26-50

Question 1

Koremastsu v. US

Answer 1

Roosevelt’s executive order 906 excludes Japanese from important areas, court ruled the government is justified in time of “emergency peril” to suspend citizen’s civil rights

Question 2

Double v

Answer 2

Urge readers to support the war to win a double victory over hitlers racism abroad & at home

Question 3

Chester Nimitz

Answer 3

Commander of the us navy in the pacific, planned operations against Japanese navy.

Question 4

Pearl Harbor

Answer 4

Japanese nuclear bomb that entered the us into ww1

Question 5

Code breakers

Answer 5

America had a team of code breakers bodes in Hawaii that had already broken many of the Japanese codes

Question 6

Tehran conference

Answer 6

Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met to divide Germany. International peacekeeping organization

Question 7

Operation overlord

Answer 7

Code name for battle at Normandy. June 6, 1944- August 25 1944.

Question 8

Eisenhower

Answer 8

A general who had organized the D-Day invasion.

Question 9

Battle at midway

Answer 9

Japanese launched aircraft on June 4, 1942

Question 10

Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

Answer 10

Highest ranking AA officer, to the rank of brigadier general

Question 11

Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 11

Led the team of engineers & scientists to build an atomic bomb

Question 12

D-Day

Answer 12

Invasion of France to force Germany to again fight the war on two fronts

Question 13

George Patton

Answer 13

Was put in command after Eisenhower fired the general who led the battle for North America

Question 14

Normandy

Answer 14

Target, 60 mile stretch of 5 beaches

Question 15

Omar Bradley

Answer 15

Commander of the AM. Forces landing at Omaha & Utah

Question 16

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 16

A general, demanded approval to expand the war against China. He publicly criticized the president

Question 17

Leslie Groves

Answer 17

Headed the secret American program to build an atomic bomb

Question 18

V-E Day

Answer 18

May 8, 1945, “victory in Europe”

Question 19

V-J day

Answer 19

Aug. 15, 1945- Japan surrendered

Question 20

Iwojima

Answer 20

Bombs fell on Tokyo

Question 21

Nuremberg trials

Answer 21

When the international military tribunal was created to punish Germany & Japanese leaders for war crimes

Question 22

Battle of the bugle

Answer 22

US won, hitlers goal was to cut off allied supplies coming through Antwerp, Belgium.

Question 23

J. Edgar Hoover

Answer 23

Urged HUAC to hold public hearing on communist subversion to expose “communist sympathizers” & “fellow travelers”

Question 24

Fallout

Answer 24

Radiation left over after a blast

Question 25

Suez Canal

Answer 25

Secured by the British, that forced Rommel to retreat in nov. 1942