Review Questions
- The United States Senator who led the noninterventionists in Congress and called for neutrality legislation in the 1930s was ________.
- Gerald P. Nye
- Robert Wagner
- George C. Marshall
- Neville Chamberlain
- Describe Franklin Roosevelt’s efforts on behalf of German Jews in the 1930s. How was he able to help, and in what ways did his actions come up short?
- During World War II, unionized workers agreed ________.
- to work without pay
- to go without vacations or days off
- to live near the factories to save time commuting
- to keep production going by not striking
- The program to recruit Mexican agricultural workers during World War II was the ________.
- bracero program
- maquiladora program
- brazzos program
- campesino program
- What were American women’s contributions to the war effort?
- Which of the following demands did the Soviet Union make of Britain and the United States?
- the right to try all Nazi war criminals in the Soviet Union
- the invasion of North Africa to help the Soviet Union’s ally Iraq
- the invasion of western Europe to draw German forces away from the Soviet Union
- the right to place Communist Party leaders in charge of the German government
- What did Roosevelt mean to achieve with his demand for Germany and Japan’s unconditional surrender?
- What were the phases of the Holocaust?
- Which of the following islands had to be captured in order to provide a staging area for U.S. bombing raids against Japan?
- Sakhalin
- Iwo Jima
- Molokai
- Reunion
- What purpose did the Allied strategy of island hopping serve?
- Why might President Truman have made the decision to drop the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki?
