b.) B) join political organizations. President Roosevelt helped increase employment opportunities for African Americans when he Why did Roosevelt and the other Allied leaders decide to pursue a "Europe First" strategy in the war? Nazi Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941. B) the end of World War II. 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. The legislation never made it out of committee for a vote. On December 9, 1941two days after the attackUS President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the American people on the radio. a.) They feature a wide diversity of opinion concerning the war and other social and political issues of the day, such as racial prejudice and labor disputes. citizens." Which series of events is arranged in the correct chronological order? Industry stopped . C. He created the American Red Cross to assist soldiers and their families. With war already raging in Asia, the invasion sparked a global conflict that lasted until 1945. What were some similarities between racism in Nazi Germany and in the United States, 1920s-1940s? What demographic effects did the war have on northern cities such as Detroit and Chicago? What major advantage did the United States possess over the Soviet Union following the war? They felt that Germany posed the greatest long-term threat to all parties involved. While overall immigration into the United States did not increase, between 35,00040,000 DPs, most of whom were Jewish, entered the United States between December 22, 1945, and July 1, 1948, under provisions of the Truman Directive. The only editing redacted interviewee names from several recordings and removed Leadbelly's two songs for which permissions have not yet been received. D. less expansion, What were Japan's two mistakes in Pearl Harbor? (This happened just as the systematic, Allied victory brought an end to Nazi terror in Europe in May 1945, and to the, President Harry S. Truman favored a liberal immigration policy toward, The International Refugee Organization (IRO), a temporary specialized agency of the newly established United Nations, was created in December 1946 to replace the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees (IGC), which had originally been created during the. On June 5, 1941, diplomats abroad were cautioned that visas would soon be denied to applicants with close relatives remaining in German-occupied countries. What was the importance of the Lend-Lease Act? D. A portion of this project aimed to create documentary recordings of Americans from around the country who described their lives, sang their songs, and told the stories of their own regions. It would be difficult to make them surrender. Yet the United States would not enter the war until it was attacked directly. contributing to a "black market" for consumer goods. . e) no Americans were taken prisoner by the Japanese. How did the United States government and American people respond to Nazism? D. Aggressive, What was the effect of this reaction on the aggressors? answer choices. Select an argument used in favor of U.S. involvement in World War II. B) save lives. According to Truman, his main goal in deciding to use the atomic bomb was to In an attempt to prevent American interference in the Pacific war, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the US naval station in Hawaii, in a surprise attack on December 7, 1941. all of Japan's aircraft carriers were mistakenly directed to Guam. D. C) the Allies invaded Germany from Denmark and Sweden. C. Americans suffered heavy losses at Pearl Harbor. B. What was the Atlantic Charter? How were the Allies able to keep the planned invasion at Normandy a secret from the Nazis? On November 25, 1936, a month after Germany and Italy entered into a treaty of friendship, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan signed the Anti . laborers migrated from Mexico to work in factories in the North. created the Office of Price Administration. growing their own food in "victory gardens.". What factors after 1939 led to US involvement in World War II? defend New York City against a nuclear attack. He warned that there were "hard and bitter days ahead," but pledged that the United States and its allies would "have Ukraine's back" as the war . C) The Nazis' anti-Semitic propaganda campaign was popular in America. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because they wanted to "Since the government guaranteed a profit on sales, our corporation accepted a defense contract." Those men held power by selling everyone else a myth: The biggest threat to workers like you are . "My factory converted its production lines to produce bombers, and we hired more workers. To protect Australia from a Japanese invasion, a.) Which of the following is a reason that the United States initially stayed out of World War II? The neutral USA entered World War II only after many months of argument in Congress and after the attack on Pearl Harbor. World War Two ended finally in the summer of nineteen forty-five. B. We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. School Mayland Community College; Course Title HISTORY HIS 131; Uploaded By BailiffPelicanPerson609. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president of the United States for the majority of this time, from 1933 to 1945. This request resulted in approximately four and one half hours of recordings that were used to create a fifteen-minute radio program for the Mutual Broadcasting System. At the last minute, the Senate rejected the Houses proposed amendment, which would have made a distinction between immigrants and refugees by exempting immigrants who could prove they were escaping political or racial persecution. C) restricted the number of countries that accepted Jewish refugees. a.) The United Nations succeeded where the League of Nations failed largely due to his successful campaigns in North Africa and Sicily. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered World War II and financed the Allied war effort, and helped defeat Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the European theater. C. opposition to policies requiring racial segregation of factory workers. Designed for California 10th grade world history courses, this unit guides students through a study of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide that focuses on choices and human behavior. This was the first time refugees gained distinct legal status under international law. D) Soviet Union proposed free elections throughout Eastern Europe. D. B. President Truman feared a second Japanese attack on American soil. B. Both collections are included in this presentation. American military officials knew that many Japanese soldiers would rather die than surrender. How did President Roosevelt lead the mobilization of the war effort? In 1921 and 1924, the US Congress passed immigration laws that severely limited the number and national origin of new immigrants. Since 1980, the United States has had a defined procedure for carrying out the countrys agreed-upon duties under the protocol. On December 8, Joseph Goebbels described Adolf Hitler as exceptionally happy when he learned the news. Alan Lomax was serving as folklore consultant for the project when he sent the December 8, 1941 telegram, asking fieldworkers to collect "man-on-the-street" reactions. C. Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, however, Americans were seriously divided over what the role of the United States in the war should be, or if it should even have a role at all. C. Did not destroy all airfare B. d.) They were followed in June 1940 by Italy, in June 1941 by Russia, and in December 1941 by Japan and the USA - though the conflict as a whole had actually began in July 1937 with war between China and Japan. D. the establishment of internment camps for resident aliens. 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. C. When did the United States enter World War I? After the United States entered World War II, The main idea behind the United Nations was to After the war, the United States and the international community used a series of directives, organizations, and laws to help displaced European refugees, including Holocaust survivors, immigrate to new countries. But within two years of the end of the war, new challenges and perceived threats had arisen to erode that confidence. After World War II, the American people continued to oppose increased immigration. D. Japanese Americans feared that Japan would try to punish them for siding with the United States in the war. How did the Neutrality Act of 1939 differ from the previous Neutrality Acts passed by Congress in 1935, 1936, and 1937? 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. Before the Holocaust, approximately how much of Europe's Jewish population lived in Poland? Six million European Jews had been murdered. In Article 2, Principle 1, what does sovereign mean? Why is Frank hopeful that the Nazi reign will end? A) They were still unaware of the death camps' existence at that point. "We were faced with the possibility of deportation even though we were U.S. ", d.) In most cases, the recordings were digitized by Library of Congress staff directly from the discs on which they were originally recorded. B. A) the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights B. D) forced Jews out of their homes and into tightly cramped ghettoes. This led to so-called midnight races, where passenger ships raced to reach the United States as soon as possible at the beginning of each month, when new portions of the quota were opened. d.) World War II changed both the type of work women did and the volume at which they did it. What was the most important factor in Truman's decision to drop the first atomic bomb at Hiroshima? ", Choose the statement that describes an economic consequence of the United States as an "arsenal of democracy." C. c.) D) the state sponsored attack on German Jews in 1938. (This happened just as the systematic, mass murder of the Jews began with the German invasion of the Soviet Union.) The relationship between the Allies was complicated by B. C. "The government should have adopted deficit spending during the war to boost the economy instead of focusing on keeping a balanced budget." World War I was the deadliest conflict until that point in human history, claiming tens of millions of casualties on all sides. C. WACs sponsored fund raisers to purchase government war bonds. retroactively revoked their citizenship. The Act, which authorized 200,000 displaced persons to enter the United States, "mortgaged" the still-extant . D) She is certain the Germans will lose the war. World War II, also called Second World War, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939-45. It granted Germany a testing ground for new technology. A. D. universal education. ", b.) Place the events related to World War II in the correct sequence, following the signing of a mutual defense treaty by Japan and Germany. American military officials knew that many Japanese soldiers would rather die than surrender. It created new quotas, which heavily favored England and northern Europe and set much lower quotas for immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, who had made up the majority of more recent immigration. Students view the film, analyze a primary source from the Oyneg Shabes archive, and consider why it matters who tells the stories of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. The new immigration law reserved 6% of each years visas for people who were fleeing persecution in communist areas or the Middle East, or had escaped after a natural disaster. On December 9, 1941two days after the attackUS President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the American people on the radio. classified them as enemy combatants. Planning for the post-World War II world began before the United States even entered the conflict. By 1968, strident debate among American about the Vietnam War signified that the Cold War consensus had shattered, perhaps beyond repair. It would require fewer resources and pave the way for an Allied invasion of Italy. Circle each direct object. C. The safety of Japanese Americans was threatened because most of the Japanese American community lived in war zones. 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. The American forces liberated Paris and much of occupied France. The result is a portrait of everyday life in America as the United States entered World War II. He said, in part: The course that Japan has followed for the past ten years in Asia has paralleled the course of Hitler and Mussolini in Europe and in Africa. A) victory over fear and want, as described in the Four Freedoms speech With President Trumans encouragement, Congress passed limited legislation to aid European displaced persons, including Holocaust survivors. A. Japanese attacks on U.S. ships trading with China. C. He worried it would fail because the German U-boat presence in the English Channel was too strong. A) gathered widespread support for the creation of a Jewish homeland. "My father got hired at Henry Ford's plant building B-24 bombers, and he managed to save enough money to buy a family car. Throughout the 1930s, most Americans opposed changing or adjusting the Johnson-Reed Act, fearing that immigrants, including those fleeing persecution, would compete for scarce jobs and burden public services in the midst of the Great Depression. limiting further U.S. casualties Choose the statement that best reflects the experiences of African Americans after the United States entered World War II. A major factor that led to US involvement in World War II was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. D.France and Britain sent troops to defend Poland. "Most defense contracts went to small businesses like the one I own." a.) Diego Rivera. Many Americans felt he was simply trying to postpone the inevitable war in Europe. "As the war continued, the economy weakened, leaving most working American families poor." "We were forced by the government to move from California because they feared we might be capable of sabotage or espionage." To free Australia from Japanese occupation He believed that cutting off Germany's shipping routes on the Atlantic was the key to winning the war. Most of Japan's former colonies were now under U.S. control. ", d.) Had this amendment been enacted, American response to the refugee crisis in the 1930s may have been quite different. A. it effectively destroyed Japan's ability to launch airstrikes. The labor demands of war industries caused millions more Americans to move--largely to the Atlantic, Pacific . From our 21st-century point of view, it is hard to imagine World War II without the United States as a major participant. One important effect of the D-Day invasion was that The principal belligerents were the Axis powersGermany, Italy, and Japanand the AlliesFrance, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. D. Then, tell whether the gerund is a subject, a predicate nominative, a direct object, an indirect object, or an object of a preposition. Several bills were introduced to aid refugees; many more were introduced to curb or end immigration. After the united states entered world war ii. 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. Public opinion was more in line with Congress than Truman: an April 1948 poll showed that 53% of Americans disapproved of the plan to allow 200,000 displaced persons to enter, compared with 40% who approved. C. Passive Truman, disappointed by the limited reach of the act, said that he would have vetoed it had Congress been in session, but signed the act so there would be some legislation to aid displaced persons, rather than none. Usually there was bipartisan support for most US foreign policy initiatives. . After a day the incident, on 8th September 1941, United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared war on Japan and made its first entry into WW2. B. boost the morale of troops by sending popular entertainers overseas. founded the United Service Organizations. The United States long reserved its most lucrative occupations for an elite class of white men. It is our obligation to our deadit is our sacred obligation to their children and to our childrenthat we must never forget what we have learned. 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. A. A. C. Many Americans favored a strong interventionist foreign policy regarding the situation in Europe and Asia. ." Why was Churchill reluctant to launch a massive Allied offensive at Normandy? General Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe because After the United States intervened militarily in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, however, this political consensus began to break down. They had significant military value that helped to keep Japan in the war. In the next 20 years, the Cold War spawned many tensions between the two superpowers abroad and fears of Communist subversion gripped domestic politics at home. A. b.) A) punish Japan for carrying on the war. In 1940, Japan signed the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy, creating World War IIs Axis powers. B. the economy failed to improve. A. The United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention granted legal protection to refugees but placed limitations on qualifying for refugee status. b.) The Act, which authorized 200,000 displaced persons to enter the United States, mortgaged the still-extant 1924 immigration quotas, allowing up to 50% of future quota spaces to be used on behalf of displaced persons, with few exceptions. Claudia Bautista, Santa Monica, Calif. You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. In December 1920, in the context of this isolationism, the international influenza pandemic, and a postwar economic recession, the US House of Representatives voted to end all immigration to the United States for one year. ", Why did the three major Alliesthe United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Unionwant to launch a "second front" in Europe? American concerns over Japanese aggression in the Pacific. 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. A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4 2 b.) Find topics of interest and explore encyclopedia content related to those topics, Find articles, photos, maps, films, and more listed alphabetically, Recommended resources and topics if you have limited time to teach about the Holocaust, Explore the ID Cards to learn more about personal experiences during the Holocaust. A combination of presidential directives and congressional legislation aided other specific groups of refugees. These recordings total approximately seven and one half hours and were also used to create a radio program, entitled "Dear Mr. President," which was broadcast in May 1942. b.) C) U.S. entry into World War II. C. A large number of African Americans migrated there from the South to work in the factories. A. the Allied naval forces The experience of World War I had a . give each member state an equal say in world affairs. B) the creation of a five-member Security Council. The Pearl Harbor attack The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began just before 8 a.m. local time Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. C. The State Department, therefore, became responsible for enforcing the quota law, and midnight races ended. China. D) protect German Jews from anti-Semitic violence. D. Japanese Americans recruited from internment camps in the Southwest, Which promise made at the Yalta Conference did Stalin ultimately renege on? What event led to the House and Senate voting to declare war? The United States had the world's largest military force. A. issued Executive Order 8802. D) all of the Allies suffered economically due to the war. dividing power in Germany amongst the Allied Powers Shortly after entering World War II, the United States began the Manhattan Project to. General Patton had already turned down the position. C. legal D. He wanted to keep the other Allies busy so he could divide Eastern Europe as he saw fit. Negative In 1951, the United Nations adopted the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, which has been signed by 145 nations. The Refugee Act of 1980 remains in effect. After World War II, the United States of America entered a period of material abundance, caused largely by increased production. d.) C) victory over Germany and Japan 1942: Feb. 19. After Germanys annexation of Austria and with the advice of the State Department, a group of Jewish congressmen met and decided not to introduce any new legislation to expand immigration to aid Jewish refugees. D. American women and minorities found new opportunities. Choose the statement that describes an effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. More colleges and universities were built in the United States. Many of the scientists who developed the first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project were 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. Japan targeted civilian populations when they dropped bombs on the Allied Powers. "Corporations and business owners used the assembly line to tackle production on a massive scale. The United States did not sign the 1951 Refugee Convention. Choose which phrase was a factor in President Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. This online presentation also includes a set of interviews conducted in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. C) about 15 years What is gangsterism? C. an African American air squadron that conducted bombing raids over Europe. After World War II, thousands of Nazis became informants in the Cold War against the Soviet Union and then got entry into the U.S. Eric Lichtblau's new book, The Nazi Next Door, tells the story. On December 7, 1941 Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, inflicting heavy casualties and severe damage to the United States naval forces anchored there. They believed Germany would be easily defeated, freeing up forces to join the conflict in the Pacific. Its involvement culminated in using newly American invented nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to defeat Imperial Japan in the Pacific War. forcing Italy to surrender and change sides. Polling also showed that more Americans supported immigration limits on Jewish DPs than on Germans who had left their homes fleeing Soviet occupation. Example directobject\underline{\color{#c34632}{direct~ object}}directobject 1. A) the Nazi doctrine of Aryan racial superiority. A. defectors from the Soviet Union. ", Choose the statement that describes an economic consequence of the United States as an "arsenal of democracy." (Later on, they would see them as a potential national security risk.) "Over 90% of us were relocated against our will to assembly centers during the war." B. the Tripartite Pact The new law reflected anti-Catholic, antisemitic sentiment in the country. "We found financial self-reliance, which was new for us, after we went to work in the defense industry." Under this international treaty, a refugee was defined as, "a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it. A. In his 1947 State of the Union, Truman stated, We are dealing with a human problem, a world tragedy. In his 1948 State of the Union, he argued for suitable legislation at once so that this nation may do its share in caring for homeless and suffering refugees of all faiths. A. ", d.) "We were faced with the possibility of deportation even though we were U.S. citizens." b.) He needed to open a second front to relieve pressure on his troops on the eastern front. For each word at the left, complete the four derivatives indicated. A. The Second World War pitted two alliances against each other, the Axis powers and the Allied powers; the Soviet Union served 34 million men and women, Germany 18 million, the U.S 16 million, Japan 9 million, and Great Britain 6 million. A. dying in action while leading his troops to victory at Iwo Jima. "We arranged sit-ins and other protests around Washington, D.C., as a part of our Double V Campaign." The 1967 United Nations Refugee Protocol expanded the 1951 Refugee Convention, which had originally limited the definition of refugee to people who had been displaced in Europe prior to 1951. These and other viewpoints would be challenged with the United States' entry into World War II. ", a.) A. . Hence, the sudden attack almost shocked the entire United States. C) She maintains an optimistic view of humankind. "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. A. individual liberties protecting U.S. economic interests in China D) Hitler designated certain areas of the country as ghettoes to house the Jewish population. On August 9, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill first met aboard the cruiser USS Augusta. a.) The United States did not sign the 1951 Refugee Convention. The entry of the United States into World War II caused vast changes in virtually every aspect of American life. A) United States revealed its plan to use the atomic bomb. Which argument sums up the difference between isolationists and interventionists regarding aid to the Allies? General Bradley had less experience in launching amphibious attacks. Why did the Allies decide to wage a campaign in North Africa rather than the European mainland? B. less denouncement c.) British concerns over its border security in the Atlantic. A. gave orders to surrender. In the end, the United States was forced into the war on December 7th, 1941 when Japan surprise attack the United States at Pearl Harbor. d.) b.) Congress finally passed a Displaced Persons Act only reluctantly, and without public hearings. Under this international treaty, a refugee was defined as "a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.". It would prevent the Axis from receiving reinforcements from Japan's Indian Ocean fleet. 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