Exam 26: America During the Second World War

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

In which of the following were Japanese Americans not subject to internment?

The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 was the first peacetime draft in U.S.history.

The worldwide economic instability of the 1920s and 1930s

The most effective radio communications "code" used by the United States in the Pacific was the ____________________.

All of the following statements regarding the Holocaust are false except

The Soviet Union declared war on Japan prior to the deployment of the atomic bomb.

The US Supreme Court upheld the internment of Japanese Americans as constitutional in ____________________.

During World War II,more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were

A farm labor program that allowed Mexican workers to enter the U.S.during the war was the ____________________ program.

The new international organization created to maintain world peace was the ____________________.

In 1939 and 1940,Franklin Roosevelt tried to halt Japanese aggression in China and Indochina by

In 1939,Japan abrogated its Treaty of Commerce and Navigation with the United States.

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor,its leaders were confident that Japan could win a prolonged war against the U.S.

The congressional act that allowed the president to seize plants or mines if strikes interrupted war production was the

Gerald P.Nye,who led the Senate investigation into American entry into World War I,was a Democrat.

The government agency that oversaw the conversion of factories to wartime use was the

The International ____________________ was created in 1944 to maintain a stable system of international currency exchange.

Describe the effects the Second World War had on labor.

The organization founded during the war years devoted to nonviolent resistance to segregation was the