eight-hour orphans.
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Judging by the garb of the men in this photograph, this picture was taken after the
A)Fort Dix riots.
B)"no-strike" pledge.
C)Braceros Program.
D)"Zoot-Suit Riots."
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The man in this photograph, Duke Ellington, was one of the more popular artists in a musical movement that flourished in dance clubs during the war. It was known as
A)Swing.
B)Bossa Nova.
C)Ragtime.
D)Rock 'n' Roll.
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This Japanese-American girl awaits transportation with her family"s belongings to a "relocation center" during WWII. When did Congress finally act to redress the wrongs of Japanese internment?
A)the Fifties
B)the Sixties
C)the Eighties
D)the Nineties
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