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Stack #42029
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| type of government contract in which the government agreed to pay a company whatever it cost to make a product plus a guaranteed percentage of the costs as profit | cost-plus |
| a government agency that made loans to companies to help cover the cost of converting to war production | Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
| the basic cargo ship used during the war | Liberty ship |
| a government agency with the authority to set priorities and production goals and to control the distribution of raw materials and supplies | War Production Board |
| a plan for the first peacetime draft in American history | Selective Service and Training Act |
| denied the right to vote | disfranchised |
| Name the two ways the United States mobilized for war | 1. They switched industries over to wartime production using incentive programs 2. They built up the military |
| What was the effect of the Cost-plus system on production? | It helped get things produced quickly |
| What was the advantage of making welded rather than riveted ships? | It made them cheaper to make, easier to build, and harder to sink |
| G.I. means: | "Government Issue" |
| White recruits did not train alongside | African americans |
| The argument that African Americans should join the war effort to achieve a double victory over Hitler's racism and a victory over racism in the United States | Double V campaign |
| Who was the highest ranking African American officer in the U.s. Army, and what was his rank? | Colonel Benjamin O. Davis, brigadier general |
| the commander of the United States Navy in the Pacific | Chester Nimitz |
| the commander of the American and Filipino forces in the Philippines | Douglas Mac Arthur |
| lieutenandt colonel and head of the mission to bomb Tokyo | James Doolittle |
| periphery | the edges |
| German troops surrendered and were put on the defensive | Battle of Stalingrad |
| What was the result of the Allied invasion of North Africa | Germany surrendered North Africa |
| When did the Philippines fall to Japan? | The Battle at Bataan Peninsula |
| What was the result of the Battle at Bataan Peninsula? | The Philippines fell to Japan |
| commander of the American forces in Morocco during the American invasion of North Africa | George Patton |
| A system in which cargo ships traveled in groups and were escorted by navy warships | convoy system |
| How were Americans able to know about japanese plans against the united States in the Pacific? | The US military used code breakers who broke the Japanese's secret codes and alerted the US. |
| when did the American invasion iof North Africa begin, and who was in command? | Nov 8, 1942, General Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| who was in command when the American forces seized Casablanca? | George Patton |
| When did the German forces in North Africa surrender? | May 1943 |
| the symbol of the campaign to hire women | Rosie the Riveter |
| the head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a major union for African American railroad workers | A. Philip Randolph |
| a new industrial region, located in southern California and the Deep South | Sunbelt |
| an overstuffed jacket with wide lapels and reached to the knees and included baggy, pleated pants | zoot suit |
| limiting the availability of an item | rationing |
| a garden planted to produce more food for the war effort | victory garden |
| government bond used to raise money for the cost of war | E bond |
| Ways Americans Supported the War Effort at Home (3) | Victory gardens, rationing, buying bonds |
| What was the purpose of the Fair Employment Practices Commission? | It enforced the order that discrimination in hiring workers in defense industries would not be tolerated |
| How did racism and discrimination affect Japanese Americans during WWII? | The Japanese were thought to be spies and disloyal. Many were moved to internment camps |
| Why did the OPA introduce rationing during WWII? | They needed to make sure there were enough supplies for the military |
| a meeting between Roosevelt and Churchill in which they agreed to increase the bombing of Germany and to invade Sicily | Casablanca Conference |
| the code name for the planned invasion of France | Operation Overlord |
| the day the invasion of France began | D-day |
| the commander of the American forces at Utah and Omaha Beaches in Normandy | Omar Bradley |
| an anphibious tractor | amphtrac |
| type of attacks in which Japanese pilors wouild deliberately crash their planes into American ships | kamikaze |
| an island in the southwest Pacific abd the first to be invaded vy Mac Arthur's roops in the plan to defeat Japan | Guadalcanal |
| What was the result of the Battle at Leyte Gulf? | The Japanese Retreated |
| American troops broke through the German defenses | Normandy |
| italy surrendered and Germany was defeated | Sicily |
| What happened at the battlle in Sicily? | Italy surrendered and germany was defeated |
| Why did the invasion of France have to begin at night? | I had to begin at night to hide the ships carrying the men and equipment across the English Channel |
| dirt wals, several feet thick and covered with shrubbery | hedgerows |
| German attack on Allied forces in Antwerp, Belgium | Battle of the Bulge |
| when was V-E day? | May 8, 1945 |
| the vice president who became president after franklin Roodevelt's death | Harry S. Truman |
| commander of the B-29s based in the Mariana islands | Curtis Lemay |
| the code name for the Program to build an atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| a kind of jellied gasoline | napalm |
| When was V-J day? | Aughust 15, 1945 |
| an international political organization | United Nations |
| a constitution | charter |
| the Date US Marines landed on Iwo Jima | Feb 19 |
| Date American troops landed on Okinawa | April 1 |
| date President Roodevelt died after suffering a stroke | April 12 |
| date representatives met at San Francisco to organize the United Nations | April 25 |
| An atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima | aug 6 |
| The date the soviet union declared war on Japan abd america dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki | Aug 9 |
| What was the importance of the victory at the Battle of the Bulge? | The Germans suffered 100,000 casualties and had very little left to prevent the Allies from entering germany |
| What day was D-DAy? | June 6, 1944 |
| the allied liberated Paris from Nazi controll | August 25 1944 |
| thousands of allied prisoners of war died on a march to Japanese prison camps | Bataan death march |
| Allies captured tis island in order to have a launching base for an invasion of Japan | Okinawa |
| Admiral Nimitz' Fleet ambushed and severely damaed the Japanese fleet, stopping the Japanese offensive in the pacific | Midway Islands |
| Scientists with the Manhattan project developed the atomic bomb in this secret location | Los Alamos |
| Once captured, these islands became bases for the4 B-29s that firebombed japan in 1945 | Mariana islands |
| Although surrounded, the Allies stubbornly lehd the tow until General patton arrived with reinforcements. The allies forced the Germans to retreat in Hitler's last major offensive | Bastogne |
| Despite sufferubg high casualties during this beach invasion, the allies successfully carried out Operation Overlord on D-Day | Normandy |
| General Patton led American forced to capture this city on the edge of the German empire | casablanca |
| "Fat Man" landed here, convincing the Japanese Emperor to order Japan to surrender | Nagasaki |
| Kamikaze pilots inflicted severe damage to American ships during the largest naval battle in history | Leyte Gulf |
| Seeking to destroy the Soviet economy, Hitler atrtempted to capture this strategic city. Soviet forces trapped the German troops, turning the momentum against the Third Reich | Stalingrad |
| After tje Alloes forced thje Germans off this island, the king of ita;u arrested Mussolini and detetly negotiated peace with the Allies | Sicily |
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