i need help with history hw?

[john]

1. As a result of their threat in 1941 to mobilize a march on Washington by 100,000 people, black leaders
A. brought about an executive order immediately desegregating the United States armed forces.
B. were imprisoned by the federal government.
successfully ended discrimination in the United States.
C. were unable to obtain any concessions from President Roosevelt because of his dependence on southern votes.

D. obtained F.D.R.'s agreement to initiate a policy eliminating discrimination in the employment of defense workers.

2. The Battle of Stalingrad ended in January 1943 with the surrender of the German Sixth Army
A. following an Anglo-American assault on German supply lines.
B. in response to air assaults staged by the British High Command.
C. to the Soviet Army after four months of fighting.

D. in light of a French threat to cut badly needed food supplies.

3. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 as
A. a multinational mutual defense alliance.

B. an international economic aid organization.

C. a forerunner to the European Common Market.

D. the western nations' response to the Soviet's creation of the Warsaw Pact.

4. The upsurge of CIO-led industrial unionism in the late 1930s
A. eliminated the AFL as a significant force in the labor movement.

B. benefited the AFL by forcing it to compete with the CIO.

C. was short-lived because of the continuing dominance of the AFL.

D. was a testament to the foundation that AFL organizing had laid down in the preceding two decades.

5. In the 1930s, the U.S. Congress passed a series of Neutrality Acts, which were intended to
A. bring U.S. manufacturers as much ready cash as possible as orders for supplies poured in from war-torn nations.

B. ensure U.S. isolationism, as many in the nation still regretted the huge social and economic costs of the earlier Great War.
C. punish aggressors and protect victims in international conflicts that were growing around the world.
D. express support for Switzerland and Morocco as the world war accelerated.

6. Before the 1939 “nonaggression” pact signed between the Nazi and Soviet governments, U.S. observers had seen those two groups as
A. too incompetent to create and maintain their own armies.

B. arising in backward nations that were unlikely to contribute to global cultural or industrial development.
C. most likely to help Poland and other Eastern European nations expand and modernize.
D. bitter ideological foes that were unlikely to engage in any sort of political alliance.

[Bobby]

1.) D. FDR issued Executive Order 8802 which created the Fair Employment Practices Committee
2.) C. The Germans were encircled by the Red Army and forced to surrender
3.) A multinational mutual defense alliance
4.) B. They eventually merged together
5.) Ensure US isolationism
6.) D. Neither side liked each other and the Germans eventually turned on the Russians. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was only because they both benefitted from it.

[Shawna]

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[Spaceman]

1. As a result of their threat in 1941 to mobilize a march on Washington by 100,000 people, black leaders
D. obtained F.D.R.'s agreement to initiate a policy eliminating discrimination in the employment of defense workers.

2. The Battle of Stalingrad ended in January 1943 with the surrender of the German Sixth Army
C. to the Soviet Army after four months of fighting.


3. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed in 1949 as
A. a multinational mutual defense alliance.
 (NATO was founded in 1949; the Warsaw Pact wasn't created until 1955.)

4. The upsurge of CIO-led industrial unionism in the late 1930s
B. benefited the AFL by forcing it to compete with the CIO.


5. In the 1930s, the U.S. Congress passed a series of Neutrality Acts, which were intended to
B. ensure U.S. isolationism, as many in the nation still regretted the huge social and economic costs of the earlier Great War.

6. Before the 1939 “nonaggression” pact signed between the Nazi and Soviet governments, U.S. observers had seen those two groups as
D. bitter ideological foes that were unlikely to engage in any sort of political alliance.