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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. The term "Chad" originated where?

2. What was the physical quality of most literary works produced during the war?

3. The media tended to do what with negative reports from the war?

4. Most of the efforts discussed in America and Britain were aimed at which of the following?

5. What author is specifically credited with producing an accurate memoir of the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and why did the media fail to report the entire story of the war?

2. How did the average soldier view the war?

3. What did front line troops usually believe about depictions of their wartime experiences?

4. What does RADAR stand for?

5. How did media organizations gain access to war zones for their reporters?

6. What is one way that a person could become considered to be subversive?

7. Why were front line soldiers confused by media presentations of the war?

8. What qualities caused an idiom to transfer to enter the general vocabulary?

9. How did advertisers think of and take advantage of the war?

10. Simply stated, what is the policy of "accentuating the positive"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The organization and doctrine behind America's army was woefully out of date when it entered World War II, and dramatic changes were necessary to prepare it to fight the axis war machine.

1) Describe America's army before its entrance into the war.

2) Explain the duties that the American army was prepared for and how it expected to fight and win battles.

3) Discuss the realities of the demands placed on the army during the second World War.

4) Explain how the US army adapted and rose to the challenge.

Essay Topic 2

Military training was intended to create capable and obedient soldiers. The extreme demands of World War II required military training to be short and intense.

1) Explain the purpose of military training.

2) Describe, according to military thinking of the time, the ideal soldier after he has just completed training.

3) Explain how some of the difficulties of WWII affected military training.

4) Discuss the similarities between military training and public school systems of the 1940s and explain why this similarity existed.

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the second World War, soldiers faced constant hazing from their officers. Although largely successful in helping to establish and maintain discipline, these measures were always demeaning, and sometimes dangerous.

1) Explain the unofficial policy of hazing in the US military during World War II.

2) Discuss why this policy was used, and what the army expected to gain through it.

3) Describe some of the unintended side-effects of hazing on the enlisted men.

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