A) U.S. corporations became friendly and close collaborators with the federal government.
B) With the loss of its overseas affiliates in Asia and Europe, U.S. corporations once again became predominantly American.
C) Technological innovation and high productivity in the war effort restored the reputation of corporations from its Depression lows.
D) The heavy reliance of the Roosevelt administration on corporate leaders for its wartime agencies left U.S. corporations with the stain of government bureaucracy.
F) All of the above
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A) ultimately led the United States to enter World War II.
B) were secondary to a direct military attack on the United States.
C) played no role in the American war effort at home or abroad.
D) diminished the support of ethnic groups in the United States for the war effort.
F) A) and C)
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A) The populations of both San Francisco and Los Angeles declined as the prospect of a Japanese invasion led many people to migrate inland.
B) The West Coast cities of Portland and Seattle received a relatively small amount of federal money for their shipyards.
C) Unlike other regions profiting from military-industrial production, growth rates in the West remained essentially flat.
D) Millions of Americans moved to California for jobs and military service.
F) None of the above
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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.
F) B) and C)
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A) In all its details, he thought it indistinguishable from National Socialism.
B) The American consumer economy, he thought, lacked the complexity that required economic planning.
C) He was convinced that even the best intentioned government planning efforts would threaten individual liberties.
D) He reasoned that economic planning during the war had almost cost the United States its victory.
F) A) and B)
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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.
F) A) and B)
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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.
F) B) and C)
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A) The defeat of Mussolini's regime forced Hitler to redirect valuable German troops to occupy Italy.
B) American soldiers had the opportunity to hone their fighting skills in the much more forgiving Mediterranean theater of war.
C) Allied forces had to secure the Mediterranean for unperturbed access to Middle Eastern oil, a necessary resource for the ground invasion.
D) By occupying Italy, Allied forces were able to channel supplies through Switzerland and France to the westward marching invaders from Normandy.
F) None of the above
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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.
F) A) and B)
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A) were viewed as permanent workers after the war, so long as they did a good job.
B) made up one-third of the West Coast workers in aircraft manufacturing and shipbuilding.
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.
F) B) and C)
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A) The Department of Defense.
B) Returning veterans.
C) Free enterprise.
D) The New Deal state.
F) None of the above
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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.
F) A) and B)
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A) was a political movement similar to Nazism.
B) became the political system in Spain by the late 1930s.
C) attracted widespread popularity in Sweden and Switzerland as an alternative to Nazism.
D) A and B
F) None of the above
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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.
F) A) and C)
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A) imprisoned isolationists.
B) cast the war's sole goal as retaliation against the Japanese.
C) attempted to stir up nationalist hysteria.
D) used radio, film, and press to give the war an ideological meaning.
F) A) and D)
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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.
F) C) and D)
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A) They all were in control of nuclear bombs.
B) They were all part of the allies that won World War II.
C) They were the wealthiest nations at the time.
D) They all had suffered the least casualties and financial losses during the war.
F) None of the above
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A) It referred to his support of the Lend-Lease Act, which would equip Great Britain with war matériel.
B) Initially, it was a call to eliminate barriers to international trade.
C) It suggested the Great Depression would not continue after the war.
D) B and C
F) A) and B)
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A) included some provisions for veteran support, but did not have the funding to become law.
B) would have empowered the federal government to secure education, housing, medical care, and full employment for all Americans.
C) was modified to appease conservatives and pushed through Congress by Harry Truman.
D) A and C
F) None of the above
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