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Vessels built in the US that usually carried troops or war supplies |
Liberty Ships |
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Technique by which planes scattered large numbers of bombs over a wide area |
Carpet Bombing |
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Major naval battle between the United States & Japan |
Battle of Midway or Battle of Leyte Gulf |
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Home projects that raised vegetables during World War II |
Victory Gardens |
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Japanese Suicide Planes |
Kamikazes |
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American strategy of selectively attacking specific targets in the Pacific |
Island-Hopping |
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Nickname of atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima |
Little Boy |
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Japanese soldiers’ strategy to kill as many as possible before being killed |
Banzai Charges |
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Nickname of atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki |
Fat Man |
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May 8th, 1945 |
VE-Day |
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American General that was first in charge of troops in North Africa and later all of Europe |
Dwight Eisenhower |
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Poison gas used to kill Jews in the showers at Auschwitz |
Zyklon B |
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Night of Broken Glass” where Nazis destroyed 100s of Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues |
Crystal Night |
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American General in charge of troops in the Pacific 1 |
Douglas Macarthur |
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Name of the airplane used to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima |
Enola Gay |
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Japanese Americans born in the U.S. of parents who had emigrated from Japan |
Nisei |
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Super-agency established To centralize agencies dealing with war production |
Office of war mobilization |
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Hatred/Discrimination of Jews [MULTIPLE CHOICE] |
anti-semitism |
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Men ages 21-36 were required to sign up for the military draft after the passage of |
The Selective Training and Service Act |
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GI stood for “Government Issue” and generally referred to |
More than 16 million Americans served as soldiers, sailors, and aviators in the war. They called themselves GIs, an abbreviation of “Government Issue”. |
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Ration books were used by people in America to |
To purchase of war-time merchandise that was rationed or restricted |
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The Tuskegee Airmen were the first |
All African-American fighter pilot unit |
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Which of the following best describes “code-talkers” |
A group of Navajos developed a secret code, based on their language, that the enemy could not break. The marines recruited more than 400 Navajos to serve as radio operators. These “code talkers”, as they became known, provided an important secure communications link in several key battles of the war. |
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Prior to the US’s involvement in the war, FDR and Winston Churchill made an agreement about the aims & goals of the war known as |
Atlantic Charter |
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German U-boats that grouped together to attack convoys were known as |
Unterseeboots, who fought in wolf packs. |
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The turning point of the fighting on the Eastern front of Europe was the Soviet Union’s victory at |
Battle of Stalingrad |
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June 6th, 1944 is better known as |
D-Day |
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In order to better identify Jews in Eastern Europe; Nazis forced them to wear what on their clothing? |
stars marked “Jew |
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Genocide is |
The deliberate destruction of an entire ethnic or cultural group |
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Upon arrival at Auschwitz, two lines of Jews formed. One line was for people selected to be worked to death at the camp. The other was for |
The elderly, women with children, and those who looked to weak to work were herded into gas chambers and killed. |
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Nazi concentration camp leaders and war criminals were brought to justice at the |
Nuremberg Trials |
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With the words, “I shall return”, General Douglas MacArthur promised to come back to |
Philippines |
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The Doolittle Raids over Tokyo were significant to America because |
The Doolittle raid was important because although it caused little physical damage, it shocked Japan's leadership and boosted Allied morale at a crucial time. |
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An important strategy used by American forces in the Pacific was |
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Midway Atoll was incredibly important strategically because |
If you could control Midway then you could attack the Hawaiian islands |
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Japanese soldiers had an advantage at the Battle of Guadalcanal because |
They controlled the waters around the island |
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Which phrase BEST describes the American campaign on Okinawa? |
Very difficult with high casualties |
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The head of the Manhattan Project was named |
Robert Oppenheimer - supervised the building of the bomb |
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After the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
Japan surrendered |
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What led the government to evacuate Japanese-Americans from the West Coast? |
Hostility grew into hatred and hysteria after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and rumors flew about sabotage on the West Coast. The press increased people’s fears with inaccurate reports carrying headlines such as “Jap Boat Flashes Message Ashore” and “Japanese Here Sent Viral Data to Tokyo”. Such reports left Americans feeling that Japanese spies were everywhere As a result of prejudices and fears, the government decided to remove all “aliens” from the West Coast |
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On June 25th, 1941, FDR signed Executive Order 8802, which said that |
On June 25, 1941 the President signed Executive order 8802, opening jobs and job training programs in defense plants to all Americans “without discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origin.” |
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During World War II, African-American soldiers |
Known as GI’s - Government Issue |
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The Bracero program allowed for Mexicans to |
In 1942, an agreement between the two nations provided for transportation, food, shelter, and medical care for thousands of braceros. |
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In 1988, Congress passed a law awarding each surviving Japanese-American internee |
tax-free payment of 20,000 dollars. |
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Zoot Suit Riots occurred when |
In the 1940s some young Mexican Americans in Los Angeles began to wear an outfit known as the “zoot-suit” -featuring a long draped jacket, baggy pants with tight cuffs, and often worse slicked back “ducktail” haircut. This look offended many people, especially sailors who came to LA on leave from nearby military bases. Groups of sailors roamed the street looking for these zoot-suiters whom they would bat up and be humiliated for looking “un-American” |