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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. According to Tommy Corcoran, how did Germany support their propaganda machine?

2. Who does Jacques Rabou believe could be persuaded to follow another Hitler?

3. How many soldiers were killed when the ammunition dump at Port Chicago blew up?

4. What did Dr. Drude teach his high school students in Hamburg about the Nazis?

5. What effect did John Wayne war movies have on Japanese children living in California, according to Sheril Cunning?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to John Houseman, why was it important for the Office of War Information to broadcast defeats as well as victories?

2. What happened to the city children from London who were shipped to safer areas in the country during the war, according to John Baker?

3. How did Lowell Steward say the war affected the status of blacks in the United States?

4. According to Lowell Steward, what was the status of the black Tuskegee flying squadron?

5. Why did the FBI suspect the cartoonist, Milton Caniff?

6. According to Tommy Corcoran, what was Joseph Kennedy's strategy for the war?

7. How does Bill Mauldin believe most infantrymen thought the war should be settled?

8. Why does Jacques Raboud believe it will be difficult for his generation to erase hatred?

9. What made Sheril Cunning sad about John Wayne war movies?

10. What does Hans Gobeler believe is the greatest danger to the future of the world?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The status of women during World War II changed dramatically in a variety of ways, according to the respondents in the text. In your essay, discuss the changes that took place, their causes and after-war effects.

Essay Topic 2

The author ends the accounts with conversations with children about the long-term effects of the bomb on the children's views about the world and the future. In your paper, discuss the difference the existence of the bomb has made in young people's attitudes about life.

Essay Topic 3

Some respondents reported being disillusioned as allies became enemies and enemies changed into allies. In your essay, discuss why these changes took place and why some of those on the ground were disillusioned by those shifts in policy.

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