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Chapter12 History
Question | Answer |
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Strategy used to defeat Hitler | Island hopping |
campaigned against discriminatory practices in the US | A. Phillip Randolph |
Big Three meeting to discuss postwar plans | Yalta Conference |
limiting the amount of certain goods that civilians can buy | rationing |
All-Nisei unit; most decorated military unit in us history | 442nd Regimental Combat Team |
Willful annihilation of a racial political or cultural group | genocide |
US organized to aid Eastern European Jews | "European First" strategy |
Fostered cooperation between the Great Powers | United Nations |
Allied adopted "European First" strategy because... | only Germany was considered a long term defeat |
Allied bombing in Germany in 1942 changed the war because it.. | helped pave a way for a later all out offensive |
which battle on the Russian front ended Hitler's war plans | the battle of Stalingrad |
Following the battle of Stalingrad Hitler's war plans.. | dominating Europe had ended |
What did American leaders learn at the Kasserine pass in North Africa | that they needed aggressive officers and troops better trained for desert fighting |
what campaign in the European theater was fought on a continent other than Europe | it was fought in North Africa |
During ww11 many African Americans.. | joined organizations to fight segregation |
what happened at the battle of midway | US sank jap aircrafts and lost 250 aircrafts and lost many pilots |
what was the result of the battle of midway | Japs never again threated the pacific domination |
what was an affect that ww11 had on American women | women took men's jobs |
wartime migration caused the worst incident of racial violence in.. | Detroit, Michigan |
how did population shifts change American lives during the war | southwest became a growing cultural social political and economical force |
jap americans generally faced more restrictions than Italians and German americans during ww11 because they.. | they were isolated from the other americans |
executive order 9066 affected civil liberties in the US because it | designated war zones from which anyone could be removed |
FDR created the OPA which | had authority to control wages and set maximum prices |
why did Stalin want Britain and the US to open a second front in France | Wanted Germany to divide its troops between 2 fronts |
what took place at the Teheran conference | Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to attack Germany on western front |
what was one affect of D Day invasion | allies took on important step towards reaching berlin |
one of the effects of the battle of the bulge was that | Germany used and reserves and demoralized its troops in the battle |
pres. Truman's chief priority in using the atomic bomb against jap was | save American lives |
as American forces approached jap, jap forces | fought to the end rather than give up |
who made the decision to use the atomic bomb against the japs | harry s truman |
which group did the Nazis find superior | Aryans |
many jews were prevented from leaving Germany because. | some countries refused to accept them during the GD |
Hitler's economic persecution of jews in Germany involved | barrying of the jews from working in the civil service |
at the 1942 wannsee conference Reinhard, Heydrich | outlined a plan to exterminate about 11,000,000 jews |
what was Hitler's final solution | to exterminate all jews living in third Reich controlled regions |
the largest Nazi death camp was located at | Auschwitz |
what did the US have a delay response to the ending of the Holocaust | they focused on the US' recourses and defeating Hitler |
what is one result of ww11 | colonial people renewed their drive for independence from European powers |
what decisions were made during the 1945 conference in Potsdam | big 3 formalized a plan to divide Germany into 4 zones of occupation |
how did jap change politically after ww11 | a new contribution enacted democratic reforms |
the UN was organized to | encourage cooperation between the great powers |
in the years closely following ww11 many African americans | renewed their efforts to work for civil rights |