Period 7 AP Classroom UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Which of the following messages did the United States government most likely intend to
impart in the Second World War poster pictured above? - CORRECT ANSWER-
Encouragement of greater acceptance of African American workers ...
Period 7 AP Classroom UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Which of the following messages did the United States government most likely intend to
impart in the Second World War poster pictured above? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Encouragement of greater acceptance of African American workers in wartime industrial jobs
The bracero program encouraged - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Mexican workers to come to
the United States as temporary laborers from the 1940s to the 1960s
The Rosie the Riveter campaign during the Second World War encouraged women to -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- enter the labor force
Which of the following best explains the factor that prompted United States involvement in
military actions during the Second World War? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Japan
conducted a surprise attack on a United States military base
"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon
four essential human freedoms.
"The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.
"The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the
world.
"The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic
understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its
inhabitants—everywhere in the world.
"The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide
reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be
in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the
world."
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union address, January 1941
Roosevelt's speech was most likely intended to increase public support for - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- aiding the Allies in Europe during the Second World War
, American participation in the Second World War had which of the following major effects on
the home front? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A movement of women into factory work
"The Communists are in China to stay. And China's destiny is not [Chinese nationalist leader
Jiang Jieshi's] but theirs. In this unhappy dilemma, the United States should attempt to
prevent the disaster of a civil war through adjustment of the new alignment of power in China
by peaceful process. The desirable means to this end is to encourage the reform and
revitalization of the Kuomintang [Nationalist Party of China] so that it may survive as a
significant force in a coalition government [with the Chinese Communist Party]. If this fails,
we must limit our involvement with the Kuomintang and must commence some cooperation
with the Communists, the force destined to control China, in an effort to influence them
further into an independent position friendly to the United States. We are working against
time because, if the USSR enters the war against Japan and invades China before either of
these alternatives succeeds, t - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Negotiating a peaceful settlement
in China to limit Soviet influence after the Second World War
Which of the following best describes the experience of Americans of Japanese descent
during the Second World War? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- They were forced from their
homes and businesses on the West Coast into detention camps.
"Since the 1890s, despite the abolition of slavery and the three Reconstruction amendments
to the Constitution, Jim Crow segregation pervaded every aspect of American society. The
military was no exception. Following the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, black men
who volunteered for duty or were drafted were relegated to segregated divisions and combat
support roles, such as cook, quartermaster, and grave digger. The military was as segregated
as the Deep South.
"It was difficult for African Americans not to see the hypocrisy between conditions at home
and the noble war aims that President Franklin Roosevelt articulated in his famous 'Four
Freedoms' speech on January 6, 1941. And because of the gap between the promise and the
performance of American freedom when it came to race relations, many black people frankly
felt alienated from the war effort.
"Despite this discrimination, more than 2.5 million African Am - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
African American socioeconomic standing improved overall.
One major effect of the Second World War was increased opportunities for women in -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- industrial employment
Which of the following was a common experience on the United States home front during the
Second World War? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Rationing of basic consumer goods
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