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In February 1945,an Allied bombing attack on Dresden,Germany


A) resulted in mostly civilian casualties.
B) All these answers are correct.
C) destroyed 75 percent of the previously undamaged city.
D) both killed approximately 135,000 people and resulted in mostly civilian casualties.
E) killed approximately 135,000 people.

F) B) and E)
G) None of the above

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During World War II,in the United States,all of the following social indicators experienced a rise in their rate of occurrence EXCEPT


A) the juvenile crime rate.
B) the birth rate.
C) the divorce rate.
D) high school enrollment.
E) the marriage rate.

F) None of the above
G) All of the above

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During World War II,American shoppers


A) had less money to spend than they had had the decade before, but did not buy as many magazines, as part of the war effort.
B) had less money to spend than they had had the decade before.
C) All these answers are correct.
D) did not buy as many magazines, as part of the war effort.
E) faced many shortages of consumer goods.

F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

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Congress enacted a system of automatic tax withholding through payroll deductions as a wartime measure.

A) True
B) False

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Working mothers during World War II usually relied on private child-care facilities.

A) True
B) False

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In June 1942,the United States gained control of the central Pacific with the Battle of Midway.

A) True
B) False

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During World War II,the Fair Employment Practices Commission was created


A) after serious racial rioting broke out in several northern industrial cities.
B) to help southern African Americans move to northern cities to take war jobs.
C) by President Roosevelt after black protesters threatened a massive march on the capital.
D) in response to significant protests led by the Congress of Racial Equality.
E) and led by A.Philip Randolph.

F) B) and C)
G) B) and E)

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The United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945 after


A) the Japanese government announced that the United States had only one atomic bomb.
B) the Soviet Union announced it would not enter into war against Japan.
C) the Japanese failed to provide a response to the first bomb.
D) the emperor of Japan declared that his country would fight to the death.
E) the emperor of Japan asked the United States for more time to consider surrendering.

F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

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The Smith-Connally Act of 1943


A) was opposed by President Franklin Roosevelt.
B) both was opposed by President Franklin Roosevelt and passed as a result of actions taken by the United Mine Workers.
C) passed as a result of actions taken by the United Mine Workers.
D) authorized the president to seize a war factory where workers had gone on strike.
E) All these answers are correct.

F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

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The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942


A) saw the United States forced to withdraw its naval forces.
B) marked the first important victory by the United States against Japan.
C) marked the major turning point of the war in the Pacific.
D) saw the Japanese lose most of its aircraft carriers.
E) saw the Americans take the offensive for the first time.

F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

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All of the following statements regarding the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II are true EXCEPT that


A) President Roosevelt was pressured by both military and political leaders to authorize the internment.
B) Japanese American children were put through a rigorous school system while at the internment camps.
C) most of those interned lost all their property and possessions.
D) the internment camps were essentially prisons.
E) the order for internment was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1944.

F) None of the above
G) B) and C)

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All of the following statements regarding the Allied development of an atomic bomb during World War II are true EXCEPT that


A) the program proceeded at a faster pace than had been expected.
B) plutonium was a practical fuel for the bomb.
C) Albert Einstein was in charge of the development program.
D) the government secretly poured nearly $2 billion into the project.
E) the program was code-named the Manhattan Project.

F) C) and E)
G) A) and D)

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During World War II,the labor force of the United States


A) was forced to contend with a large labor surplus.
B) saw both 16 million people leave civilian labor for the armed forces and the supply of civilian labor decline by 25 percent.
C) None of these answers is correct.
D) saw the supply of civilian labor decline by 25 percent.
E) saw more than 16 million people leave civilian labor for the armed forces.

F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

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