Hist 173 Final Exam Questions
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Japan's military leaders called their own imperial vision of Asia ANS✔✔ the Greater East Asia Co-
Prosperity Sphere.
The policy of "appeasement" became infamous after British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
agreed to the MunichPact in 1938; this pact allowed Nazi Germany to occupy what region?
ANS✔✔ the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
The vast majority of Nazi Germany's war casualties occurred ANS✔✔ on the Eastern Front.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence? ANS✔✔ Executive Order
8802; Attack on Pearl Harbor; Battle of Midway; Bombing of Hiroshima
Icon of US propaganda campaign to encourage women to work in war-related industries: ANS✔✔
Rosie the Riveter
The neutrality legislation of the 1930s was based on the assumption that the United States could
keep out of war by ANS✔✔ banning arms sales to countries at war.
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
"I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve." ANS✔✔
Admiral Yamamoto, 1941
To assist Great Britain after the fall of France in 1940, President Roosevelt ANS✔✔ devised ways
to provide aid without going to war, such as Destroyers for Bases and the Lend Lease program.
The battle that turned the tide against the Japanese navy in the Pacific in June 1942: ANS✔✔
Battle of Midway
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By the end of the war, Americans' average income ANS✔✔ jumped to nearly twice what it had
been in 1939.
The most decorated unit in U.S. military history was the: ANS✔✔ 442nd Regimental Combat
Team
For most of the war, the "Big Three" allied leaders were ANS✔✔ Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill
During the war, women workers experienced all of the following EXCEPT ANS✔✔ less stress at
home as they were relieved of their domestic responsibilities.
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
"Men, I would have never asked for you if you weren't good. I have nothing but the best in my army.
I don't care what color you are, so long as you go up there and kill those Kraut sonsabitches."
ANS✔✔ Gen. Patton to the 761st Tank Battalion
June 6, 1944, was the date of ANS✔✔ Operation Overlord (D-Day), the Allied attack across the
English Channel at Normandy.
The Japanese goal in bombing Pearl Harbor was to ANS✔✔ weaken U.S. naval forces and gain
time to establish a defensive perimeter in the Pacific
Which of the following does NOT describe an aspect of the impact of World War II on American
society? ANS✔✔ Women and minorities felt resentment at being barred from military service.
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
"Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was
suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." ANS✔✔ FDR
War Message
The fascist movements of Italy, Germany, and Japan embraced all the following ideals except
ANS✔✔ the abolition of private property.
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