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Assignment  4:

Assignment 4

Name:  _______________________

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

1. _____ Despite the length and duration of World War II, total civilian and military deaths miraculously remained fewer than 1 million.

2. _____ By the end of World War II, more than 6 million women had entered the workforce.

3. _____ African American soldiers generally served in desegregated units during World War II.

4. _____ Large numbers of Americans of German, Italian, and Japanese descent were incarcerated during World War II.

5. _____ The United States and Britain adopted a Pacific First strategy during World War II in response to Japanese attacks in the Pacific.

6. _____ The strategic bombing of Europe in 1943 and 1944 completely and utterly devastated German industrial production.

7. _____ “D-day” refers to the cross-channel Allied amphibious invasion of Nazi-occupied France.

8. _____ The agreements at the Yalta Conference included Stalin’s pledge to enter the war against Japan three months after Germany’s defeat.

9. _____ Due to shrinking military production, a deep recession followed the end of World War II.

10. _____ The Servicemen's Readjustment Act was also known as the GI Bill of Rights.

11.  _____ Within a few months of the end of World War II, there were strikes and other labor disputes in many key industries.

12.  _____ In the civil war that broke out in Greece after World War II, the United States assisted the British-supported government.

13.  _____ The Fair Deal was President Truman’s name for his approach to foreign policy in the early days of the cold war.

14. _____ Truman’s firing of MacArthur in 1951 was one of the most popular actions of his presidency.

15. _____ Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of supplying U.S. secret documents to the Soviets.

16. _____ In the 1950s, the most popular new household product was the television.

17.  _____ Due to the overall prosperity of the decade, blacks were able to close the income gap with whites by the end of the 1950s.

18.  _____ Society’s message to women in the 1950s was that they should strive to combine motherhood and professional careers.

19.  _____ Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and other Beats rebelled against middle-class life and conventional literary expression.

20.  _____ The Civil Rights Act established the Civil Rights Commission and a new Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department.


EXTRA CREDIT:

A. _____ At Casablanca, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed that the terms for ending the war must include the “unconditional surrender” of all enemies.


B. _____ The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

C. _____ At the end of World War II, Korea was divided along the 38th parallel.

D. _____ In the presidential election of 1948, Republicans saw little hope for victory.

E.  _____ Many adults, having experienced the Depression and wartime rationing, were eager to consume more in the 1950s.



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