D. D. universal education. World War I was the deadliest conflict until that point in human history, claiming tens of millions of casualties on all sides. Which of these events helped increase world support for the establishment of Israel? preventing Soviet intervention in the region. forcing Italy to surrender and change sides. d.) C. In Article 2, Principle 1, what does sovereign mean? Which series of events is arranged in the correct chronological order? At the Potsdam Conference, the 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. After the United States entered World War II Congress acted to provide for the expedited naturalization of noncitizens serving honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces. B) save lives. They were followed in June 1940 by Italy, in June 1941 by Russia, and in December 1941 by Japan and the USA - though the conflict as a whole had actually began in July 1937 with war between China and Japan. D) more than 20 years. published this 12-page pamphlet after the U.S. had entered World War II. A. a group of volunteer fighter pilots who fought the Japanese in the Pacific. Those who have committed crimes against peace, war crimes, or non-political crimes outside of their country of refuge, are not eligible for refugee status. A) Spanish Civil War and World War II The War Refugee Board To free Australia from Japanese occupation work on the development of an atomic bomb. D) protect German Jews from anti-Semitic violence. B. the economy failed to improve. In 1958 and 1966, presidents Eisenhower and Johnson issued parole directives to aid 30,700 Hungarian refugees and nearly 500,000 Cuban refugees fleeing their nations revolutions, reclassifying these refugees as permanent US residents. In this way, refugees and immigrants were still tied together in US immigration law. C.It endorsed national self-determination for the post-war world. World War II was just six years long but surprisingly, it had two presidents ruling the United States during its course. A. At this time, documentary requirements were also increased: applicants now needed two financial affidavits instead of one. The United States did not sign the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention, instead passing its own set of laws which also aided specific groups of refugees for limited periods of time. The neutral USA entered World War II only after many months of argument in Congress and after the attack on Pearl Harbor. purchasing government war bonds. A) one million people. What is gangsterism? A. D) Germany was forced to fight a war on two fronts. Why did the US join the Second World war in 1941? B. "When the Japanese attacked, most factories were already set up to produce for the war effort." Sicily and the fall of Mussolini, July-August 1943. ", b.) d.) 1,584cc air-cooled OHV flat 4-cylinder engine Single Solex 34 PICT 3 carburetor 46bhp at 4,000rpm 4-speed manual transmission 4-wheel independent suspension 4-wheel hydraulic drum brakes *Lots of dealer installed options *Complete with top, side curtains, and wooden floormats *Nary a more perfect summer ride exists The Type 181The Thing Volkswagen's "Thing" had its roots in a military . What events is the preamble referring to in this excerpt? They were chosen randomly. founded the United Service Organizations. What ultimately prevented the Nazis from conquering Great Britain in 1940? b.) The preamble mentions "the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind." citizens." After World War II, the American people continued to oppose increased immigration. C. 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. Choose which phrase was a factor in President Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. Why do you think Roosevelt compared the Germans to gangsters? A large number of African Americans left there to work in shipyards on the West Coast. Virtually none of the fighting had taken place on U.S. soil. A. Between 1980 and 2018, more than 3,000,000 refugees have been resettled in the United States. a.) D. WACs did important jobs, including driving trucks and clerical work, for the United States Army. Throughout the 1930s, most Americans opposed changing or adjusting the Johnson-Reed Act, fearing that immigrants, including those fleeing persecution, would compete for scarce jobs and burden public services in the midst of the Great Depression. They were the largest population centers in Japan. We are going to win the war and we are going to win the peace that follows. A. b.) Pete Seeger and Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly) recorded original songs for the "Dear Mr. President" interviews. B. d.) Dec. 7. A.Germany was able to take over much of Europe by 1940. helping drive them out of the Soviet Union. A. The IRO also operated the International Tracing Service whose purpose was to help survivors find their families and learn the fate of loved ones. The overall impact of such public policies was almost incalculable, but it certainly aided returning veterans to better themselves and to begin forming families and having children in unprecedented numbers. D. B) the creation of a five-member Security Council. "As the war continued, the economy weakened, leaving most working American families poor." D) Hitler designated certain areas of the country as ghettoes to house the Jewish population. Fears of infiltration and espionage led to additional restrictions on visa applicants. What was the effect of Hitler's blitzkrieg tactics? To show unity among world powers They were historically significant. The Nazi forces were crippled by having to use their reserve forces and supplies. B. a pact signed by Great Britain, France, and the United States agreeing to declare war on Germany and divide its lands after the war What did the Nazi-Soviet pact accomplish for Germany? B. How did the bombing of Pearl Harbor lead to the entry of the United States into a war against Germany? In exchange, refugees must abide by the laws and regulations of the country of asylum. Audie Murphy famously received the Congressional Medal of Honor for A. B. To invade and occupy Italy 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. The United Nations was formed after World War II as the successor to which failed organization? Truman's advisors were concerned that Great Britain might claim territory in Asia if fighting continued. "We found financial self-reliance, which was new for us, after we went to work in the defense industry." US consulates in Nazi-occupied territory shut down in July 1941. Mario likes diving\underline{\text{diving}}diving best of all sports. supporting the United States in the war against Japan The American forces liberated Paris and much of occupied France. On December 8, Joseph Goebbels described Adolf Hitler as exceptionally happy when he learned the news. The United States long reserved its most lucrative occupations for an elite class of white men. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the president of the United States for the majority of this time, from 1933 to 1945. D) publish material opposing the government. The 1941 recordings were made as a part of the the Library of Congress' Radio Research Project. D. D. Japan feeling threatened by the U.S. presence in Asia and the Pacific. a.) Polling also showed that more Americans supported immigration limits on Jewish DPs than on Germans who had left their homes fleeing Soviet occupation. In most cases, the recordings were digitized by Library of Congress staff directly from the discs on which they were originally recorded. Students consider how what they've learned about the rise of the Nazi Party influences their thinking about the essay prompt and practice making inferences. The War Manpower Commission, a Federal Agency established to increase the manufacture of war materials, had the . C. A large number of African Americans migrated there from the South to work in the factories. "We began a civil rights campaign to achieve both a victory in Europe and a victory over racism in the U.S.", Choose the statement that best reflects the experiences of Japanese Americans after the United States entered World War II. He believed a joint offensive with the Soviets through Eastern Europe would be far more effective. D) Soviet Union proposed free elections throughout Eastern Europe. Explore a timeline of events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust. African American workers were paid the same wages as whites. As a consequence, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and American women became more aggressive in trying to win their full freedoms and civil rights as guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution during the postwar era. 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 D. Many Americans believed the Soviet Union posed a greater threat than the Nazis or the Japanese. A) the Axis pushed back the Allied advance from the Soviet Union. U.S. and British forces struck a major blow against the Nazis' capacity to make war by They had significant military value that helped to keep Japan in the war. d.) 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. a.) "Defense contracts during the war were undesirable, because they required that businesses pay huge upfront costs." Three years after the end of the war, there were still a substantial number of displaced persons in Europe. 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. The rescue worker wouldn't leave the building without the little boy. "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. B. the economy failed to improve. it effectively destroyed Japan's ability to launch airstrikes. How did the countrys reasons for fighting the war, as articulated by Roosevelt, differ from those of Germany. classified them as enemy combatants. A. Roosevelt placed an embargo on Japan. b.) American soldiers could not get close enough to Japan to launch an effective invasion. Small but significant named World War II US Navy Corpsman grouping named to Wallace H. Fritsch, who served on Peleliu during World War II. B. a victory by Filipino soldiers over the Japanese. After Germanys annexation of Austria and with the advice of the State Department, a group of Jewish congressmen met and decided not to introduce any new legislation to expand immigration to aid Jewish refugees. Soldiers began to come home and find peacetime jobs. Life in the United States began to return to normal. went through a period of economic instability. . Industry stopped . 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. B) She thinks suffering always comes to a close. "Dear Mr. President," Nashville, Tennessee, January or February "Dear Mr. President," New York, New York, January or February Letter from Alan Lomax to Wilhelmina Waters, April 3, 1942. B. boost the morale of troops by sending popular entertainers overseas. It would be difficult to make them surrender. c.) The IRO ceased operations on January 31, 1952, as most of its work had been taken over by other organizations, most significantly the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, an office created in 1951. A) the passing of the War Powers Acts. A) the participation of the United States. Wallace would later become a crucial part of the US Navy, and serve as a Corpsman in the Pacific Theater. We are now to a certain extent protected on our flanks. A. B. cooperating in trials to bring former Nazis to justice a.) "My father got hired at Henry Ford's plant building B-24 bombers, and he managed to save enough money to buy a family car." 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. c.) On December 9, 1941two days after the attackUS President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the American people on the radio. The photographs and graphs in this gallery support the conclusion that C. Americans suffered heavy losses at Pearl Harbor. Between 1933 and 1941, for example, roughly 118,000 German quota slots that could have been used went unfilled. The vote was bipartisan and was not close (293-41). (This happened just as the systematic, mass murder of the Jews began with the German invasion of the Soviet Union.) B. Nazi Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941. D) the state sponsored attack on German Jews in 1938. B) setting up a National Holocaust Museum. When World War II ended, the United States was in better economic condition than any other country in the world. . C. B. The new law reflected anti-Catholic, antisemitic sentiment in the country. Dwight D. Eisenhower was made Supreme Commander of Allied Forces following He died of a brain hemorrhage on April 12,1945. President Harry S. Truman favored a liberal immigration policy toward displaced persons (DPs). A) gathered widespread support for the creation of a Jewish homeland. A combination of presidential directives and congressional legislation aided other specific groups of refugees. 3, Two days later, on December 11, 1941, Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States, and Benito Mussolini of Italy followed suit. The United States did not sign the 1951 Refugee Convention. But within two years of the end of the war, new challenges and perceived threats had arisen to erode that confidence. Almost every country in the world participated in World War II.Most were neutral at the beginning, but only a relatively few nations remained neutral to the end. The Vietnam War is the commonly used name for the Second Indochina War, 1954-1975. Approximately 80,000 Jewish DPs entered the United States between 1948 and 1952 under the Displaced Persons Act. B) victory over the Axis Powers and the Soviet Union "President Roosevelt nationalized the shipping and shipbuilding industries." . "We began a civil rights campaign to achieve both a victory in Europe and a victory over racism in the U.S." D. Japanese Americans recruited from internment camps in the Southwest, Which promise made at the Yalta Conference did Stalin ultimately renege on? How does Donne's tone in this meditation support the point he is trying to make? Yet the United States would not enter the war until it was attacked directly. D. was assassinated by a group of his own generals. After World War II and the Holocaust, the United States and the international community recognized that refugees and displaced persons merited special consideration and should be dealt with separately from immigrants, who are moving to a new country to seek a better life. A) officially recognizing the state of Israel. A) the American defense industry declined after the war. In the following sentences, underline the gerund. After World War II began in 1939, the State Department cautioned consular officials to exercise particular care in screening applicants: "In view of the international situation, it is essential that all aliens seeking admission into the United States, including both immigrants and nonimmigrants be examined with the greatest care. Visa applicants were required to submit moral affidavits, attesting to their identities and good conduct, from several responsible disinterested persons, in addition to financial affidavits. B) about 10 years c.) "Corporations and business owners used the assembly line to tackle production on a massive scale. A) victory over fear and want, as described in the Four Freedoms speech d) Americans experienced a series of military losses. A.It stated the United States would only accept an unconditional surrender of Germany. The Convention does not specify how signatories determine or assign refugee status. Six million European Jews had been murdered. d.) Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered World War II and financed the Allied war effort, and helped defeat Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the European theater. C. make certain that the United States would stay neutral. b.) The principal belligerents were the Axis powersGermany, Italy, and Japanand the AlliesFrance, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. B. the Munich Pact This enabled Roosevelt to establish what became known as the . Which policy best demonstrates appeasement during the 1930s? The sketch shown above is of "The Unconquered People," and describes the European resistance to Adolph Hitler and Germany on the part of . Immigrants from the Western Hemisphere, needed for US labor, were non-quota arrivals, exempted from the quota system. b.) B. Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. The relationship between the Allies was complicated by The Act, which authorized 200,000 displaced persons to enter the United States, mortgaged the still-extant 1924 immigration quotas, allowing up to 50% of future quota spaces to be used on behalf of displaced persons, with few exceptions. created the Office of Price Administration. Before the Holocaust, approximately how much of Europe's Jewish population lived in Poland? A) less than 5 years Through the government's bracero program, I believe the admission of these persons will add to the strength and energy of the nation. Still, Congress delayed action. 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. C. More expansion A. individual liberties d.) After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States declared war against Japan and entered World War II. Included in this presentation are Pete Seeger's "Dear Mr. President" and "The Martins and Coys.". B. the Tripartite Pact ", Choose the statement that describes an economic consequence of the United States as an "arsenal of democracy." The war ended with the Axis powers' unconditional surrender in 1945. D.Did not destroy all aircraft carriers/ did not declare war first. a.) The image and reality of overall economic prosperity--and the upward mobility it provided for many white Americans--was not lost on those who had largely been excluded from the full meaning of the American Dream, both before and after the war. The legislation never made it out of committee for a vote. This was the first time refugees gained distinct legal status under international law. D. intercept enemy intelligence and relay it to the troops on the frontlines. b.) It would allow the Allies to gain control of the precious oil fields in the Middle East. When World War I broke out across Europe in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the United States would remain neutral, and many Americans supported . In his 1947 State of the Union, Truman stated, We are dealing with a human problem, a world tragedy. In his 1948 State of the Union, he argued for suitable legislation at once so that this nation may do its share in caring for homeless and suffering refugees of all faiths. Pete Seeger playing banjo, 1948. Did not destroy all aircraft carriers/ did not declare war In particular, World War II led many women to take jobs in defense plants and factories around the country. How was the federal government able to borrow money from U.S. citizens? . General Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe because C. to provide support to the Filipino rebels there who were putting up resistance to the Japanese Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C. / [WKL]. was able to return its focus to domestic issues. c.) Which argument sums up the difference between isolationists and interventionists regarding aid to the Allies? A. more denouncement Also included are biographies of the fieldworkers who conducted and arranged the interviews, complete transcripts of the interviews, related manuscripts, and original disc sleeves. C) Allied Powers agreed to divide Germany into four zones of occupation. This online presentation also includes a set of interviews conducted in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. To seize islands vital to Japanese transportation and communication. ", d.) 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. 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. Planning for the post-World War II world began before the United States even entered the conflict. 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. Although the war began with Nazi Germany's attack on Poland in September 1939, the United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. . And what we all have learned is this: There is no such thing as security for any Nationor any individualin a world ruled by the principles of gangsterism. A second series of interviews, called "Dear Mr. President," was recorded in January and February 1942. The 1924 law capped quota immigration at 164,667 people per year. The US military was not prepared to fight a global war in 1941. avenging the attack on Pearl Harbor D. 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. A. the Atlantic Charter D. 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