Chapter 23

Quiz for Chapter Twenty-Three America in Global Context: The Scales of War: Losses and Gains During World War II

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Question 1

Which of the following conclusions can be supported by the evidence presented in Figure 23.3?A. The relatively low number of deaths among the Allied powers contributed to their victory in 1945.
B. The Allies won the war in large part due to the United States’s incredible industrial output.
C. Only those countries located far away from the war’s action were spared its incredibly high casualties.
D. The war effectively ended the Great Depression in Europe and Asia as well as in the United States.

Question 2

The data presented in these two graphs help us understand which of the following questions?A. Why did Adolf Hitler decide to pursue policies that led to the extermination of 6 million Jews and 6 million other “undesirables”?
B. Why did the United States elect to avoid direct participation in the war until after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941?
C. Why did the U.S. government decide to intern Japanese Americans during the war but not Italian Americans or German Americans?
D. Why did Joseph Stalin repeatedly demand that the United States and Great Britain open a second European front by invading France?

Question 3

Which of the following was the primary reason that the United States was able to increase its gross domestic product so dramatically while the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, France, and Germany could not?A. The United States lost many fewer people during the war.
B. The United States was the only nation to be fully industrialized at the war’s outset.
C. The United States was neither occupied nor fighting a war on its own soil.
D. U.S. labor unions made a no-strike pledge for the duration of the war.