24.2 World War II

Question 1

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 1

(3rd deadliest in US history) in winter delaying ally advances to take Paris
- failed to drive Allies back to English channel, making Germany wait while Soviet Union psuhed westward destroying German populatins

Question 1

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 1

• based on Stalin’s
  “scorched earth” policy (moving east and destorying food, rails, and shelters)
• armies bleeding themselves to death in the destoryed city
• 850,000 casulities
• 3 battles, Moscow, Stalingrad, and Leningrad
  - Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalling dismissing Africa and Italty as a sideshow demaning Britian and US invade France as a result of winning this war

Question 2

Yalta Conference

Answer 2

Stalin agreeing to enter the war against Japan within three months after Germany’s surrending

Question 3

“island hopping”

Answer 3

US pursunig this tactic in battles of Guadalcanal and two Jima
- attacking island after island, bypassing the strongest but seizing those capable of holding airfirleds to continue pushing Japan out of region

Question 4

Holocaust

Answer 4

6 million Jews killed, 50% of global Jewish populations and an additional 5 mill ppl (disabled, political lefists, Roma ppl, slavs, etc)
- US suffering 400k military deaths
- systematic murder of 11 million civilains, incluing 6 million Jews

Question 5

Rosie the Riveter

Answer 5

Women serving in military, wartime services (Red Cross, government administrive position, and watertime production
-a muscular women dressed in coveralls with the prhase “We Can Do It!”

Question 6

A. Phillip Randolph

Answer 6

• president of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, largest black trade union, making threats towards Roosevelt bc defende contractors refused to hir eblack workers and armed forces were segregated
  Led to the Fair Employment Practice in Defense Industries Act to monitar defense industry hiring practices

Question 7

Fair Employment Practice in Defense Industries Act

Answer 7

outlawed racial and religious discrimination in the federal government and defense industry and set a precedent for future anti-discrimination law

Question 8

Great Migration

Answer 8

2nd wave of this brought at least 1.5 million African Americans to the North and West from the South
- many city riots leading to deaths of 25 black and white americans, urging African Americans into urogency for equality

Question 9

Bracero Program

Answer 9

An agreement with Mexico to create legally contracted migrant labor, denied many protections and worked for low wages
- made substantial impact on the politics of immigration and Hispanic and Chicano movements
- Polcy that brought migrant agricultural workers from Mexico to the US to support production during WWII