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The skill and courage of the Tuskegee Airmen served to —

• give the United States an advantage in military encryption

• encourage immigrant enlistment in the U.S. Army during World War II

• decrease opposition to integrating the armed forces

• increase the number of women joining the U.S. military during World War II

Daily News August 1945

Atomic Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

What was the main effect of the event reported in this headline?

• The Soviet Union invaded Japan to gain access to natural resources.

• The United States initiated the Marshall Plan to help with the rebuilding of Japan.

• Germany surrendered to the Allies and promised to help in the fight against Japan.

• World War II ended with Japan surrendering to the Allies.

The Daily Star April 9, 1942

Japanese Forces Occupy Bataan Peninsula

Many of the U.S. soldiers involved in the event mentioned in this headline —

• remained in trenches and resisted the Japanese invasion

• were exchanged for Japanese prisoners of war

• escaped and were redeployed to the European theater

• died during a forced march to a prison camp in the Philippines

The conflict is still sharpening throughout the world between two political systems. The one system represents government by freedom of choice exercised by the individual citizens. In the other, and opposing system, individual freedom and initiative are all made subordinate to the totalitarian state.

—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938

What was the ultimate result of the situation President Roosevelt refers to in this excerpt?

• A surge of social unrest in South America

• The outbreak of World War II

• A shift in favor of the policy of appeasement

• The overthrow of the monarchy in Russia

What was a primary purpose of the program being promoted by this poster?

• To encourage women to join the workforce

• To reduce health problems among working women

• To promote the purchase of organically grown produce

• To increase the food supply during a farm-labor shortage

How did President Harry S. Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb affect international relations?

• It initiated the arms race with the Soviet Union.

• It prompted other nations to begin investigations of war crimes.

• It enabled the United Nations to administer territory in Japan.

• It led to the establishment of the first global peacekeeping force.

There is a solidarity and interdependence about the modern world . . . which makes it impossible for any nation completely to isolate itself from economic and political upheavals in the rest of the world, especially when such upheavals appear to be spreading and not declining. . . . International anarchy destroys every foundation for peace. It jeopardizes . . . the future security of every nation, large or small. It is, therefore, a matter of vital interest and concern to the people of the United States that the sanctity of international treaties and the maintenance of international morality be restored.

—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937

President Roosevelt later used similar reasoning as one justification for —

• the implementation of the Marshall Plan

• dropping atomic bombs on Japan

• U.S. involvement in World War II

• U.S. participation in the League of Nations

Onset of World War II -----------> Acceleration of the Manhattan Project

This diagram indicates that during World War II the federal government —

• provided technological training for soldiers on the battlefield

• developed a new weapon designed to gain a strategic advantage over enemies

• instituted a disaster-preparedness program for the civilian population

• nationalized industries considered essential to national security

How were the Navajo words in this table used during World War II?

• As propaganda to improve morale among Allied soldiers

• As a secret code for communicating battle plans between Allied units

• As signal words for Allied spies posing as civilians

• As a language of diplomacy for exchanges with enemy forces

Navajo soldiers made an important contribution to the Allied war effort during World War II by —

• designing radar technology for submarines

• flying bombing missions into enemy territory

• encoding military communications for secure transmission

• providing intelligence on enemy positions