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Chapter 25 History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A home vegetable garden planted to add to the home food supply and replace produce sent to soldiers | Victory Garden |
| Used to transport troops and supplies | Liberty Ship |
| Abbreviation of "Government Issue" | GI |
| The selective training and service act required military service registration for all males between the ages of: | 21 and 36 |
| To meet the demand for war material, the American government... | directed the war production of business |
| instead of making cars, the Ford Motor Company converted to making | Bombers |
| Henry J. Kaiser contributed to the war effort through his | revolutionary production techniques |
| As a result of war production, employment increased and | union membership rose |
| During the war, the most serious union-organizes strikes took place in the | coal mines |
| to finance the war, the federal government did NOT.. | reduce corporate profits |
| This stripped Jews of their German citizenship, and outlawed marriage between Jews and non-jews | Nuremberg Laws |
| This was when Nazi thugs throughout Germany and Austria destroyed Jewish stores, houses, and synagogues | Kristallnacht |
| This failed to deal with the growing numbers of Jewish refugees. Each of the 32 nations refused to open their doors to more immigrants | Evian Conference |
| Here, they developed a plan to achieve what one Nazi leader called the "final solution to the Jewish question" | Wannsee Conference |
| Most were told they were going to the East to work, and of four of the six camps, nearly all were murdered soon after arrival | death camps |
| The trials established the important principle that individuals must be responsible for their own actions. Rejected the Nazi's argument that they were only "following orders" | Nuremberg Trials |
| What was the Holocaust? | Nazi Germany's systematic murder of European Jews |
| How did anti-semitism affect Jews in Germany during the war? | This was used to describe discrimination or hostility directed at the Jews. It helped them gain national prode and a sense of purpose |
| When planes drop a large number of bombs over a wide area | carpet bombing |
| a joint declaration between Roosevelt and Churchill | Atlantic charter |
| The day the invasion of Western Europe began | D-Day |
| What was the main war strategy that Roosevelt and Churchill first agreed on? | to concentrate on winning the war in Europe |
| After the Allies gained control of Africa, what was their next target? | Italy |
| The Germans were finally halted in their advance into the Soviet Union at | The battle of Stalingrad |
| the complicated Allied invasion to take Europe bad from the Axis Powers began | on D-Day |
| The Battle of the Bulge was | the largest battle fought in the Soviet Union |
| After Germany surrendered, the Allies decided to | divide it into four parts, to be governed by Britain, the U.S., the Soviets, and France |
| After WW2, what organization was formed on the basis of the Atlantic Charter | the united nations |
| Prevented the Japanese from invading Australia. Aircraft battle, all on water. | Battle of the Coral Sea |
| Between Japan and the US | Battle of Midway |
| From April to June 1945. US victory. Last battle before the actual invasion. | Battle of Okinawa |
| The making of the atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| Just hours after they bombed Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked | Clark Field, an American air base |
| When the Japanese advanced against his troops, General MacArthur was forced to.. | leave the Philippines |
| The Allies sunk all four Japanese carriers and 250 planes at... | the battle of midway |
| through their island-hopping strategy, the Allies put themselves in a position to... | bomb japan |
| the goal of the manhattan project was to | develop an atomic bomb |
| japan's surrender came less than a week after... | the destruction of nagasaki |
| Confined to camps in isolated areas | interned |
| Mexican-American farmers | braceros |
| The federal government acted against employment discrimination by creating.. | the Fair Employment Practices Committee |
| During WW2, African American soldiers | Fought in segregated units |
| The Congress of Racial Equality believed in.. | using nonviolent techniques to end racism |
| Mexican American laborers liven in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods called.. | Barrios |
| During WW2, many Japanese Americans were interned, or.. | confined to camps in isolated areas |
| In 1988 Congress passed a law awarding each surviving Japanese American internee | $20,000 tax-free money and an apology |
| Because of the war, large numbers of women begam to work as.. | Steelworkers and welders |
| After the war, women were expected to.. | leave their jobs and return home. |
| The two most important islands and airbases.. | Okinawa & Iwo Jima. |
| Where was the first atomic bomb created? | Heroshima |
| name two admirals | Nimitz & Hallsy |
| What is the capital of the Phillipenes? | Manilla |
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