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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. What was a shadow box?

2. What is a thirteen-week wonder?

3. What does Gloria Gleason say bothered people most about the war?

4. What proportion of the inhabitants of Leningrad died when Hitler's forces laid siege to the city?

5. What kept Joseph Small from being injured when the barracks in Port Chicago was demolished?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Ray Wax feel about his participation in the war?

3. According to John Kenneth Galbraith, what was ironic about the consumption of consumer goods during the war?

4. How did Galatea Berger say the Third Reich was recorded in her school history classes?

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

6. Why was Eddie Slovik famous?

7. According to Colonel Gleed, how did the study made by the War Department in 1925 affect the black community?

8. What does George Oremont say was required to make money during the war?

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

10. What does Sheril Cunning say communal spirit was like during the war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Those who volunteered to involve themselves in the war against the fascist dictator in Spain, Franco, were designated PAFs - premature anti-fascists - by the war department and designated as unfit for active duty. If fascism is evil, is it possible to fight it prematurely? What do the PAFs believe would have been the result for the world if Franco had been defeated? In your essay, give your opinion about the PAFs and support your opinion with data from the text.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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