Deck 22: Fighting for the Four Freedoms: World War Ii, 1941 -1945

Question 1

MATCHING
Adolf Hitler

A)Spanish Civil War
B)The American Century
C)An American Dilemma
D)ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E)One World
F)What the Negro Wants
G)The Road to Serfdom
H)Britain's prime minister
I)German leader
J)American painter
K)Soviet leader
L)Executive Order 8802

Answer 1

German leader

Question 2

MATCHING
GI Bill

A)interventionists
B)opposed to colonialism
C)Big Three meeting
D)blamed businesspeople for World War I involvement
E)Mexican agricultural workers
F)civil rights case
G)Mexican-American youths
H)United Nations
I)mobilized American public opinion
J)Navajos
K)education for veterans
L)Latin America

Answer 2

education for veterans

Question 3

MATCHING
A. Philip Randolph

A)Spanish Civil War
B)The American Century
C)An American Dilemma
D)ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E)One World
F)What the Negro Wants
G)The Road to Serfdom
H)Britain's prime minister
I)German leader
J)American painter
K)Soviet leader
L)Executive Order 8802

Answer 3

Executive Order 8802

Question 4

MATCHING
Henry Luce

A)Spanish Civil War
B)The American Century
C)An American Dilemma
D)ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E)One World
F)What the Negro Wants
G)The Road to Serfdom
H)Britain's prime minister
I)German leader
J)American painter
K)Soviet leader
L)Executive Order 8802

Question 5

MATCHING
Norman Rockwell

A)Spanish Civil War
B)The American Century
C)An American Dilemma
D)ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E)One World
F)What the Negro Wants
G)The Road to Serfdom
H)Britain's prime minister
I)German leader
J)American painter
K)Soviet leader
L)Executive Order 8802

Question 6

MATCHING
Francisco Franco

A)Spanish Civil War
B)The American Century
C)An American Dilemma
D)ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E)One World
F)What the Negro Wants
G)The Road to Serfdom
H)Britain's prime minister
I)German leader
J)American painter
K)Soviet leader
L)Executive Order 8802

Question 7

MATCHING
Freedom House

A)interventionists
B)opposed to colonialism
C)Big Three meeting
D)blamed businesspeople for World War I involvement
E)Mexican agricultural workers
F)civil rights case
G)Mexican-American youths
H)United Nations
I)mobilized American public opinion
J)Navajos
K)education for veterans
L)Latin America

Question 8

MATCHING
Charles H. Wesley

A)Spanish Civil War
B)The American Century
C)An American Dilemma
D)ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E)One World
F)What the Negro Wants
G)The Road to Serfdom
H)Britain's prime minister
I)German leader
J)American painter
K)Soviet leader
L)Executive Order 8802

Question 9

MATCHING
Good Neighbor Policy

A)interventionists
B)opposed to colonialism
C)Big Three meeting
D)blamed businesspeople for World War I involvement
E)Mexican agricultural workers
F)civil rights case
G)Mexican-American youths
H)United Nations
I)mobilized American public opinion
J)Navajos
K)education for veterans
L)Latin America

Question 10

MATCHING
Gunnar Myrdal

A)Spanish Civil War
B)The American Century
C)An American Dilemma
D)ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E)One World
F)What the Negro Wants
G)The Road to Serfdom
H)Britain's prime minister
I)German leader
J)American painter
K)Soviet leader
L)Executive Order 8802

Question 11

MATCHING
Harry Truman

A)Spanish Civil War
B)The American Century
C)An American Dilemma
D)ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E)One World
F)What the Negro Wants
G)The Road to Serfdom
H)Britain's prime minister
I)German leader
J)American painter
K)Soviet leader
L)Executive Order 8802

Question 12

MATCHING
Wendell Willkie

A)Spanish Civil War
B)The American Century
C)An American Dilemma
D)ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E)One World
F)What the Negro Wants
G)The Road to Serfdom
H)Britain's prime minister
I)German leader
J)American painter
K)Soviet leader
L)Executive Order 8802

Question 13

MATCHING
"code talkers"

A)interventionists
B)opposed to colonialism
C)Big Three meeting
D)blamed businesspeople for World War I involvement
E)Mexican agricultural workers
F)civil rights case
G)Mexican-American youths
H)United Nations
I)mobilized American public opinion
J)Navajos
K)education for veterans
L)Latin America

Question 14

MATCHING
Yalta Conference

A)interventionists
B)opposed to colonialism
C)Big Three meeting
D)blamed businesspeople for World War I involvement
E)Mexican agricultural workers
F)civil rights case
G)Mexican-American youths
H)United Nations
I)mobilized American public opinion
J)Navajos
K)education for veterans
L)Latin America

Question 15

MATCHING
Dumbarton Oaks

A)interventionists
B)opposed to colonialism
C)Big Three meeting
D)blamed businesspeople for World War I involvement
E)Mexican agricultural workers
F)civil rights case
G)Mexican-American youths
H)United Nations
I)mobilized American public opinion
J)Navajos
K)education for veterans
L)Latin America

Question 16

MATCHING
Office of War Information

A)interventionists
B)opposed to colonialism
C)Big Three meeting
D)blamed businesspeople for World War I involvement
E)Mexican agricultural workers
F)civil rights case
G)Mexican-American youths
H)United Nations
I)mobilized American public opinion
J)Navajos
K)education for veterans
L)Latin America

Question 17

MATCHING
Joseph Stalin

A)Spanish Civil War
B)The American Century
C)An American Dilemma
D)ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E)One World
F)What the Negro Wants
G)The Road to Serfdom
H)Britain's prime minister
I)German leader
J)American painter
K)Soviet leader
L)Executive Order 8802

Question 18

MATCHING
black internationalism

A)interventionists
B)opposed to colonialism
C)Big Three meeting
D)blamed businesspeople for World War I involvement
E)Mexican agricultural workers
F)civil rights case
G)Mexican-American youths
H)United Nations
I)mobilized American public opinion
J)Navajos
K)education for veterans
L)Latin America

Question 19

MATCHING
Winston Churchill

A)Spanish Civil War
B)The American Century
C)An American Dilemma
D)ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E)One World
F)What the Negro Wants
G)The Road to Serfdom
H)Britain's prime minister
I)German leader
J)American painter
K)Soviet leader
L)Executive Order 8802

Question 20

MATCHING
Friedrich Hayek

A)Spanish Civil War
B)The American Century
C)An American Dilemma
D)ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E)One World
F)What the Negro Wants
G)The Road to Serfdom
H)Britain's prime minister
I)German leader
J)American painter
K)Soviet leader
L)Executive Order 8802

Question 21

MATCHING
bracero program

A)interventionists
B)opposed to colonialism
C)Big Three meeting
D)blamed businesspeople for World War I involvement
E)Mexican agricultural workers
F)civil rights case
G)Mexican-American youths
H)United Nations
I)mobilized American public opinion
J)Navajos
K)education for veterans
L)Latin America

Question 22

The Four Freedoms:

A) was a campaign slogan of the Republicans.
B) were the war aims of Nazi Germany.
C) were President Roosevelt's statement of the Allied war aims.
D) included the freedom to join the Communist Party.
E) did not apply to Jehovah's Witnesses.

Question 23

The Good Neighbor Policy was directed at:

A) Canada.
B) Mexico.
C) Great Britain.
D) the Soviet Union.
E) Latin America.

Question 24

Freedom House was an organization that:

A) demanded American intervention in the European war.
B) Jewish refugees could flee to from Europe.
C) believed the European war was not an American concern.
D) raised funds for Japanese-Americans to use for legal fees to bring court cases against the United States for unlawful imprisonment.
E) was located in Chicago and acted as a networking resource for blacks moving there from the South.

Question 25

France and Britain's policy toward Germany of giving concessions in hopes of avoiding war was called:

A) isolationism.
B) détente.
C) internationalism.
D) appeasement.
E) provocation.

Question 26

MATCHING
Smith v. Allwright

A)interventionists
B)opposed to colonialism
C)Big Three meeting
D)blamed businesspeople for World War I involvement
E)Mexican agricultural workers
F)civil rights case
G)Mexican-American youths
H)United Nations
I)mobilized American public opinion
J)Navajos
K)education for veterans
L)Latin America

Question 27

The Lend-Lease Act:

A) authorized military aid to Germany and Japan.
B) authorized military aid to those fighting against Germany and Japan.
C) excluded China.
D) excluded the Soviet Union.
E) maintained trade relations with Japan.

Question 28

After a bitter civil war, Francisco Franco established in 1939 a fascist government in:

A) Italy.
B) Spain.
C) Bulgaria.
D) France.
E) Germany.

Question 29

December 7, 1941, is known as a "date that will live in infamy," referring to:

A) the German invasion of Poland.
B) the Japanese assault on Indochina.
C) the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
D) the German declaration of war against the United States.
E) Jeannette Rankin's vote against a declaration of war.

Question 30

During the 1930s, the Good Neighbor Policy:

A) included the renewal of the Platt Amendment.
B) maintained the right of American military intervention in Latin America.
C) was a foreign policy based on the recognition of the autonomy of Latin American countries, including those that were ruled by dictatorships.
D) was a foreign policy that recognized the autonomy of Latin American countries but assisted in democratic revolutions.
E) included a continued U.S. military presence in Haiti and Nicaragua.

Question 31

Men like Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Father Coughlin were members of the

A) America Now! committee, an interventionist group.
B) Anti-Semitism Society, a group that blamed the Jews for the war.
C) America First committee, an isolationist group.
D) Lend-Lease League, a group that supported technology for the war.
E) Free Paris Society, a group that advocated the liberation of Paris.

Question 32

In 1940, the "cash and carry" plan:

A) allowed Great Britain to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.
B) allowed Germany to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.
C) allowed Japan to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.
D) allowed all belligerents to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.
E) was voted down by Congress.

Question 33

Many Americans were convinced by _________that a policy of isolationism was necessary.

A) the Atlantic Charter
B) Senator Gerald Nye's report
C) FDR's Four Freedoms speech
D) the Battle of Britain
E) the attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 34

Who is considered the founder of fascism?

A) Benito Mussolini
B) Adolf Hitler
C) Francisco Franco
D) Joseph Stalin
E) Hideki Tojo

Question 35

In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt:

A) decided not to run for a third term.
B) faced a serious challenge from the Republican candidate Wendell Willkie.
C) waited until after his reelection to pass the nation's first peacetime draft law.
D) won an unprecedented third term as president.
E) won in a very close election after a contentious campaign.

Question 36

MATCHING
"zoot suit" riots

A)interventionists
B)opposed to colonialism
C)Big Three meeting
D)blamed businesspeople for World War I involvement
E)Mexican agricultural workers
F)civil rights case
G)Mexican-American youths
H)United Nations
I)mobilized American public opinion
J)Navajos
K)education for veterans
L)Latin America

Question 37

The Four Freedoms Show toured the country to persuade Americans to:

A) vote for Franklin Roosevelt's third term in 1940.
B) enter the European war.
C) buy war bonds.
D) remain isolated from European conflicts.
E) support the Good Neighbor Policy.

Question 38

MATCHING
Nye Committee

A)interventionists
B)opposed to colonialism
C)Big Three meeting
D)blamed businesspeople for World War I involvement
E)Mexican agricultural workers
F)civil rights case
G)Mexican-American youths
H)United Nations
I)mobilized American public opinion
J)Navajos
K)education for veterans
L)Latin America

Question 39

FDR's Four Freedoms include all of the following EXCEPT:

A) freedom from want.
B) freedom of speech.
C) freedom from fear.
D) freedom of enterprise.
E) freedom of religion.

Question 40

As fascism rose in Europe and Asia during the 1930s, most Americans:

A) supported U.S. intervention.
B) supported U.S. neutrality.
C) wanted to move beyond isolationism.
D) remained ambivalent.
E) favored an end to international trade.

Question 41

"Rosie the Riveter":

A) refers to a movie star during World War II.
B) was a term applied only to black women workers.
C) described only single women workers.
D) refers to Norman Rockwell's image of a female industrial laborer.
E) refers to a type of industrial machinery.

Question 42

The Holocaust:

A) was the spread of contagious disease in Asia.
B) was the mass extermination of millions of Jews and others in Nazi death camps.
C) included the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan.
D) is the equivalent of D-Day.
E) was the mass slaughter of the Chinese during the Japanese invasion.

Question 43

Which work offered an intellectual justification for opponents of active government, laying the foundation for the rise of modern conservatism?

A) Henry Luce's The American Century
B) Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
C) Wendell Willkie's One World
D) Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma
E) Ruth Benedict's Races and Racism

Question 44

What did Henry Luce and Henry Wallace have in common?

A) They both believed that the United States should assume an isolationist policy, leading by example, not by action.
B) 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.
C) 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.
D) 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.
E) They were both working for the Office of War Information in promoting, through books, the positions held by the group America First.

Question 45

The Economic Bill of Rights was:

A) passed by Congress at the urging of the president.
B) intended to give African-Americans full economic rights.
C) not passed by Congress.
D) suggested by Harry Truman.
E) intended to give women full economic rights.

Question 46

During the war, Americans:

A) experienced the rationing of scarce consumer goods such as gasoline.
B) found fewer consumer goods available by 1944.
C) still suffered from high unemployment.
D) were told that the end of war might bring a return of the Great Depression.
E) experienced extreme deprivation

Question 47

The National Resources Planning Board:

A) urged the curtailment of Social Security.
B) urged the expansion of the welfare state.
C) urged the discontinuation of Keynesian spending in peacetime.
D) urged less government spending in general.
E) had the full support of Congress.

Question 48

The GI Bill of Rights:

A) was very limited in scope.
B) included scholarships for education and low-cost mortgage loans for veterans.
C) extended benefits to very few veterans.
D) did not include job training.
E) had limited impact on postwar society.

Question 49

"D-Day" refers to the:

A) Allied invasion of the Soviet Union.
B) Allied invasion of Japan.
C) Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
D) dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan.
E) Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy.

Question 50

Which area of the United States witnessed the greatest growth during the war?

A) Northeast
B) Midwest
C) Southwest
D) West Coast
E) Southeast

Question 51

Organized labor assisted in the war effort by:

A) decreasing union membership.
B) agreeing to a no-strike pledge.
C) accepting wage cuts.
D) asking Congress to abolish Social Security.
E) joining the army.

Question 52

In the United States during World War II:

A) unemployment declined, production soared, and income taxes increased.
B) the economy grew only slightly.
C) income taxes increased only for the wealthy.
D) little was done to regulate the economy.
E) the actual size of the federal government shrank as the New Deal ended.

Question 53

For most women workers, World War II:

A) had little impact.
B) permanently changed the way employers viewed them.
C) allowed them to make temporary gains.
D) permanently changed the way unions viewed them.
E) did not increase employment rates, especially for married women.

Question 54

The Office of War Information:

A) imprisoned isolationists.
B) cast the War's sole goal as retaliation against the Japanese.
C) attempted to stir up nationalist hysteria.
D) was a New Deal social program.
E) used radio, film, and press to give the war an ideological meaning.

Question 55

Women working in defense industries during the war:

A) were viewed as permanent workers after the war, so long as they did a good job.
B) were told by advertisers that they were fighting for freedom.
C) had little impact on the war effort.
D) were small in number, as most women took clerical work or joined the military service as nurses.
E) were all young, single women who left their jobs once they got married.

Question 56

What was the "final solution"?

A) the Allied operation for D-Day
B) Adolf Hitler's plan to mass-exterminate "undesirable" peoples
C) the United States' plan for the atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan
D) Japan's plan to attack Pearl Harbor
E) Joseph Stalin's plan to spread communism throughout the world

Question 57

Henry Luce's The American Century:

A) hailed the "century of the common man."
B) hailed "free economic enterprise."
C) described the advances made by African-Americans.
D) described the advances made by women.
E) urged Americans to return to a state of isolationism.

Question 58

The program that began in 1942 that allowed experienced Mexican agricultural workers to cross the border to work under government labor contracts was called the:

A) bracero program.
B) Chicano program.
C) migrant-worker program.
D) "zoot suit" program.
E) pueblo program.

Question 59

What does Henry Luce see as the cure for America in his book The American Century?

A) for America to exert its influence on the world
B) deficit spending to end the Depression
C) creating a welfare state to fully embrace liberalism
D) entering World War II to aid Great Britain
E) return to a strict policy of isolationism

Question 60

After the United States entered World War II:

A) Americans saw little military action for the first few months of 1942.
B) Americans immediately won several key battles.
C) it maintained control of the Philippines.
D) Americans experienced a series of military losses.
E) no Americans were taken prisoner by the Japanese.

Question 61

In Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court:

A) deemed Japanese internment unconstitutional.
B) upheld the legality of Japanese internment.
C) deemed loyalty oaths constitutional.
D) barred Japanese-Americans from serving in the U.S. military.
E) apologized for Japanese internment.

Question 62

Under the bracero program:

A) Mexican immigrants were denied entry to the United States.
B) Mexican immigrants were eligible for citizenship.
C) Mexicans were encouraged to immigrate, but they were denied the right of citizenship.
D) Indians were encouraged to leave their reservations.
E) marriages between Mexicans and Americans were banned.

Question 63

The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki:

A) had little impact on the course of the war.
B) did little damage and caused few casualties.
C) brought the war to an end but remains controversial.
D) brought the war to an end and caused no controversy.
E) was vetoed by President Truman.

Question 64

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

A) America's rhetoric at home and its foreign policy abroad.
B) American values and American racial policies.
C) American business ethos and American labor unions.
D) America's isolationism and Germany's aggression.
E) American liberalism and American conservatism.

Question 65

The "zoot suit" riots of 1943:

A) were a series of fashion shows in Hollywood.
B) involved Mexican immigrants fighting with blacks in Los Angeles.
C) involved autoworkers in Detroit.
D) highlighted the limits of racial tolerance during World War II.
E) highlighted the growing acceptance of Mexicans in southern California.

Question 66

Government propaganda and war films portrayed the Japanese as:

A) blameless victims of their own government.
B) similar to the Germans and Italians.
C) bestial and subhuman.
D) freedom fighters.
E) communists.

Question 67

Executive Order 9066:

A) was overturned by the Supreme Court.
B) authorized the internment of German-Americans.
C) authorized the internment of Italian-Americans.
D) authorized the internment of Japanese-Americans.
E) exempted all those who were technically American citizens.

Question 68

Which statement about the Japanese-American internment is FALSE?

A) The press supported the policy of internment almost unanimously.
B) The Supreme Court refused to intervene.
C) Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were exempt from the policy.
D) Japan used it as proof that America was racist toward nonwhite people.
E) Once the FBI did background checks on individuals, they were free to leave the camps and return home.

Question 69

During World War II, African-Americans:

A) experienced full equality before the law.
B) witnessed the end of Jim Crow laws.
C) served in integrated units in the armed forces.
D) received equal access to the GI Bill of Rights benefits.
E) witnessed the birth of the modern civil rights movement.

Question 70

Which group issued its own declaration of war against the Axis powers?

A) the Iroquois
B) the Navajo
C) the Creek
D) the Lakota
E) the Apache

Question 71

World War II:

A) led to Japan emerging as a regional power.
B) led to Germany emerging as a regional power.
C) led to a strengthened and victorious France.
D) produced a radical redistribution of world power.
E) led to the Soviet Union emerging as the dominant world power.

Question 72

The 1944 conference at Dumbarton Oaks established the:

A) World Bank.
B) International Monetary Fund.
C) League of Nations.
D) United Nations.
E) right of independence for India.

Question 73

The 1943 Texas Caucasian Race-Equal Privileges resolution:

A) specified that Japanese-Americans interned in that state were not allowed to use the same public accommodations as whites.
B) allowed Mexicans equal treatment in public accommodations, while still segregating blacks.
C) stated that German POWs being held in the state could be allowed to enjoy the same public accommodations as whites.
D) segregated blacks and Mexicans from all public accommodations.
E) granted equal privileges to all Texans, regardless of race.

Question 74

The Atlantic Charter:

A) was made between Stalin and Hitler.
B) outlawed submarine warfare.
C) endorsed the freedoms from want and fear.
D) established the World Bank and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
E) established the United Nations.

Question 75

The double-V campaign was:

A) the Allied war efforts in Europe and Asia.
B) the effort to end discrimination against Mexican immigrants and blacks.
C) women's struggle for acceptance as industrial workers and mothers.
D) the effort to end discrimination against blacks while fighting fascism.
E) not supported by the NAACP.

Question 76

During World War II, American Indians:

A) served in the military and worked in war production.
B) prospered, especially those on reservations.
C) were eligible for GI Bill benefits only if living on a reservation.
D) became more isolated within American society.
E) collaborated with the Japanese.

Question 77

At Yalta the Big Three met for a summit. It was here that they finally agreed:

A) that the Soviet Union would enter the Pacific war.
B) on the plans for a United Nations.
C) to use atomic weapons to end the war.
D) that Churchill would give up the British colonial possessions.
E) to place top Nazi leaders on trial for war crimes.

Question 78

At the Yalta conference in 1945:

A) wartime American-Soviet cooperation was at its peak.
B) Stalin was denied permission to maintain control of the Baltic states.
C) Churchill agreed to end British colonial control of India.
D) Stalin agreed to enter the war against the Japanese immediately.
E) no plans were made regarding Poland.

Question 79

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

Question 80

The Good Neighbor Policy was extended primarily toward Canada to lend support in her efforts to aide Britain against German aggression.