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- What was the greatest factor that led to the failure of Roanoke?
- Which country will enslave Native Americans?
- Jamestown was saved because of the marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe and
- The June 6, 1944 invasion of Normandy is known to most people as...
- A lot of the war was financed with debt, but much of the war was paid for through taxes: how many Americans were paying taxes before and after the war?
- (True or False) The term "Age of Isolationism" was/is misleading or inaccurate because the U.S. helped lead arms reduction negotiations and it was very active in Latin America (for better and for worse) due to the "Good Neighbor Policy."
- (True or False) World War II changed America at home by significantly increasing the role and power of the federal government (which is saying something -- like the "New Deal on steroids") because of the creation of powerful wartime agencies and massive rationing of food and supplies.
- Which regions of the U.S. benefitted the most and the least from the war, and what happened to union membership during the war?
- What was the first settlement for new france?
- (True or False) The government told the automakers to not make any new model Fords or Chryslers in 1942.
- What was the unemployment rate in 1940? 1943? How many Americans were in the military?
- Which country was first to Berlin (and thus help end the war in Europe) and how many people did they lose during the war?
- (True or False) By 1944, U.S. factories were producing an airplane every five minutes and a ship every day.
- From a human history standpoint, one of the biggest changes that war brought was that...
- According to the Crash Course episode, which of the following were reasons to NOT use, or at least question the use of, the atomic bomb(s)?a. The Japanese had their own atomic weapons -- there was fear of retribution.b. Japan had already surrendered, thus use of atomic weapons could be considered "cruel and unusual punishment."c. Some argue the real reason the bombs were dropped was to threaten the USSR.d. All of these were cited as reasons.
- (True or False) The primary reason cited by the episode for using the atomic bomb was that it ultimately saved American and Japanese lives.
- During the early stages of the war in the Pacific, U.S. victory in the Coral Sea and at Midway paved the way for the U.S. strategy known as...
- (True or False) Though claiming to be neutral, "Cash and Carry" meant that the U.S. could sell arms (weapons) to Germany and Japan.
- What was U.S. reaction to Japanese and Italian aggression and the rise of Spanish and German fascism in the 1930s?
- (True or False) Government expenditures during the war were twice the amount they had been in the previous 150 years.