Ch. 11.4 The Home Front & the Aftermath of the War

Question 1

mobilization

Answer 1

act of assembling and preparing for war

Question 2

kamikaze

Answer 2

“divine wind”; suicide mission pilots fighting U.S. fighting ships at sea

Question 3

Cold War

Answer 3

period of political tensions between U.S. and USSR; was issue until end of 1980s; communism vs capitalism; iron curtain March 1946

Question 4

Albert Speer

Answer 4

Hitler’s architect; made minister of armaments and munitions in 1942

Question 5

General Hideki Tojo

Answer 5

Japanese prime minister 1941-4; opposed female employment

Question 6

Dresden

Answer 6

bombed by Britain from Feb 13-15, 1945; caused firestorm that killed almost 100,000 people

Question 7

Tehran Conference

Answer 7

Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill met Nov 1943 in Tehran; discuss future course of war; spring of 1944 scheduled for American-British invasion through France; agree to partition Germany after war

Question 8

Yalta Conference

Answer 8

met in Yalta (Russia) Feb 1945; conflict in Eastern Europe self-determination for gov’ts; creation of UN; all support German unconditional surrender

Question 9

Potsdam Conference

Answer 9

July 1945: Truman replaced Roosevelt; free elections in Eastern Europe conflict again

Question 10

Nuremburg Trials

Answer 10

Nazi leaders tried and condemned as war criminals (1945-6)

Question 11

Japanese internment

Answer 11

Feb 1942: Roosevelt allowed concentration camps to be formed to keep Japanese Americans in check; racism and segregation

Question 12

atomic bomb

Answer 12

dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Aug 1945; (1942) Manhattan Project in U.S. to create atomic bomb; radiation effects=deadly