On December 7, 1941 Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, inflicting heavy casualties and severe damage to the United States naval forces anchored there. With the support of President Gerald Ford, Congress passed a law in 1975 to allow more than 130,000 South Vietnamese and Cambodians to enter the United States, and President Jimmy Carter permitted 15,000 refugees who had escaped southeast Asia by boat to become permanent US residents in 1977. C. the military did not expand quickly until after the creation of the draft. B) join political organizations. A. defectors from the Soviet Union. In the following sentences, underline the gerund. A second set of recordings, in which the interviewees were asked to address their thoughts and opinions on the attack and the declaration of war directly to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was made under the auspices of the Office of Emergency Management in January and February 1942. D. the establishment of internment camps for resident aliens. After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor. a.) Between 1980 and 2018, more than 3,000,000 refugees have been resettled in the United States. C. generate support for the war effort and boost morale through the media. We are going to win the war and we are going to win the peace that follows. According to Truman, his main goal in deciding to use the atomic bomb was to B) save lives. 1942: Feb. 19. C. the British Royal Air Force The IRO also operated the International Tracing Service whose purpose was to help survivors find their families and learn the fate of loved ones. What were some similarities between racism in Nazi Germany and in the United States, 1920s-1940s? B. to force Japan into fighting a two-front war and gain strategic positions from which to attack The Senate passed a bill on June 2, 1948, the House passed another on June 11, and a hurried compromise ensued, finally reaching the president on the final day of the congressional session. ", Choose the statement that accurately reflects the relationship between private business and the federal government during World War II. A) the end of the Great Depression. ", Choose the statement that describes an economic consequence of the United States as an "arsenal of democracy." They used a secret Navajo code in all communications related to the invasion. B. the economy failed to improve. Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C. / [WKL]. B) the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg Trials Why did Roosevelt and the other Allied leaders decide to pursue a "Europe First" strategy in the war? C) The Nazis' anti-Semitic propaganda campaign was popular in America. B. Interventionists thought aid would bring us into war; isolationists thought aid would keep us out of the war. D) forced Jews out of their homes and into tightly cramped ghettoes. D.It showed Roosevelt could be flexible when negotiating with the Soviet Union. Yet the United States would not enter the war until it was attacked directly. D. With war already raging in Asia, the invasion sparked a global conflict that lasted until 1945. The project's staff believed that most commercial radio broadcasts of the day were dominated by programs created in the great urban centers and that these programs failed to reflect regional culture, local talent, and, in particular, the voices of the people speaking in their own words. As a consequence, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and American women became more aggressive in trying to win their full freedoms and civil rights as guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution during the postwar era. A) United States revealed its plan to use the atomic bomb. D. The labor demands of war industries caused millions more Americans to move--largely to the Atlantic, Pacific . On December 8, 1941 (the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor), Alan Lomax, then "assistant in charge" of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the American Folklife Center archive), sent a telegram to fieldworkers in ten different localities across the United States, asking them to collect "man-on-the-street" reactions of ordinary Americans to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent declaration of war by the United States. Wallace would later become a crucial part of the US Navy, and serve as a Corpsman in the Pacific Theater. Hundreds of thousands of liberated Jews, suffering from starvation and disease, emerged from concentration camps, hiding places, and places of temporary refuge to discover a world which still seemed to have no place for them. D. To free Australia from Japanese occupation The initial purpose of the Nazi concentration camps was supposedly to b.) A) the participation of the United States. What events is the preamble referring to in this excerpt? Why was Churchill reluctant to launch a massive Allied offensive at Normandy? The United States responded in kind, and therefore entered World War II. Audie Murphy famously received the Congressional Medal of Honor for "Corporations and business owners used the assembly line to tackle production on a massive scale. Students begin to understand and stake out a preliminary position in response to the assessment writing prompt. A. through the sale of government issued war bonds B. Public policy, like the so-called GI Bill of Rights passed in 1944, provided money for veterans to attend college, to purchase homes, and to buy farms. Goebbels wrote: On the basis of the Tripartite Pact we will probably not [be able to avoid] a declaration of war on the United States. World War II changed both the type of work women did and the volume at which they did it. e) no Americans were taken prisoner by the Japanese. d.) The 1941 recordings were made as a part of the the Library of Congress' Radio Research Project. "I thought the government should have adopted deficit spending during the war instead of focusing on keeping a balanced budget." B. As a result, the quota for the British Isles rose from 34,007 to 65,721, while the quota for Germany fell significantly, from 51,227 to 25,957. Experts believe that if Japan didn't attack Pearl Harbor, then America probably would not have been involved in World War II. D. The State Department, therefore, became responsible for enforcing the quota law, and midnight races ended. D. less expansion, What were Japan's two mistakes in Pearl Harbor? C. Many Americans favored a strong interventionist foreign policy regarding the situation in Europe and Asia. Japan targeted civilian populations when they dropped bombs on the Allied Powers. After World War II, the American people continued to oppose increased immigration. C. Place the events related to World War II in the correct sequence, following the signing of a mutual defense treaty by Japan and Germany. D. The U.S. rejected Japan's demand of expansion. After the war, the United States Polling also showed that more Americans supported immigration limits on Jewish DPs than on Germans who had left their homes fleeing Soviet occupation. "We began a civil rights campaign to achieve both a victory in Europe and a victory over racism in the U.S." a.) A. Admiral Nimitz was able to secure a decisive victory against the Japanese naval forces at the Battle of Midway because The photographs and graphs in this gallery support the conclusion that The roots of World War II, which eventually pitted Germany, Japan, and Italy (the Axis) against the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union (the Allies), lay in the militaristic ideologies and expansionist policies of Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan. The United States did not sign the 1951 Refugee Convention. General Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe because Three years after the end of the war, there were still a substantial number of displaced persons in Europe. c.) By 1948, a new form of international tension had emerged--Cold War--between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. On May 24, 1924, Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act or the National Origins Act. It is actual collaboration so well calculated that all the continents of the world, and all the oceans, are now considered by the Axis strategists as one gigantic battlefield. To show unity among world powers Positive C) U.S. entry into World War II. B. answer choices. classified them as enemy combatants. The War Refugee Board his skillful handling of the Allied offensive at Normandy. Pages 4 Course Hero uses AI to attempt to automatically extract content from documents to surface to you and others so you can study better, e.g., in search results, to enrich docs, and more. Pressure from China, a.) They had significant military value that helped to keep Japan in the war. State Department officials could advise a potential immigrant on the probability that he/she would be allowed to enter due to health or economic status, but entry decisions were made upon disembarking in the United States. The vote was bipartisan and was not close (293-41). a.) The population plummeted due to people going to fight overseas. Those men held power by selling everyone else a myth: The biggest threat to workers like you are . Immigrants from the Western Hemisphere, needed for US labor, were non-quota arrivals, exempted from the quota system. Pete Seeger playing banjo, 1948. The act was meant to solve the midnight races problem and establish a more permanent immigration law. A. C. Did not destroy all airfare WARSAW, Poland (AP) President Joe Biden, returning on Tuesday to the Polish castle where he spoke shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year, said the war had hardened Western resolve to defend democracy around the globe. After the United States entered World War II: a) Americans saw little military action for the first few months of 1942. b) Americans immediately won several key battles. How did the Nazi regime differ most from the Japanese government in the 1930s? Hitler 's greatest strategic disadvantage in opposing the Allies' imminent reentry into Europe lay in the immense stretch of Germany 's conquests, from the west coast of France to the east coast of Greece. D. demonstrate their support for Germany and Italy. B. economic equality A. racial tensions related to the huge influx of laborers from Mexico. ", b.) After the united states entered world war ii. Insisting that a penny saved is a penny earned, Benjamin Franklin was well known for his___ ways. D. C) World War I and the Spanish Civil War Underline each predicate adjective or compound predicate adjective in the following sentences. The IRO constitution stated that refugees and displaced persons constitute an urgent problem which is international in scope and character and while displaced persons should be returned home, refugees should be assisted by international action. D) 290,000 people. The Nazi forces were able to buy time for more reinforcements to arrive. D. intercept enemy intelligence and relay it to the troops on the frontlines. These and other viewpoints would be challenged with the United States' entry into World War II. B. the enforced rationing of consumer goods. A. the federal government seized control of factories in order to increase war production. B. the economy failed to improve. C. committed suicide in his bunker. What is the World War II? the United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese bombed the . . B.The United States was convinced to remain neutral. The so-called Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles in 1943 were a result of a.) Both collections are included in this presentation. Not all Americans participated equally in these expanding life opportunities and in the growing economic prosperity. The United States did not sign the 1951 Refugee Convention, but did sign the 1967 United Nations Refugee Protocol, which removed those geographical and time limitations. "President Roosevelt nationalized the shipping and shipbuilding industries." B. leading the charge at Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion at Normandy. C) the Allies invaded Germany from Denmark and Sweden. A. This was the first time refugees gained distinct legal status under international law. World War II was just six years long but surprisingly, it had two presidents ruling the United States during its course. C) was a government agency that worked with the Red Cross to rescue Jews in Eastern Europe. D. Article 19 explains that people in all countries should be able to Based on this graph and your knowledge of history, the growth in U.S. employment was sparked by C. C. The 1951 Convention only applied to persons who became refugees as a result of events occurring [in Europe] before 1 January 1951. These limits in time and geography were in place until 1967, when the Refugee Protocol expanded refugee protection to people fleeing persecution worldwide on a more permanent basis. it effectively destroyed Japan's ability to launch airstrikes. Approximately 80,000 Jewish DPs entered the United States between 1948 and 1952 under the Displaced Persons Act. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States declared war against Japan and entered World War II. all of Japan's aircraft carriers were mistakenly directed to Guam. "We were faced with the possibility of deportation even though we were U.S. citizens." b.) The United States Enters World War II. A) less than one quarter B) the creation of a five-member Security Council. Unit 3 Challenge Questions/ The United States, Sophia U.S. History 2 Unit 4 Milestone Study, Sophia.org U.S. History II - UNIT 4 - CHALLEN, Vulnerability Scans, Security and Controls, Sophia.org U.S. History II - FINAL MILESTONE, John Lund, Paul S. Vickery, P. Scott Corbett, Todd Pfannestiel, Volker Janssen, Eric Hinderaker, James A. Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, Robert O. Self, Donald Kagan, Frank M. Turner, Steven Ozment. D) publish material opposing the government. These laws did not change in the 1930s, as desperate Jewish refugees attempted to immigrate from Nazi Germany. National Expansion and Reform, 1815 - 1880, Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945. d.) Why do you think Roosevelt compared the Germans to gangsters? B) World War I and World War II D) demonstrate the power of nuclear weapons. It was difficult for him to gauge where the Allies would strike next. The Pearl Harbor attack The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began just before 8 a.m. local time Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. "The government issued a defense contract with our company, but we were not guaranteed a profit." C) about 15 years The United States will probably no longer make aircraft, weapons, and transport available to England so carelessly, as it can be assumed that they will need these for their own war against Japan. Truman particularly criticized the fact that the bill restricted eligibility to people who had entered Germany, Austria, or Italy prior to December 22, 1945, effectively discriminating against Jewish displaced persons, many of whom had been in the Soviet zone of occupation and only traveled to western Europe later. A) the Axis pushed back the Allied advance from the Soviet Union. Dec. 7. purchasing government war bonds. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president of the United States for the majority of this time, from 1933 to 1945. From our 21st-century point of view, it is hard to imagine World War II without the United States as a major participant. Which area on the map received the MOST aid from the U.S. prior to 1942? b.) Pete Seeger and Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly) recorded original songs for the "Dear Mr. President" interviews. A. It would be difficult to make them surrender. To secure an unconditional surrender from Japan, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of _____ and D. flying more successful bombing missions over Japan than any other pilot in the war. When Hitler stationed troops in the Rhineland in 1936, it was a direct violation of. D. He issued an order to desegregate the military. Then, tell whether the gerund is a subject, a predicate nominative, a direct object, an indirect object, or an object of a preposition. "The government rejected deficit spending as a way to finance war production." Which policy best demonstrates appeasement during the 1930s? 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