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HY 121 Final ExamRoosevelt's Four Freedoms - correct answer ✔✔Pres Franklin D. Roosevelt during his Jan 6, 1941, State
of the Union Address "essential human freedoms" freedom of speech and religion, freedom to worship
God in one's own way, freedom from want: most ambiguous, and freedom from fear (a longing for peace
and desire for security); fifth freedom: free enterprise. Not by FDR but by national association of
manufacturers (freedom of choice)
Hitler's Final Solution/Holocaust - correct answer ✔✔Adolf Hitler, systematic racist attempt of
extermination and culmination of Nazi belief that Germans were the master race, destined to rule the
world. the mass extermination of "undesirable" peoples, slavs, gypsies, homosexuals, and above all,
Jews; 6 million Jews of Europe died in death camps, 1945, German concentration camps; more than a
million other "undesirables" killed
Rosie the Riveter - correct answer ✔✔the female industrial laborer depicted as muscular and self-reliant
in Norman Rockwell's famous magazine cover, featured her as a symbol of women's strength, 1944,
civilian labor force, women made up 1/3 of labor force. 350,000 served auxiliary military units
G.I. Bill of Rights - correct answer ✔✔(aka service mens readjustment act): the legislation that rewarded
and provided money for education and other benefits to military personnel returning from WWII and
prevented unemployment, most far reaching peace of social legislation, service men, shaped society,
1946, 1 million vets went to college ½ of its enrollment, 4 mill received home mortgages (post war
suburban housing boom)
American Indians during WWII - correct answer ✔✔some 25,000 served in the army. Brought closer to
mainstream American life by leaving reservations for wartime jobs and attending college after war.
Insisting that the US lacked the authority to draft Indian men into the army, the Iroquois issued their own
declaration of war against the Axis Powers. Thousands left reservations some took advantage of the GI
bill, many did not return to the reservations
US propaganda on Japanese - correct answer ✔✔gov propaganda and war films portrayed the Japanese
foe as rats, dogs, gorillas, and snakes, bestial and subhuman, depicted American's as self-indulgent
people contaminated by ethnic and racial diversity as opposed to the racially "pure" Japanese. Prejudice
remained against Japan because of the attack on Pearl Harbor. American's viewed Japanese ethnicity as
a potential spy
, Japanese-American internment - correct answer ✔✔Japanese American citizens in the West Coast, FDR
executive order 9066 in Feb 1942 ordered relocation to camps, authorities removed more than 110,000
men, women, and children to camps far from their homes, nearly 2/3 of them American citizens. The
order did not apply to people of Japanese descent in Hawaii. They lived in horse stables, shacks, and
barracks and were watched constantly, no medical buildings, ate in mess halls, decorated their homes,
grew veggies, had sports clubs and art classes. Senator Robert Taft spoke against it. Courts did nothing to
help. Hugo Black favored it. Bill Clinton and Congress gave $20,000 to compensate victims in 1988; policy
adopted by the Roosevelt administration in 1942; it was the largest violation of American civil liberties in
the 10th century
Bombing for Hiroshima - correct answer ✔✔on August 6, 1945 an American plane dropped an atomic
bomb that detonated over Hiroshima, Japan, a target chosen because almost alone among major
Japanese cities, it had not yet suffered damage, nearly every building was destroyed, approx. 70,000
died immediately
Bombing of Nagasaki - correct answer ✔✔on Aug 9,1945 the US exploded a 2nd bomb killing 70,000
people, American plane, American attack on Japan, atomic bombs released radiation. 140,000 died
overall. Soviet Union declared war on Japan 1 week later to which Japan surrender
Freedom Train - correct answer ✔✔originated in 1946 with the department of justice, it opened to the
public in Philadelphia, Americans were rededicated to American values by taking the freedom pledge
and adding names to the freedom scroll, Sept 16, 1947. it was a traveling exhibition of 133 historical
documents bedecked in red, white, and blue, embarked on a 16 mo tour took it more than 300 American
cities among the documents were the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, and the
Gettysburg Address, Truman endorsed it. most elaborate peacetime patriotic campaign in history.
Attracted 3.5 million visitors
Policy of containment - correct answer ✔✔"a policy that the United States committed itself to
preventing any further expansion of Soviet power" early in 1946 in his famous Long Telegram from
Moscow, an American diplomat advised the Truman administration that Soviets could not be dealt with
as a normal gov. the communist ideology drove them to try to expand their power throughout the world.
He laid the foundation for the US to prevent any further expansion of the soviet power. He was a
diplomat
iron curtain - correct answer ✔✔Winston Churchill (Britain's former wartime prime minister) declared
that this had descended across Europe, partitioning (splitting) the free West from the communist East,
early 1946, Fulton, MO, it was meant to prolong the struggle between the US and Soviets
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