Why did Truman decide to use the atomic bomb against Japan? A) ...

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Question 1

What steps did the U.S. government take to build support for the war effort?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

How did U.S. officials respond to Nazi persecution of Jews before the war? After the war had begun?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

Discuss the opposition of the American public to intervention in Europe during the 1930s.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 4

Describe the rise of Nazi Germany from the late 1920s to 1940.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 5

Why did Truman decide to use the atomic bomb against Japan?
 
  A) He hoped to avoid an invasion of Japan.
  B) He wanted to test the weapons impact.
  C) He wanted to frighten the British.
  D) He wanted to demonstrate his strength as a leader.

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Answer 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  The United States mounted a propaganda drive to promote support for the war effort.
  


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  The Office of War Information (OWI) coordinated morale-boosting and censorship initiatives.
  


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  The OWI sponsored movies, radio programs, publications, and posters.
  


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  These productions encouraged American women and men to work in war industries, enlist in the armed forces, and purchase war bonds.
  


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  Within the United States, government censors made sure that no photographs showing badly wounded soldiers or mutilated bodies reached the public.
  

Answer 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  American officials knew of the Nazi persecution of the Jews but did little to stop it.
  


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  Despite pressure from Jewish groups, the U.S. only slightly increased immigration quotas for Jewish refugees.
  


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  When the Nazis began their policy of extermination in 1941, U.S. officials tried to keep it a secret.
  


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  The American press gave the Holocaust little coverage.
  


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  Despite reports of Nazi genocide, the U.S. government turned away boatloads of Jewish refugees, sending them back to Germany to their deaths.
  


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  American military strategists knew of the existence and location of Nazi death camps, but they chose not to try to bomb them or the railroad lines leading to the camps.
  

Answer 3

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  In the mid-1930s, the overwhelming majority of Americans opposed intervention in foreign conflicts.
  


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  Congress passed the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937, outlawing arms sales or loans to nations at war and forbidding Americans from traveling on the ships of belligerent powers.
  


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  The anti-interventionist group America First claimed several hundred thousand members, including famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
  


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  Centered largely in the Midwest, the America Firsters included some active Nazi supporters.
  


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  As the Germans swept across Europe in 1940, American public opinion began to shift.
  

Answer 4

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  A severe economic depression in the 1920s facilitated the rise of Adolf Hitlers Nazi party.
  


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  In 1933 Hitler became chancellor of Germany.
  


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  Extolling fanatical nationalism and the racial superiority of Aryan Germans, Hitler blamed Jews for Germanys problems.
  


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  In 1936 Nazi troops occupied the Rhineland.
  


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  Hitler and Mussolini signed the Axis Pact, and Japan forged an alliance with Germany.
  


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  In the spring and summer of 1938, Hitler annexed Austria to the Third Reich and then demanded that the Sudetenland be turned over to Germany.
  


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  In 1939, with the help of the Soviet Union, Germany invaded Poland.
  


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  By 1940, Hitler was sweeping through Europe.
  

Answer 5

Answer: A

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[bblaney]

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