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America At War
Question | Answer |
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Define Anti-Semitism. | The discrimination or violent hostility directed at the Jews. |
True or False: Hitler was an anti-semit? | True |
What was the basis for the creation of the Atlantic Charter? | The United Nations |
Who wrote a letter to Roosevelt saying that there was a new type of weapon that could be used (atomic bomb)? | Albert Einstein |
This battle was fought because the Allies needed to secure the trade routes and to get goods safely across the Atlantic Ocean? | Battle of the Atlantic |
This battle was fought to break Germany’s last strong offensive position on the western front. It was also the most costly and bloodiest of all European battles? | Battle of the Bulge |
This battle was fought because it was the last obstacle before attacking the Japanese homeland? | Battle of Okinawa |
This battle was fought because the Allies needed to retake Europe from the west and to retake Paris? | Battle of Normandy |
What was the code name for D-Day? | Operation Overlord |
This battle was fought because the Allies needed to stop German expansion eastward for more “living space”? | Battle of Stalingrad |
The Japanese will take American and Filipinos as prisoners of war and march them 60 miles. 25, 000 will die? | Baatan Death March |
This battle was fought to destroy Japanese airfields. It was the first US offensive of the war in the pacific? | Battle of Guadalcanal |
Places where political prisoners are confined, usually under harsh conditions by the German SS? | Concentration Camps |
To achieve the genocide of the Jewish population, the Nazis created these for the mass murder of the Jewish people? | Death Camps |
The General in charge the D-Day invasion or Battle of Normandy? | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Americans bought these to help finanace the war? | War Bonds |
The deliberate destruction of an entire ethnic or cultural group, against the Jewish population? | Genocide |
Sealed off areas within a city where Jewish people were forced to live. | Ghettos |
He helped the war effort by mass building ships? | Henry Kaiser |
He helped the war effort by making planes? | Henry Ford |
This is known as the systematic murder of European Jews. | Holocasut |
He committed suicide on April 30. 1945 to avoid being captured? | Adolf Hitler |
The General incharge of the American forces in the Pacific? | Douglas MacArthur |
Items like sugar and coffee were ___ during the war? | Rationed |
Fictonal icon created by the government to help attract female workers to jobs within the factories? | Rosie the Riveter |
This required all males, 21-36, to registe for military service? | Selective Service and Training Act |
During the war there were often ____ in items like nylon, rubber and gasoline? | Shortages |
During the war, Americans often supplied themselves with fresh vegetables by growing these? | Victory Gardens |
Many women set aside the role of housewife and mother to work in what? | Factories |
Jews were instructed to wear these when out in public, so they could be easily identified? | Yellow Star of David |
Japanese American along the west coast were rounded up and placed in these? | Internment Camps |
Name the two cities that were hit by the atomic bomb? | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
The code name for the creation of the atomic bomb? | Manhattan Project |
Autobiography written by Hitler detailing the destruction of the Jewish people? | Mein Kampf |
These soldiers will be the first to reach Hitler's bunker in Berlin? | Soviets |
The official surrender of the Japanese will be received aboard this ship? | USS Missouri |
He will become President of the United States when Roosevelt dies of a stroke? | Harry Truman |