Stack #42029 Word Scramble

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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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