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QUESTION 1

1. By 1944, it was increasingly obvious that Germany would lose WWII. What was the only group that did not fear German defeat?

		The SS.
		The Gestapo.
		The Luftwaffe.
		The Hitler Youth.

1 points

QUESTION 2

1. The largest of the Nazi death camps was

		Dachau.
		Auschwitz.
		Wolfsschanze.
		Sudetenland.

1 points

QUESTION 3

1. Klaus Von Stauffenberg, as part of a large group of German civilians and military officers,

		tried to assassinate Hitler.
		was head of Hitler's bodyguard.
		save Hitler's life.
		was head of the German Navy.

1 points

QUESTION 4

1. The turning point of the war in Europe was

		the fall of Moscow.
		German defeat at Stalingrad.
		the fall of Rome.
		the discovery of Dachau.

1 points

QUESTION 5

1. The Nazis gassed many Europeans they considered racially or politically undesirable. Which people were gassed at the death camps?

		Jews
		Russian POW's
		Homosexuals
		All of the above.

1 points

QUESTION 6

1. In Questions 6-10 translate the German words into English:

6. Volkssturm a. Air weapon

7. Blitzkrieg b. Wolf's Lair

8. Luftwaffe c. People's army

9. Wolfsschanze d. Night of broken glass

10. Kristallnachte e. Lightning war

	6. Volkssturm
	7. Blitzkrieg.
	8. Luftwaffe.
	9. Wolfsschanze.
	10. Kristallnachte

5 points

QUESTION 7

1. Hitler and Stalin signed a non-aggression pact on 23 August 1939. The "secret protocol" of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact was

		wheat from Germany.
		iron from Germany.
		half of Poland.
		none of the above.

1 points

QUESTION 8

1. The term Iron Curtain was penned by

		Norman Vincent Peal.
		Winston Churchill.
		Neville Chamberlain.
		Sherman Adams.

1 points

QUESTION 9

1. By 1945, segregation was firmly established in the US. The US city Blacks considered to be the most segregated was

		Atlanta.
		New Orleans.
		Birmingham.
		Memphis.

1 points

QUESTION 10

1. The 1948 presidential candidate of the Dixicrat Party was

		John L. Lewis.
		J. Strom Thurmond.
		Thomas E. Dewey.
		Leslie Groves.

1 points

QUESTION 11

1. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin was the most powerful, and reckless, member of the US government. His main target was

		the free press.
		the State Department.
		liberal Democrats.
		liberal Republicans.

1 points

QUESTION 12

1. Which initiative achieved the world's first sustained nuclear chain reaction inn 1942 at the University of Chicago?

		United States Mapping Mission
		Army Nuclear Power Program
		The Manhattan Project
		United States Army Art Program

1 points

QUESTION 13

1. Where did Americans first see the horrors of Nazi death camps?

		In newsreels at movie theaters.
		In pictorial magazines such as Life.
		On television in the 1950s.
		In borchures printed and distributed by the government.

1 points

QUESTION 14

1. Which of the following is true of the "Double V" campaign?

		It was a campaign waged by American labor leaders to convince men that work in defense-related industries was just as important in the war effort as military service.
		It was an attempt by African-American leaders to force the nation to confront the parallels between the racist doctrines of the Nazis and racial segregation in the United States.
		It was an effort by leaders of the women's movement for working women to receive pay equal to that of their male counterparts.
		It was a propaganda campaign undertaken by the War Information Bureau to convince the American public that the war in Europe was just as important as the war in the Pacific.

1 points

QUESTION 15

1. Which of the following was used as a reason to keep the armed forces racially segregated throughout the Second World War?

		The commitment of African Americans to the war effort was in question.
		The integration of military installations would challenge segregation by law in the southern states and possible provoke racial violence.
		Because African Americans were the only service personnel who could not be assigned to combat duty, they had to be assigned to all-black support units.
		African Americans were not considered citizens of the United States, and therefore had to be separated from other military personnel.

1 points

QUESTION 16

1. What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?

		The industrialization of Latin America.
		A democratic Middle East.
		The economic recovery of Europe.
		A communist-free China.

1 points

QUESTION 17

1. An obstacle to relations between the United States and Third World countries in the 1950s was

		the segregation practices in the United States.
		the bumbling diplomatic style of John Foster Dulles.
		the opposition of the United States to the Soviet use of force in Eastern Europe.
		the unwillingness of the United States to extend foreign aid to Third World nations.

1 points

QUESTION 18

1. What made William Levitt famous?

		The design of the modern mobile home.
		Modular home construction.
		On-site assemble of factory-built homes.
		The adaption of assembly-line methods to the process of home construction.

1 points

QUESTION 19

1. How did Senator Joseph McCarthy eventually contribute to his own downfall?

		He charged that fellow senators were communist dupes.
		He took on the U.S. Army in front of millions of television viewers.
		He appeared on the Senate floor in an obviously inebriated state.
		He publicaly stated that President Eisenhower was a "communist sympathizer."

1 points

QUESTION 20

1. The Supreme Court's decision in Smith v. Allwright benefited African Americans by

		ending racially discriminatory hiring practices.
		desegregating the nation's public schools.
		desegregating all public accommodations.
		outlawing whites-only primaries.

1 points

QUESTION 21

1. Which of the following is true of White Citizen's Councils?

		Made up primarily of white power elite within Southern communities, they denounced the racist beliefs of the Ku Klux Klan.
		Members of these organizations attempted to implement the Brown decision in a peaceful and orderly manner.
		Made up primarily of rural whites, these organizations advocated the violent overthrow of the government of the United States.
		Support by white professionals and business people, they used their economic power against African American civil rights activists.