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1 .       In conferences with the Japanese ambassador during the spring of 1941, Secretary of State Cordell Hull insisted that Japan withdraw its troops from China and pledge not to engage in any further acts of aggression. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       President Roosevelt's greatest accomplishment as a wartime leader was his ability to inspire people with a sense of an overriding national purpose. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       Because of a crippling wartime labor strike in 1943, the federal government seized control of the nation's railroads for the duration of World War II. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       During World War II, federal spending nearly equaled New Deal expenditures from 1933 to 1940. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       The federal government paid for a large part of World War II's costs by increasing taxes. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       World War II caused a significant decline in the standard of living for American workers and farmers. 

 
 


7 .       The lives of African Americans improved during and just after World War II because President Roosevelt insisted that full democracy and equality at home were top wartime priorities. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       During World War II, African American soldiers were segregated into separate units. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       During World War II, the Allied campaign in Italy forced a collapse of the Vichy government and opened Germany to invasion from the south. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       President Roosevelt responded to the slaughter of Jews in the Nazi Holocaust during World War II by ordering the bombing of railroads leading to the death camps. [Hint]

 
 


11 .       America's World War II strategy in the Pacific called for a two-pronged island-hopping campaign terminating in the Philippines and Tokyo. [Hint]

 
 


12 .       During World War II, Soviet cooperation with Britain and the United States was usually grudgingly reluctant and hesitant. [Hint]

 
 


13 .       In the February 1945 Yalta Conference, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill agreed to Soviet annexation of a large section of eastern Poland. [Hint]

 
 


14 .       Soviet Premier Josef Stalin believed that Soviet domination of Poland was necessary to the future security of the Soviet Union. [Hint]

 
 






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