HY 121 Chapter 22 Inquisitive
Identify the Statements that are accurate with regard to the Manhattan Project. - correct answer
✔✔Correct:
- While serving as vice president, Harry Truman had no knowledge of the existence of atomic bombs
- Its purpose was to discover ways to access the potentially vast amounts of energy contained within the
atom
- A nuclear bomb was tested in New Mexico before its use in Japan
Incorrect:
- Albert Einstein lobbied unsuccessfully to prevent its formation
In a fireside chat in December 1940, President Roosevelt announced that the United States would
become the "great arsenal of democracy". What did he mean by that phrase? - correct answer
✔✔Roosevelt was referring to the United States providing Britain and China with military supplies.
For whites in America during the wartime years, freedom was viewed as a goal to be achieved, whereas
for Black Americans, freedom was seen as a possession to be defended. - correct answer ✔✔False
Inspired by exaggerated fears of a Japanese invasion of the West Coast of the United States, the military
persuaded FDR to issue Executive Order 9066, which ordered the relocation of all persons of Japanese
descent from the West Coast. Select on the map the states where Japanese-Americans were interned in
camps during World War II - correct answer ✔✔- California
- Arizona
- Idaho
- Utah
- Wyoming
- Colorado
- Arkansas
Place these important events of World War II in chronological order. - correct answer ✔✔1. Japan
occupies Dutch-controlled Indonesia, seizing its oil fields.
, 2. British and American forces in North Africa compel the surrender of the Germans.
3. 200,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers land in Normandy in northwestern France,
commencing the most massive sea-land operation in history.
4. American planes drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Four Freedoms- freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom from want, and freedom from
fear- became a slogan of President Roosevelt's and a culturally important idea in postwar America.
However, these freedoms were not experienced equally by all Americans. What are some reasons that
Black Americans were denied the Four Freedoms? - correct answer ✔✔Correct:
- Because Black Americans had a long history of oppression and hatred from other Americans.
- Because white Americans wanted to maintain their control and power over Black Americans.
Incorrect:
- Because African Americans did not believe in the Four Freedoms
- Because Black Americans did not pursue these freedoms through the legal system.
Identify the economic goals of the National Resource Planning Board (NRPB) - correct answer
✔✔Correct:
- to expand Social Security
- to improve access to health care
- to use government spending to secure full employment of men as a way to redistribute income
Incorrect:
- to reform the institutions of capitalism with greater government controls
Identify the statements that describe the Office of War Information (OWI) - correct answer ✔✔Correct:
- It sought to avoid the nationalist excesses of the First World war
- The OWI was a useful tool for Republican conservatives to advance their own political messaging.
Incorrect:
- In order to modernize and appeal to a younger audience, the OWI tried not to use traditional images
and slogans.
- The OWI was a useful tool for conservatives to advance their own political messaging
Identify the Statements that are accurate with regard to the Manhattan Project. - correct answer
✔✔Correct:
- While serving as vice president, Harry Truman had no knowledge of the existence of atomic bombs
- Its purpose was to discover ways to access the potentially vast amounts of energy contained within the
atom
- A nuclear bomb was tested in New Mexico before its use in Japan
Incorrect:
- Albert Einstein lobbied unsuccessfully to prevent its formation
In a fireside chat in December 1940, President Roosevelt announced that the United States would
become the "great arsenal of democracy". What did he mean by that phrase? - correct answer
✔✔Roosevelt was referring to the United States providing Britain and China with military supplies.
For whites in America during the wartime years, freedom was viewed as a goal to be achieved, whereas
for Black Americans, freedom was seen as a possession to be defended. - correct answer ✔✔False
Inspired by exaggerated fears of a Japanese invasion of the West Coast of the United States, the military
persuaded FDR to issue Executive Order 9066, which ordered the relocation of all persons of Japanese
descent from the West Coast. Select on the map the states where Japanese-Americans were interned in
camps during World War II - correct answer ✔✔- California
- Arizona
- Idaho
- Utah
- Wyoming
- Colorado
- Arkansas
Place these important events of World War II in chronological order. - correct answer ✔✔1. Japan
occupies Dutch-controlled Indonesia, seizing its oil fields.
, 2. British and American forces in North Africa compel the surrender of the Germans.
3. 200,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers land in Normandy in northwestern France,
commencing the most massive sea-land operation in history.
4. American planes drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Four Freedoms- freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom from want, and freedom from
fear- became a slogan of President Roosevelt's and a culturally important idea in postwar America.
However, these freedoms were not experienced equally by all Americans. What are some reasons that
Black Americans were denied the Four Freedoms? - correct answer ✔✔Correct:
- Because Black Americans had a long history of oppression and hatred from other Americans.
- Because white Americans wanted to maintain their control and power over Black Americans.
Incorrect:
- Because African Americans did not believe in the Four Freedoms
- Because Black Americans did not pursue these freedoms through the legal system.
Identify the economic goals of the National Resource Planning Board (NRPB) - correct answer
✔✔Correct:
- to expand Social Security
- to improve access to health care
- to use government spending to secure full employment of men as a way to redistribute income
Incorrect:
- to reform the institutions of capitalism with greater government controls
Identify the statements that describe the Office of War Information (OWI) - correct answer ✔✔Correct:
- It sought to avoid the nationalist excesses of the First World war
- The OWI was a useful tool for Republican conservatives to advance their own political messaging.
Incorrect:
- In order to modernize and appeal to a younger audience, the OWI tried not to use traditional images
and slogans.
- The OWI was a useful tool for conservatives to advance their own political messaging
