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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did a recruit from another country have to be in the U.S. army to become a citizen?

2. What does Robert Lekachman believe happened for the last time in World War II?

3. How did Robert Rasmus feel looking at the faces of the German dead?

4. What unusual food did Ken Hourigan eat in the Philippines?

5. Why did Londoners run toward parachuting soldiers?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Paul Pisicano, how was WWII different for Italian Americans?

2. How did Bill Bailey run afoul of the law?

3. Why were civilians unkind to wounded war veterans, according to Betty Hutchinson?

4. Why did John Ciardi feel that sports analogies confused soldiers?

5. What is the difference between the attitudes of Admiral Gene Larocque and General William Buster?

6. What did the respondents feel about the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima?

7. What was the Japanese code of bushido, and what difference did it make to American fighting men?

8. What was the difference between the fate of Russian prisoners of war and American and British POWs?

9. How does Sarah Killingsworth feel now about the war?

10. How were the American prisoners of war treated by the German guards?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Propaganda is implicated as overwhelming the morals and thinking of people on both sides of the war. In your essay, discuss the role of propaganda as delivered through music, movies and other media.

Essay Topic 2

Officers often kept the troops in ignorance of their destinations, missions and purposes. Give your opinion as to why this was so, and the result of programmed ignorance on the troops and on the outcome of their efforts.

Essay Topic 3

In your essay, discuss the unifying elements that brought Germans and Americans, Japanese and Americans, and other groups together both during and after the war. What factors made these reconciliations possible?

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