a.) There were several well-publicized cases of Japanese American spies being caught operating in the United States. In the decades between World War I and the attack on Pearl Harbor, tensions between Japan and the United States were primarily caused by C) transform "undesirables" into productive members of society. . They felt that Germany posed the greatest long-term threat to all parties involved. C. The safety of Japanese Americans was threatened because most of the Japanese American community lived in war zones. Why were Jewish refugees on the ocean liner St. Louis turned away while trying to enter the United States in 1939? D. Hundreds of thousands of liberated Jews, suffering from starvation and disease, emerged from concentration camps, hiding places, and places of temporary refuge to discover a world which still seemed to have no place for them. D) Germany was forced to fight a war on two fronts. The project's staff believed that most commercial radio broadcasts of the day were dominated by programs created in the great urban centers and that these programs failed to reflect regional culture, local talent, and, in particular, the voices of the people speaking in their own words. D) demonstrate the power of nuclear weapons. B. A. racial tensions related to the huge influx of laborers from Mexico. b.) They needed to wrest control of the Suez Canal and the oilfields in the Middle East from Italy first. D.France and Britain sent troops to defend Poland. "Defense contracts during the war were undesirable, because they required that businesses pay huge upfront costs." All of Germany's European Axis allies participated to some degree in the persecution and murder of Jews during the Holocaust. C) They felt it would divert too many resources away from their military operations elsewhere. b.) This was the first time refugees gained distinct legal status under international law. Japanese Americans were allowed to serve in the military. c.) "The government paid most of the costs for my company to convert to wartime production. Choose the statement that best reflects the experiences of African Americans after the United States entered World War II. citizens." How did President Roosevelt lead the mobilization of the war effort? With President Truman's encouragement, Congress passed limited legislation to aid European displaced persons, including Holocaust survivors. Adolf Hitler declares war against the United States. Kristallnacht is the name given to describe The War against Poland: Speed and Brutality, The Jewish Ghettos: Separated from the World. B. B. Interventionists finally agreed with the isolationist position. D. With men off to fight a worldwide war across the Atlantic and the Pacific, women were called to take their place on the production line. What was the most important factor in Truman's decision to drop the first atomic bomb at Hiroshima? c.) US consulates in Nazi-occupied territory shut down in July 1941. Which was effectively an economic declaration of war against Germany and the Axis Powers? D. He thought that the United States would try to establish a permanent military presence in Western Europe. 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. Which U.S. government agency was formed as a response to the news that the Soviet Union had detonated a nuclear device? Before World War II and the Holocaust, American law made very little distinction between refugees forced to flee their countries due to persecution, and immigrants seeking a better life. avenging the attack on Pearl Harbor On December 8, Joseph Goebbels described Adolf Hitler as exceptionally happy when he learned the news. D. General Marshall was too valuable to remove from his position as Army Chief of Staff. C. More expansion In March 1980, Congress passed the Refugee Act of 1980, expressing that it is the historic policy of the United States to respond to the urgent needs of persons subject to persecution in their homelands. The Act laid out the procedures for the admission of refugees into the United States and how the US would fulfill its obligations as a signatory of the United Nations Refugee Protocol. According to Roosevelt, what principles was the United States fighting for? Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president of the United States for the majority of this time, from 1933 to 1945. World War II was just six years long but surprisingly, it had two presidents ruling the United States during its course. Draw two lines under each verb. Did not destroy all aircraft carriers/ did not declare war 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. 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW C) the prohibition of dictatorships like the Soviet Union. Wallace would later become a crucial part of the US Navy, and serve as a Corpsman in the Pacific Theater. 2. B. A. Through the end of World War II the United States would use it to provide a total of some $50 billion in aid (equal to $690 billion in 2020 dollars) to more than 30 nations around the globe, from . How did the Nazi regime differ most from the Japanese government in the 1930s? It is actual collaboration so well calculated that all the continents of the world, and all the oceans, are now considered by the Axis strategists as one gigantic battlefield. classified them as enemy combatants. founded the United Service Organizations. ", Choose the statement that accurately reflects the relationship between private business and the federal government during World War II. 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. b.) Choose the statement that describes an effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Nazi Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941. The act was meant to solve the midnight races problem and establish a more permanent immigration law. The population plummeted due to people going to fight overseas. (spendthrift; thrifty). Lend-lease was the term popularly given to the US policy of extending material aid to the Allies before and after the United States entered World War II. In Article 2, Principle 1, what does sovereign mean? To protect Soviet troops in France. C) the Allies invaded Germany from Denmark and Sweden. The American Theater was a theater of operations during World War II including all continental American territory, and extending 200 miles (320 km) into the ocean.. Owing to North and South America's geographical separation from the central theaters of conflict (in Europe, the Mediterranean and Middle East, and the Pacific) the threat of an invasion of the continental U.S. or other areas in . The gap in the labor force created by departing soldiers meant opportunities for women. D) three quarters, The Jewish population of Romania was reduced by approximately b.) The United States had the world's largest military force. America Declares War on Germany. "I thought the government should have adopted deficit spending during the war instead of focusing on keeping a balanced budget." Sources. In the twenty years following 1945, there was a broad political consensus concerning the Cold War and anti-Communism. his skillful handling of the Allied offensive at Normandy. B. "The government rejected deficit spending as a way to finance war production." Without any significant factual evidence, the government perceived Japanese Americans as being a threat to national security. They mobilized all their armored divisions in Italy for a supposed invasion there. 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. ", Choose the statement that accurately reflects the relationship between private business and the federal government during World War II. The United Nations Refugee Protocol of 1967 established the current international norms for defining and dealing with refugees, and 146 countries, including the United States, have signed this protocol. give each member state an equal say in world affairs. Truman particularly criticized the fact that the bill restricted eligibility to people who had entered Germany, Austria, or Italy prior to December 22, 1945, effectively discriminating against Jewish displaced persons, many of whom had been in the Soviet zone of occupation and only traveled to western Europe later. In 1948, President Truman demonstrated major support for the Jewish cause by ", Choose the statement that describes an economic consequence of the United States as an "arsenal of democracy." recruit men for the military services. The War Refugee Board School Mayland Community College; Course Title HISTORY HIS 131; Uploaded By BailiffPelicanPerson609. The United States declares war against Japan. Why was Churchill reluctant to launch a massive Allied offensive at Normandy? "Because taxes on income were lowered for the middle class, the wealthy, like my family, bore the brunt of funding the war effort. These and other viewpoints would be challenged with the United States' entry into World War II. Question 9. For most Jewish refugees, the new paperwork combined with the lack of access to American diplomats ended their hope of immigration to the United States. How did the bombing of Pearl Harbor lead to the entry of the United States into a war against Germany? A. new Geneva Convention agreements about prisoners. c.) The only significant attempt to pass a law to aid refugees came in 1939, when Democratic Senator Robert Wagner of New York and Republican Congresswoman Edith Rogers of Massachusetts introduced legislation in both houses of Congress that would allow 20,000 German refugee children under the age of 14 into the country over two years outside of the immigration quotas. increasingly took on more global responsibilities. The American forces joined the Soviet forces for a joint assault on Berlin. C) the policy of putting Jews into concentration camps. Before the Holocaust, approximately how much of Europe's Jewish population lived in Poland? D) the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the final phases of World War II in Europe, D. less expansion, What were Japan's two mistakes in Pearl Harbor? How did the Neutrality Act of 1939 differ from the previous Neutrality Acts passed by Congress in 1935, 1936, and 1937? c.) D. a.) By 1948, a new form of international tension had emerged--Cold War--between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. B. destroy ships and planes that threatened their expansion efforts. The vote was bipartisan and was not close (293-41). The Johnson-Reed Act also mandated that potential immigrants present their paperwork and receive US immigration visas at consulates abroad, prior to leaving for the United States. b.) D. He issued an order to desegregate the military. Small but significant named World War II US Navy Corpsman grouping named to Wallace H. Fritsch, who served on Peleliu during World War II. They were chosen randomly. B) setting up a National Holocaust Museum. A. Other countries fared worse: Poland, with a prewar Jewish population of 3.5 million, had a quota of 6,524, and Romania, with a Jewish population of nearly a million, had a quota of 377. B. D. the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor. A) the participation of the United States. "When the Japanese attacked, most factories were already set up to produce for the war effort." refugees and displaced persons constitute an urgent problem which is international in scope and character and while displaced persons should be returned home, refugees should be assisted by international action. C. What was the primary goal of the U.S. strategy of "island hopping" in the Pacific? C. When Hitler stationed troops in the Rhineland in 1936, it was a direct violation of. The Second War Powers Act of 1942 (56 Stat. C. What major advantage did the United States possess over the Soviet Union following the war? 1942: Feb. 19. D) Soviet Union proposed free elections throughout Eastern Europe. D. B. refugees who had fled from Nazi-occupied Europe. answer choices. Students connect themes from the film to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's concept of single stories," and then consider what it would take to tell more equitable and accurate narratives. This online presentation also includes a set of interviews conducted in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. A) process the forced deportation of German Jews to other countries. D. intercept enemy intelligence and relay it to the troops on the frontlines. They were historically significant. A. Even the 300,000 combat deaths suffered by Americans paled in comparison to any other major belligerent. laborers migrated from Mexico to work in factories in the North. it bought U.S. forces more time to focus on the war in Europe. What events is the preamble referring to in this excerpt? limiting further U.S. casualties B. Interventionists thought aid would bring us into war; isolationists thought aid would keep us out of the war. cooperating in trials to bring former Nazis to justice Thirty-five years after they won that apology and survivors of prison camps received $20,000 each . To secure an unconditional surrender from Japan, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of _____ and Choose the statement that best reflects the experience of women as a social group after the United States entered World War II. Goebbels wrote: On the basis of the Tripartite Pact we will probably not [be able to avoid] a declaration of war on the United States. It would force the Axis to retreat from Stalingrad and give the Soviets a chance to regroup. A. The American forces liberated Paris and much of occupied France. B. The entry of the United States into World War II caused vast changes in virtually every aspect of American life. The United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention granted legal protection to refugees but placed limitations on qualifying for refugee status. Between 1933 and 1941, for example, roughly 118,000 German quota slots that could have been used went unfilled. Savage fighting and heavy American casualties occurred in the battles on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. B. The IRO also operated the International Tracing Service whose purpose was to help survivors find their families and learn the fate of loved ones. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States declared war against Japan and entered World War II. For each word at the left, complete the four derivatives indicated. C. 1. A. Admiral Nimitz was able to secure a decisive victory against the Japanese naval forces at the Battle of Midway because . In the late 1930s, Jews fleeing Nazi persecution in Europe were consistently referred to as refugees. However, this term had no legal meaning under US law, save for theoretically exempting these immigrants from having to pass a literacy test. "My factory converted its production lines to produce bombers, and we hired more workers. B) save lives. B) The Nazi racial classification laws were officially put into effect. "The government should have adopted deficit spending during the war to boost the economy instead of focusing on keeping a balanced budget." The United States signed the United Nations Refugee Protocol on November 6, 1968. B) head of the United Nations Security Council The United States, a signatory along with54 other nations, supplied 40% of the IROs administrative expenses and 46% of its operational expenses, and the IROs Director-General was always an American citizen. The preamble mentions "the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind." 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. ", b.) Three years after the end of the war, there were still a substantial number of displaced persons in Europe. Polling also showed that more Americans supported immigration limits on Jewish DPs than on Germans who had left their homes fleeing Soviet occupation. D. Interventionists thought aid would help end the From our 21st-century point of view, it is hard to imagine World War II without the United States as a major participant. Allied forces strategy during World War II. What was the result of the Battle of the Bulge? protecting U.S. economic interests in China Refugees are granted the right to work, to housing, to education, to public assistance, to freedom of movement within the territory, and cannot be punished for illegal entry. B. "As the war continued, the supply of weaponry became greater than demand and prices fell." Students incorporate new evidence from the history of the Weimar era into the position they are developing. 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. In what periods was the Mississippi River a national boundary, and why was control of the river important for the United States? D. American women and minorities found new opportunities. On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler Why did Roosevelt and the other Allied leaders decide to pursue a "Europe First" strategy in the war? In his address to the Reichstag, Hitler said: If it is the will of Providence that the German people not be spared this struggle, then I will be grateful to Providence for having appointed me leader in a historic contest, which for the next five hundred or one thousand years, will decisively affect not only German history but also the history of Europe, and indeed all of mankind. After the United States entered World War II, immigrants from which of the following countries became eligible for U.S. citizenship? 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. The United States officially enters World War I. April 6, 1917: Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the . D.It showed Roosevelt could be flexible when negotiating with the Soviet Union. a.) In most cases, the recordings were digitized by Library of Congress staff directly from the discs on which they were originally recorded. B. the Munich Pact d.) The legislation never made it out of committee for a vote. C) The Nazis' anti-Semitic propaganda campaign was popular in America. Today, it has become far more than a parallel. World War II started on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland. A. gain control of the Hawaiian Islands. A. . View the list of all donors. Faced with Congressional inaction, he issued a statement, known as the "Truman Directive," on December 22, 1945, announcing that DPs would be granted priority for US visas within the existing quota system. A. A. A. Isolationists thought aid would bring us into war; interventionists thought aid would keep us out of the war. "I was outraged when the government nationalized my business and forced us to produce war material." He died of a brain hemorrhage on April 12,1945. In exchange, refugees must abide by the laws and regulations of the country of asylum. This enabled Roosevelt to establish what became known as the . D. ", Choose the statement that describes an economic consequence of the United States as an "arsenal of democracy." B) the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the Nuremberg Trials What factors after 1939 led to US involvement in World War II? To seize islands vital to Japanese transportation and communication. Choose the statement that describes a cause of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. D. a German airborne force who rescued Mussolini from a mountaintop fortress in Italy. Americans and the Holocaust online exhibition, Teaching Materials on Americans and the Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library bibliography: The United States and the Holocaust, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center. C. WACs sponsored fund raisers to purchase government war bonds. D) more than 20 years. B. leading the charge at Omaha Beach during the Allied invasion at Normandy. U.S. and British forces struck a major blow against the Nazis' capacity to make war by "Over 90% of us were relocated against our will to assembly centers during the war." A) one million people. c.) A) gathered widespread support for the creation of a Jewish homeland. C. a pact signed by Great Britain and the United States agreeing to avoid entangling alliances with the Soviet Union . C. A) the Nazi doctrine of Aryan racial superiority. A. A) less than 5 years Depression; Isolationists thought aid would prolong the Depression. C. holding off a German offensive by himself after ordering his troops to withdraw. "Since the government guaranteed a profit on sales, our corporation accepted a defense contract." A) travel anywhere within the country. Approximately 80,000 Jewish DPs entered the United States between 1948 and 1952 under the Displaced Persons Act. strategically bombing Germany's major industrial centers. 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. Why do you think Roosevelt compared the Germans to gangsters? ", d.) The IRO constitution stated that refugees and displaced persons constitute an urgent problem which is international in scope and character and while displaced persons should be returned home, refugees should be assisted by international action. Our headquarters are located at: 89 South Street, Suite 401, Boston, MA 02111. Hence, the sudden attack almost shocked the entire United States. Immigrants from the Western Hemisphere, needed for US labor, were non-quota arrivals, exempted from the quota system. Congress began negotiating a new immigration bill, which would set quotas for the first time on the number of immigrants from each country who could enter the United States. It would be difficult to make them surrender. On July 1, 1941, the same day that the new relatives rule went into effect, the State Department centralized all alien visa control in Washington. After World War I, America became an isolationist nation. d.) As a result, the quota for the British Isles rose from 34,007 to 65,721, while the quota for Germany fell significantly, from 51,227 to 25,957. This presentation was made possible with the generous support of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the New Deal Network. Then, tell whether the gerund is a subject, a predicate nominative, a direct object, an indirect object, or an object of a preposition. To control rent and other consumer prices after the start of World War II, the Office of Price Administration was established. Choose which phrase was a factor in President Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. The 1921 quotas were enforced on Ellis Island, not at US consulates abroad. April 6, 1917 In 1951, the United Nations adopted the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, which has been signed by 145 nations. Many of the scientists who developed the first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project were Visa applications were placed before an interdepartmental review committee consisting of representatives of the Visa Division, Immigration and Naturalization Service, FBI, Military Intelligence Division of the War Department, and the Navy Departments Office of Naval Intelligence. C. committed suicide in his bunker. d.) Japan targeted civilian populations when they dropped bombs on the Allied Powers. We are now in the midst of a war, not for conquest, not for vengeance, but for a world in which this Nation, and all that this Nation represents, will be safe for our children. B) join political organizations. In a December 1945 Gallup poll, only 5% of Americans were willing to accept more European immigrants than the nation had prior to the war. A. 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. B.It showed the United States clearly supported the Allies. Six million European Jews had been murdered. "We found financial self-reliance, which was new for us, after we went to work in the defense industry." C. American attempts to take over Japanese-controlled territory. Why was the United States reluctant to launch a land invasion of Japan? In this way, refugees and immigrants were still tied together in US immigration law. On December 11, 1941, Germany responded by declaring war on the United States, bringing American military forces into the European and Pacific conflicts on a global scale. B. less denouncement b.) designated certain areas as war zones. C. After the war, the United States a.) D) 290,000 people. B) the establishment of the U.N. Security Council. ", Why did the three major Alliesthe United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Unionwant to launch a "second front" in Europe? "Over 90% of us were relocated against our will to assembly centers during the war." c.) . He feared it would leave Britain vulnerable to a deadly German counter-offensive. A. to rescue U.S. prisoners of war who were being held captive there A) They were still unaware of the death camps' existence at that point. Many Americans feared that he was bringing the country closer to another war in Europe. C. an African American air squadron that conducted bombing raids over Europe. d.) D. a pact signed by the Soviet Union and the United States agreeing to first focus on the war in the Pacific before turning their attention to defeating Germany. While the Nazis took control of Germany and planned for war in Europe, Japan aggressively expanded its control of territory in east Asia by invading Manchuria in 1931 and China in 1937. As a result, relations with Latin-American nations improved substantially under Hoover, an anti-imperialist. None passed. D. Japanese Americans feared that Japan would try to punish them for siding with the United States in the war. Virtually none of the fighting had taken place on U.S. soil. Did not destroy all ships/ They included Jews who had survived the Holocaust and many others who were fleeing the Soviet control. What was the importance of the Lend-Lease Act? D. to destroy Japan's most important naval outpost and eliminate their ability to launch further airstrikes, Americans on the home front demonstrated their patriotism and helped combat shortages by C. Presumably, the agreement to safeguard the identity of these persons was intentional, as some of the interviewees worked for the Federal government and/or otherwise required anonymity in order to participate. B. A) punish Japan for carrying on the war. D. A. the federal government seized control of factories in order to increase war production. B. When World War I broke out across Europe in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the United States would remain neutral, and many Americans supported . D. It granted Germany a testing ground for new technology. Public anti-immigration sentiment remained strongin May 1938, only 23% of Americans were in favor of the immigration of German refugeesand these congressmen believed that legislation reducing immigration would prevail if the subject came up for debate. "We were forced by the government to move from California because they feared we might be capable of sabotage or espionage. 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