World War II

Place the following events in chronological order​ (a)   ​ (b)   ​ (c)   ​ (d)  

• Japan invades Korea and China
• Germany invades Poland
• Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
• U.S. involvement in World War II

Which phrases from President Roosevelt's address reveal a turning away from U.S. isolationism during World War II?

Select TWO correct answers.

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• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Which situation influenced Harry S. Truman's decision to use atomic weapons against Japan?

• The U.S. military's island-hopping campaign against Japan was unsuccessful, and U.S. public opinion was turning against the war

• Strong resistance by the Japanese showed that an invasion of Japan would result in a large number of U.S. casualties.

• Many U.S. navy ships were destroyed during battles in the Pacific, and the Allies were not ready to send reinforcements.

• The U.S. military needed to move supplies from the Pacific to help with fighting in Europe.

Drag and place the nationalities correctly replace the three question marks on this notice?

a

b

c

Polish

Italian

Russian

German

Japanese

Portuguese

Romanian

Irish

Spanish

Mexican

In this excerpt, President Clinton is apologizing for-

• the passage if the Chinese Exclusion Act

• the verdict of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial

• the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee

• the internment of Japanese Americans

The bracero program encouraged

• Mexican workers to come to the United States as temporary laborers from the 1940s to the 1960s

• federal courts to protect the civil rights of Mexican Americans in the 1960s

• the United States media to broadcast Latino music and movies in the 1980s

• Congress to enact more restrictive immigration laws in the 1990s

• Latino immigrants to pursue United States citizenship

Conscription policies in the First and Second World Wars differed significantly in that in the Second World War

• African Americans were drafted into integrated units

• conscientious objectors were not officially recognized

• the draft began before the United States entered the conflict

• the draft was administered at the regional and federal levels by the armed forces

• exemptions were offered for a range of war-related occupations

The image was most likely intended to promote

• popular support for federal civil rights legislation to end discrimination

• the belief that women should have rights equal to those of men

• the movement of women into jobs traditionally held by men

• access to union membership for all workers regardless of race or gender

The Supreme Court ruling in Korematsu v. United States upheld the constitutionality of

• flag burning as a form of free speech

• prohibiting of Japanese workers from immigrating to the United States

• the internment of Japanese Americans as a wartime necessity

• private prayer in public schools

• excluding Japanese Americans children form California public schools

The Lend-Lease Act was to

• create military bases outside the borders of the United States

• lend money to impoverished farmers

• provide military supplies to the Allies

• provide subsidies to railroads and businesses

• exchange scientific information among nations