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True/False Quiz
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Question 1
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Open Hint for Question 1 in a new window		 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.
   
 
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Question 2
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Open Hint for Question 2 in a new window		 President Roosevelt's greatest accomplishment as a wartime leader was his ability to inspire people with a sense of an overriding national purpose.
   
 
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Question 3
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Open Hint for Question 3 in a new window		 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.
   
 
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Question 4
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Open Hint for Question 4 in a new window		 Wages and prices stabilized after April 1943.
   
 
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Question 5
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Open Hint for Question 5 in a new window		 The federal government paid for a large part of World War II's costs by increasing taxes.
   
 
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Question 6
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Open Hint for Question 6 in a new window		 World War II caused a significant decline in the standard of living for American workers and farmers.
   
 
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Question 7
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Open Hint for Question 7 in a new window		 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.
   
 
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Question 8
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Open Hint for Question 8 in a new window		 During World War II, African American soldiers were segregated into separate units.
   
 
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Question 9
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Open Hint for Question 9 in a new window		 About 50,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, only a minority of them American citizens, were interned during WWII.
   
 
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Question 10
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Open Hint for Question 10 in a new window		 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.
   
 
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Question 11
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Open Hint for Question 11 in a new window		 The crucial battle in American control of the Pacific was Port Moresby.
   
 
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Question 12
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Open Hint for Question 12 in a new window		 During World War II, Soviet cooperation with Britain and the United States was usually grudgingly reluctant and hesitant.
   
 
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Question 13
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Open Hint for Question 13 in a new window		 In the February 1945 Yalta Conference, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill agreed to Soviet annexation of a large section of eastern Poland.
   
 
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Question 14
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Open Hint for Question 14 in a new window		 Soviet Premier Josef Stalin believed that Soviet domination of Poland was necessary to the future security of the Soviet Union.
   
 
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