8/7/2019 Weeks Eleven and Twelve Assignments

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Weeks Eleven and Twelve Assignments

1. World War II required __________________________ as well as production.

2. To cover the wars huge cost, President Roosevelt preferred raising taxes to

______________________.

3. The federal government paid for about 45 percent of its costs from 1939 to 1946 with_____________ revenues.

4. During World War II, the ____________________ experienced the fastest rate of urbangrowth in the United States.

5. Many men opposed the opportunity of women to find __________________ duringWorld War II.

6. The most volatile social issue ignited by the war was _____________________________________ participation in the military.

7. A. ______________________ __________________ led a movement to protestdiscrimination in defense work which led to the development of the Fair EmploymentPractices Committee.

8. In the __________________program, Mexico agreed to provide seasonal farm workersto the southwestern United States in exchange for a promise by the U.S government notto draft them into military service.

9. Unlike African Americans, ___________________ servicemen were integrated intoregular units in the United States military.

10.More than 60 percent of the Japanese internees during World War II were U.S.__________________.

11.The Royal Air Force struck by ___________________ and the U.S. Air Force struck by______________.

12.The chief subject of the Tehran meeting was the planned invasion of_________________ and a _________________ offensive across Eastern Europe.

13.At the Yalta conference, the big three agreed to divide _____________________ up intohalves with the western portion controlled by the Allies and the eastern portion controlledby the Russians.

14.The Yalta agreements have been criticized for giving Eastern Europe over to__________________ domination.

15._________________ _____________________ _________________ was primarilyresponsible for ending the Great Depression.

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Week Twelve

1. The defeat of Japan and Germany in World War II created a ____________________________________ that sucked the Soviet Union and the United States into anunrelenting war of words fed by clashing strategic interests.

2. One of the biggest challenges that Harry Truman faced after taking over for FDR wastransitioning the nation from _____________________ to _____________________.

3. Americans born during the postwar period composed what came to be known as the_______________ ___________________ generation, and that oversize generationwould become a dominant force in the nations social and cultural life.

4. The U.S. economy survived demobilization through the use of several economicshock absorbers. One proof that the U.S. economy held strong during this period wasthe increase of the __________________ __________________ _______________to $347 billion by 1952, Trumans last full year in office

5. One of the biggest problems during the post war period was the rise of inflationcaused by major ___________________ increases.

6. The Central Intelligence Agency was created by the ___________________________________________ Act in 1947.

7. The Nazis who were accused of war crimes were tried at ______________________the site of annual Nazi rallies.

8. The government-sponsored ________________ of the German Nazis, the ItalianFascists, and the Japanese imperialists focused attention on the need for the UnitedStates to improve its own _____________ relations and to provide for equal rights

under the law.

9. Desegregating the _____________________ was, Truman claimed, the greatestthing that ever happened to America.

10.The first Major League Baseball player to cross the color line was______________________ ______________________.