A) African-Americans wanted a return to the New Deal; white Americans wanted the unregulated free market.
B) African-Americans wanted churches to rein in individual freedom, while white Americans embraced consumer individualism.
C) For white Americans, freedom was a position to be defended; for African-Americans it was a goal to be achieved.
D) White Americans thought of freedom exclusively in terms of property rights, African-Americans exclusively in terms of civil rights.
E) African-Americans considered freedom the ability to travel overseas, while white Americans equaled freedom with homeownership.
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A) decreasing union membership.
B) agreeing to a no-strike pledge.
C) accepting wage cuts.
D) asking Congress to abolish Social Security.
E) joining the army.
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A) America Now! committee, an interventionist group.
B) Anti-Semitism Society, a group that blamed the Jews for the war.
C) America First committee, an isolationist group.
D) Lend-Lease League, a group that supported technology for the war.
E) Free Paris Society, a group that advocated the liberation of Paris.
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A) It referred to his support of the Lend-Lease Act, which would equip Great Britain with war materiel.
B) Initially, it was a call to eliminate barriers to international trade.
C) It suggested the Great Depression would not continue after the war.
D) B and C
E) A and B
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A) Spanish Civil War
B) The American Century
C) An American Dilemma
D) ordered the use of the atomic bombs
E) One World
F) What the Negro Wants
G) The Road to Serfdom
H) Britain's prime minister
I) German leader
J) American painter
K) Soviet leader
L) Executive Order 8802
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A) He feared that the Republican incumbent Wendell Wilkie lacked the experience to govern the nation.
B) He argued that the nation should not switch its executive leadership in the middle of war.
C) He argued that the recovery was too fragile and the international situation too dangerous for him to leave his post.
D) He argued that the United States could only defeat the dictators of Italy, Germany, and Japan if they follow the leader with similar authority and power.
E) He did so reluctantly after recognizing that his eight years of leadership had failed to produce a viable successor in the Democratic Party.
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A) Roosevelt realized the sacrifices the Soviets had made in their victory in the Eastern front.
B) The Soviet Union had long feared the aggressive governments of eastern Europe.
C) It was hard for Roosevelt to distinguish between eastern European Slavs and Russian-speaking Soviets.
D) Since the United States wanted to create a similar sphere of influence in western Europe, Stalin's request could hardly be denied.
E) Virtually all of the eastern European territories in question had once been part of the Russian empire.
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A) In all its details, he thought it indistinguishable from National Socialism.
B) The American consumer economy, he thought, lacked the complexity that required economic planning.
C) He was convinced that even the best intentioned government planning efforts would threaten individual liberties.
D) He reasoned that economic planning during the war had almost cost the United States its victory.
E) He worried that the New Deal would eventually assist African-Americans in achieving equality.
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