Chapter 11-2

Question 1

Meeting of the big three

Answer 1

Yalta Conference

Question 2

How many parts was Germany split into?

Answer 2

4 parts

Question 3

Hitler had used the rail way to try and punch a hole in our defenses

Answer 3

Battle of Bulge

Question 4

Who surrounded Berlin

Answer 4

The USSR

Question 5

Victory in Europe Day
(Need to Know!!!!)

Answer 5

May 8th, 1945

Question 6

Who died before the end?

Answer 6

FDR

Question 7

6-12 day journey, beaten and totrured

Answer 7

Bataan Death March

Question 8

The United States was able to stop the Japanese advance on Australia at:

Answer 8

The Battle of the Coral Sea

Question 9

All US Army units in the Pacific were under who’s control?

Answer 9

Douglas MacArthur

Question 10

All US Navy units in the Pacific were under who’s control?

Answer 10

Chester Nimitz

Question 11

Part of the Solomon Island

Answer 11

Guadalcanal

Question 12

Strategy of selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and by passing others

Answer 12

Island - hopping

Question 13

Suicide Planes / Bombers

Answer 13

Kamikazes

Question 14

The closer we got to Japan the more brutal the fighting got

Answer 14

Iwo Jima

Question 15

What were the Japanese soldiers notorious for?

Answer 15

Never surrendering

Question 16

The image were used by the media to promote the buying of…

Answer 16

Victory Bonds

Question 17

What did the enemies pledge to fight for in the Battle of Okinawa?

Answer 17

fight to the death

Question 18

Attacks in which the soldiers tried to kill as many of the enemy as possible until they themselves were killed

Answer 18

Banzai charges

Question 19

In order to obtain this weapon before any other power FDR started…..

Answer 19

The Manhattan Project

Question 20

Who was the final decision was left up to after FDR had died?

Answer 20

President Harry S. Truman

Question 21

American plane the Enola Gray dropped an atomic bomb where?

Answer 21

Hiroshima

Question 22

Name of the two bombs

Answer 22

Fatman and Little Boy

Question 23

Victory Day in Japan
(Need to Know!!!)

Answer 23

August 15, 1945

Question 24

Many jobs and places were still practicing what?

Answer 24

Discrimination and segregation

Question 25

Name of African American Pilots who learned to fly in Alabama

Answer 25

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 26

Help give jobs to Mexican Americans

Answer 26

Bracero program

Question 27

Mexican farm laborers brought to work in the US

Answer 27

Bracero

Question 28

Mexican Americans still felt discrimination =

Answer 28

Zoot suit riots

Question 29

Because of these fears the government decided to _________________ from the west coast

Answer 29

remove all “aliens”

Question 30

Confined in camps in remote areas far from the coast

Answer 30

Interned

Question 31

Japanese people born in the US (2nd Generation)

Answer 31

Nisei

Question 32

Symbolized the war contributions women made

Answer 32

Rosie the Riveter

Question 33

When the war ended what happened to many of the women jobs?

Answer 33

Their jobs ended as well