Question 1
In 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the Tripartite Pact mainly out of shared fear of:
A) the United States.
B) the spread of Soviet communism.
C) Allied use of the atomic bomb.
D) the growing military threat from China.
Question 2
As the war neared its end, the number of workers who went on strike and the toll of lost man-days:
A) dropped sharply.
B) were not a significant issue in war production.
C) reached their highest levels of the war.
D) led to a sharp decline in union membership.
Question 3
Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter poster:
A) mocked working woman for their loss of femininity.
B) questioned whether women should be working in factories.
C) suggested that men were stronger and more capable than women.
D) showed that female war workers could still be feminine.
Question 4
By the time the Allies met at Yalta, Roosevelt realized that neither the Soviets nor British would accept:
A) establishing European spheres of influence.
B) a conditional German surrender.
C) the principles of the Atlantic Charter.
D) American domination of the postwar world.
Question 5
Among the Allies, the fiercest fighting and greatest causalities were endured by:
A) Britain.
B) the United States.
C) the Soviet Union.
D) France.
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