1. which of the following was not a way that the civilian population was affected by world war ii?
choose one answer.
a. food surpluses
b. blackouts
c. longer work hours
d. air raid drills
2.
how did the role of women in the workplace change during world war ii?
choose one answer.
a. more women took management level jobs during world war ii.
b. the role of women in the workplace did not change during world war ii.
c. six million women went to work in factory jobs that were left when male workers went off to war.
d. more women took on clerical and secretarial jobs during world war ii.
3.
why did the soviet union want the u. s. and great britain to start a second front in europe?
choose one answer.
a. the soviets saw a weakness in german defenses in western europe.
b. the soviets could very easily support an allied offensive in western europe.
c. the soviets hoped that the u. s. and great britain could knock italy out of the war.
d. a second front would force germany to pull troops away from the eastern front.
4. why did the allies begin a bombing campaign against the the german homeland?
choose one answer.
a. the allies wanted to destroy the german means of production.
b. the allies wanted to kill civilians to damage morale in the german army.
c. the allies hoped that the bombing campaign would kill adolf hitler.
d. the allies wanted to inflict as much damage to germany as possible
5. how did the bushido beliefs of the japanese effect the number of casualties in the pacific theater?
choose one answer.
a. bushido taught compassion to an enemy, so casualties were low.
b. bushido taught japanese soldiers that war was wrong, so casualties were low.
c. bushido taught japanese soldiers to fight to the death, leading to extremely high casualties.
d. bushido taught self-preservation, so japanese surrendered in large numbers.
6. which of the following was not a reason that president truman decided to use the atomic bomb to end world war ii?
choose one answer.
a. dropping the bomb would demonstrate the power of the bomb to the soviet union.
b. dropping the bomb would show the japanese that further resistance was useless.
c. the bomb could end the war quickly without high american casualties.
d. dropping the bomb would introduce the world to nuclear warfare.
7.
restricting the expansion of soviet communism was called
choose one answer.
a. containment.
b. restriction.
c. communism restraint.
d. expansionism.
8.
the truman doctrine is best exemplified by
choose one answer.
a. sending financial aid to to western europe to rebuild struggling economies.
b. sending military aid to greece and turkey to defeat communit movements there.
c. sending humanitarian aid to berlin after it had been blockaded by the soviets.
d. expanding the buildup of america's nuclear arsenal to confront the soviets directly.