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Question 1

Battle of Midway

Answer 1

1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific.

Question 2

Selective Service Act of 1940

Answer 2

Required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards; marked the first peacetime conscription(draft) in United States history.

Question 3

War Production Board

Answer 3

During WWII, FDR established it to allocated scarce materials, limited or stopped the production of civilian goods, and distributed contracts among competing manufacturers.

Question 4

Tuskegee Airmen

Answer 4

Famous segregated unit of African-American pilots.

Question 5

Executive Order 8802

Answer 5

WWII measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the government.

Question 6

Executive Order 9066

Answer 6

112,000 Japanese-Americans forced into camps causing loss of homes and businesses.

Question 7

Korematsu v. US (1944)

Answer 7

Supreme Court case that made the internment of Americans with Japanese descent during WWII constitutional.

Question 8

rationing

Answer 8

Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military.

Question 9

War Bonds

Answer 9

Certificates sold by the United States government to pay for the war.

Question 10

Island Hopping

Answer 10

A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others.

Question 11

Kamikaze

Answer 11

Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships.

Question 12

Manhattan Project

Answer 12

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.

Question 13

Harry Truman

Answer 13

33rd President of the United States. Led the U.S. to victory in WWII making the decision to use atomic weapons for the first time. Shaped U.S. foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union after the war.

Question 14

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 14

Two Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs to end World War II.

Question 15

Holocaust

Answer 15

A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.

Question 16

Concentration Camps

Answer 16

Prison camps used by the Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

Question 17

United Nations

Answer 17

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

Question 18

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 18

Trials of the Nazi leaders ands showed that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime.