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U.S. in WWII
20/21st - Davis - SVHS - The United States in WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| After Pearl Harbor how many Americans enlisted to fight in the war? | 5 million |
| After Pearl Harbor the Selective Service expanded the draft and eventually provided an additional ______ soldiers. | 10 million |
| Under this program women worked in non-combat roles such as nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, and pilots. | WAAC - Women's Auxiliary Army Corps |
| Despite discrimination at home, how many African Americans fought in WWII? | 1 million |
| In 1941, FDR created the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) to bring scientists into the war effort, their MAIN focus was on what? | radar & sonar to locate subs |
| The most important achievement of the OSRD was the secret development of the atomic bomb that operated under the code name? | “The Manhattan Project” |
| The ________ decided which companies would convert to wartime production and how to best allocate raw materials to those industries. | WPB - War Production Board |
| The ______ set up a system of rationing where households had set allocations of scarce goods such as gas, meat, shoes, sugar, coffee. | OPA |
| During the first four months of 1942 Germany sank ____ U.S. ships. | 87 |
| German Submarines were called? | U-Boats |
| Almost ______ of all U-boat sailors died during the Battle of the Atlantic. | two-thirds |
| The first great turning point for the Allied Forces on the Eastern front was the battle of | Stalingrad |
| How many Soviets were lost in that battle at Stalingrad on the Eastern front? | 1 million |
| An invasion of Axis controlled North Africa led by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called | Operation Torch |
| Winston Churchill and FDR met at Casablanca and decided to launch amphibious invasion of | France & Italy |
| Among the brave men who fought in Italy were pilots of the all-black ___th squadron – the Tuskegee Airmen. | 99 |
| “D-Day,” was the largest land-sea-air operation in military history, the operation involved 3 million U.S. & British troops and was set for | June 6, 1944 |
| Despite air support, German retaliation was most brutal at _______ Beach. | Omaha |
| At the battle of ______________, the Germans had lost 120,000 troops, 600 tanks, and 1,600 planes and could do nothing but retreat from that point on. | the Bulge |
| On ___________ he Hitler married his longtime girlfriend Eva Braun then wrote a last note in which he blamed the Jews for starting the war and his generals for losing it. The next day he gave poison to his wife and shot himself. | April 29, 1945 |
| General ____________ accepted the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich. On May 8, 1945, the Allies celebrated V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day), the war in Europe was finally over. | Eisenhower |
| In May 1942 Allied forces succeeded in stopping the Japanese drive toward Australia in the five-day Battle of | the Coral Sea |
| The Americans won a decisive victory at the battle of _______________ as their planes destroyed 4 Japanese aircraft carriers and 250 planes. | Midway |
| The Japanese employed a new tactic, _________________, sinking 16 U.S. ships and damaging 80 more. | Kamikaze attacks |
| This island was critical to the Allies as a base for an attack on Japan, it was called the most heavily defended spot on earth, with Allied and Japanese forces suffered heavy casualties. | Iwo Jima |
| In April 1945, U.S. marines invaded ______________, the Japanese unleashed 1,900 Kamikaze attacks sinking 30 ships and killing 5,000 seamen, it cost the Americans 7,600 marines and the Japanese 110,000 soldiers. | Okinawa |
| Truman warned Japan in late July 1945 that without a immediate Japanese surrender, it faced “prompt and utter destruction” and dropped Atomic Bombs on what two Japanese cities. | Hiroshima & Nagasaki |
| During the seven- year U.S. occupation of Japan, General _______________ reshaped Japan’s economy by introducing free-market practices that led to a remarkable economic recovery | MacArthur |
| By the end of the war, America was the world’s dominant economic and military power with the unemployment rate only_______by 1944 and wages rising to ______. | 1.2% & 35% |
| More than a million newcomers poured into _______________ between 1941-1944 to work in War Industries. | California |
| To help returning servicemen ease back into civilian life, Congress passed the | G.I. Bill |
| Which of the following Japanese internment camps was located in Arizona? | Poston |
| Which of the following Japanese internment camps was located in Wyoming? | Hart Mountain |
| In the late 1980s, President Reagan signed into law a bill that provided $__________ to every Japanese American sent to a relocation camp | 20,000 |
| Nearly 59 years after the end of World War II, the National World War II Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, May 29, 2004 to honor the __________ Americans who died in the conflict. | 408,680 |
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