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HIUS 222 content quiz 5 Question 1 2 out of 2 points What were kamikazes? Selected Answer:

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They were Japanese who committed suicide in attacking American forces.

Question 2 2 out of 2 points Where did allied troops invade France on D-Day, June 6, 1944? Selected Answer: Normandy

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Question 3 2 out of 2 points When did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? Selected Answer: December 7, 1941

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Question 4 2 out of 2 points Which 1942 battle was the turning point in the Pacific theatre of World War II? Selected Answer: Battle of Midway

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Question 5 2 out of 2 points When did the war between Japan and China start that ultimately became part of World War II? Selected Answer: 1937

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Question 6 2 out of 2 points What method did the United States use to transport Mr. Wright and other soldiers safely across the Atlantic to Europe? Selected Answer: Military convoy system

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Question 7 2 out of 2 points Mr. Wright served in the 83rd Division of the Third Army under what general?

Selected Answer: George Patton 

Question 8 2 out of 2 points Where was Mr. Wright wounded in combat? Selected Answer: Border of Luxembourg and Germany

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Question 9 2 out of 2 points During what year was Mr. Wright drafted into the U.S. Army? Selected Answer: 1944

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Question 10 2 out of 2 points What was the purpose of the Washington Conference of 1921-22? Selected Answer: It attempted to prevent a global naval arms race.

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Question 11 2 out of 2 points What did opinion polls show about the clear majority of the American public in July 1940? Selected Answer: The public believed Germany posed a direct threat to the United States.

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Question 12 2 out of 2 points What made President Franklin Roosevelt’s decision in 1940 to give fifty American destroyers to England an issue? Selected Answer: It sidestepped the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts.

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Question 13 2 out of 2 points What did the “lend-lease” plan allow? Selected Answer:

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It allowed the U.S. to loan weapons to England, to be returned or paid for when the war was over.

Question 14 2 out of 2 points Which of the following statements is true about the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany?

Selected Answer: All of these answers are correct. 

Question 15 2 out of 2 points According to your textbook, what best describes the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928? Selected Answer: It was a treaty outlawing war.

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Question 16 2 out of 2 points Who was included in the Tripartite Pact alliance? Selected Answer: Japan, Germany, and Italy

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Question 17 2 out of 2 points What best describes fascism? Selected Answer: A rejection of democracy in favor of a dictatorship.

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Question 18 2 out of 2 points How did the Hoover administration respond to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 19312? Selected Answer: It issued warnings to the Japanese government.

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Question 19 2 out of 2 points What was significance of the 1940 election? Selected Answer: President Roosevelt ran for an unprecedented third term.

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Question 20 2 out of 2 points Which city did the Allies liberate from German occupation in August 1944? Selected Answer: Paris

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Question 21 2 out of 2 points What is significant about the internment of Japanese Americans by the United States government in 1942?

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There was no evidence that the Japanese Americans were a domestic security risk.

Question 22 2 out of 2 points What is true about the D-Day invasion? Selected Answer: All of the answers are true.

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Question 23 2 out of 2 points Which of the following was not an Allied advance in intelligence-gathering in World War II? Selected Answer: The creation of the Purple machine for coded communications.

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Question 24 2 out of 2 points Which country pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany in 1943? Selected Answer: The Soviet Union

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Question 25 2 out of 2 points Which of the following is true of casualties in World War II? Selected Answer: All of these answers are correct.

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Question 26 2 out of 2 points What weapon did Germany hold the technological edge over the Allies? Selected Answer: Rocket-propelled bombs

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Question 27 2 out of 2 points When did the U.S. government acquire definite knowledge of the Holocaust? Selected Answer: As early as 1942.

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Question 28 0 out of 2 points What was the most significant change in the labor force of the United States during World

War II? Selected Answer: All of the answers are correct. 

Question 29 2 out of 2 points What was the most significant issue in the 1944 election? Selected Answer: The domestic economy

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Question 30 2 out of 2 points What was unique about American shopping during World War II? Selected Answer: Shoppers faced many shortages of consumer goods....