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Chapter 11 WWII
World War II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| reason US became involved in WWII | Japan attacked Pearl Harbor |
| What did Germany do to show aggression in Europe? | took over Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland; eventually took over all of Europe except Britain |
| What did Japan do to show aggression in Asia? | Invaded China and other countries to get resources such as tin, rubber, and oil |
| What happened in Iowa Jima? | the U.S. captured this island using a plan called island hopping so they could launch attacks closer to Japan |
| What was the Holocaust? | when Nazis killed many people in concentration camps |
| What was the importance of the Navajo Code Talkers? | Navajo Indians who joined US Marines used this language to create a secret code that the Germans could not understand |
| Who made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki? | Harry Truman |
| Why did US drop atomic bombs on Japan? | Truman felt that too many Americans would die if US invaded Japan |
| What happened when US dropped atomic bombs on Japan? | Japan surrendered and WWII ended. |
| What was Pearl Harbor? | When Japan bombed US at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
| What was D Day | The largest most powerful sea invasion in history |
| Was was VE Day? | Germany was forced to surrender |
| What was VJ day | Three days after atomic bomb was dropped, the Emperor of Japan surrendered and we had victory |
| Who was Roosevelt | US president |
| Who was Stalin | Soviet dictator |
| Who was Churchill? | British Prime Minister |
| Who was Hirohito? | Emperor of Japan |
| Who was Harry Truman | President of US at end of WWII |
| Who was Mussolini? | Dictator of Italy |
| Who was Hitler? | Dictator of Germany |
| Who was McCarthy? | United States Senator who led group organized to uncover communists in United States |
| Who was Khrushchev | Soviet leader |
| How did America ration during WWII? | Meat, sugar and gasoline were needed for the war and supplies were limited. Many Americans began growing their own "victory" gardens |
| How did the roles of women and African Americans change during WWII? | They had to start working in factories |
| What was the nickname given to wormen doing the jobs that only men had done previously? | Rosie the Riveter |
| African American pilots who flew many successful missions over Italy | Tuskegee Airmen |
| An imaginary line dividing Europe into communist and non-communist countries | Iron Curtain |
| When airplanes dropped supplies to people trapped in West Berlin | Berlin Airlift |
| When US joined forces with other countries to push Communist North Koreans out of South Korea | Korean War |
| Countries that formed an alliance to keep the Soviet Union from spreading communism | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| 3 ways the US tried to stop the spread of communism | Berlin Airlift, Korean War, and NATO |
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