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US history
US history Study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the two theaters of wwll | Europe And Pacific |
| Axis Powers (Countries and leaders) | Germany, Italy and Japan |
| Allied Powers (Countries and leaders) | United states, Great Britain, soviet Union, and France |
| What was the Munich Agreement | a 1938 settlement where Great Britain, France, and Italy allowed Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. |
| What is Blitzkrieg | a military tactic of combined arms and surprise attack that uses overwhelming, fast-moving force |
| What is the Holocaust | Systematic murder of 6 million jews across Europe |
| What is the lend-Lease Act | FDR would lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country whose defense was vital to the united states |
| What happened at pearl harbor | The Japanese, attacked the pearl harbor on December 7th 1941 and destroys the pacific fleet. |
| What was the selective Service act and training Act | U.S. federal laws that instituted military conscription (the draft) |
| What is the Double V campaign | Pittsburgh Courier. It stood for a "double victory": victory abroad against fascism and the Axis powers, and victory at home against racism, segregation, and Jim Crow. |
| Who is Rosie the Riveter | A woman who represented millions of women who began to enter into the workforce |
| Who are the Tuskegee Airman, why are they important? | the first African American military pilots and support personnel in the U.S. Armed Forces, serving during World War II |
| What is island-hopping | Traveling to one island to another |
| What is the Manhattan project | The plan to make the atomic bomb |
| Why did we use the atomic bombs? Where did we drop them | We used them in order to make them surrender. They dropped them in Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| What happened to Japanese-Americans during WWll | Japanese internment happened. Japanese Americans were shipped to prison camps |
| What is Korematsu v. U.S. | Supreme Court decision that upheld the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. |
| How did WWll affect the Great Depression | Employment rates fell, many lost their jobs after the war. And farmers stopped prospering after the war. |
| What is rationing | the controlled, government-mandated distribution of scarce resources and consumer goods during crises |
| Why was the home front is and why it is significant | the civilian population and the activities taking place within the territory of a nation at war while its armed forces are deployed abroad |
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