Exam 26: America During the Second World War, 1939-1945

Britain and France declared war on Germany when

The "General ______________________________" was established after World War II to implement free trade agreements.

In 1936 Germany violated the 1919 Treaty of Versailles by militarizing the Rhineland.

The ____________________ Project was the center of the atomic bomb production during the war.

All of the following demonstrated the preeminence of the military in the Washington power structure in the 1940s except the

World War II concentrated power in the largest corporations.

The America First Committee

The Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of August 1939 divided ____________________ between the two signatories.

The Republican presidential candidate who ran against Roosevelt in 1944 was ____________________.

Describe the situation of American Indians during World War II.

The government called on ____________________ to make a series of films called Why We Fight.

Only Japanese Americans were subject to internment.

Because the United States remained officially uninvolved, the Spanish Civil War did not affect the political debate over U.S. foreign policy.

Although World War II began in 1939, the United States did not become officially involved until 1941. Discuss the position of the United States at the beginning of World War II and the events that gradually drew the United States into the conflict.

 Zoot suits were flamboyant fashions worn by women.

Democrats and Republicans supported the work of the Office of War Information.

By V-J Day, government spending had reached ____________________ billion.

During World War II, U.S. refugee policy

In China, the United States supported Jiang Jieshi instead of Mao Zedong because

Japan suffered its first naval defeat at the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942.