Chapter 12.5

Question 1

Rationing

Answer 1

gas (driving restricted & speed limits), meat, sugar, give coupons in to cover purchases

Question 2

Convoy System

Answer 2

cargo ships travel in groups escorted by navy warships

Question 3

Amphtrac

Answer 3

a tractor essential to the US forces during WWI

Question 4

Cost-plus

Answer 4

helped with the production used costs instead of bids

Question 5

Periphery

Answer 5

edges of the German empire

Question 6

Sunbelt

Answer 6

a region consisting of about 15 states in the South and southwestern US

Question 7

Disenfrenchise

Answer 7

African Americans were denied their right to vote

Question 8

Victory Gardens

Answer 8

in all available land

Question 9

Kamikaze

Answer 9

a suicide crash

Question 10

Hedgerow

Answer 10

dirt walls, several feet thick covered in shrubbery

Question 11

Napalm

Answer 11

a kind of jellied gasoline, used to start fires

Question 12

Manhatten Project

Answer 12

American programs built atomic bombs

Question 13

V-J Day (Date)

Answer 13

Japan Surrenders (5-15-1945)

Question 14

D-Day

Answer 14

Invasion on Normandy (6 - 6 - 1944)

Question 15

Double “V” Compaign

Answer 15

Some African Americans did not want to support the war

Question 16

Bracero Program

Answer 16

1942. migrant worker program

Question 17

Casablanca Conference

Answer 17

1943. a meeting when Roosevelt and Churchill focused on coordinating Allied military strategy against the Axis powers over the course of the coming year

Question 18

Tehran Conference

Answer 18

a meeting between FDR, Churchill and Stalin in Iran

Question 19

Bataan Death March

Answer 19

the prisoners of war were forced to march through bad weather conditions without medical care

Question 20

Island Hopping

Answer 20

hopping from one island to another

Question 21

Battle of Leyte Golf

Answer 21

largest naval battle in history, lots of kamikaze

Question 22

Battle of the Coral Sea

Answer 22

first battle the US lost, Japan won and 8 ships sunk

Question 23

Battle of MIdway

Answer 23

turning point for the US, US succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers

Question 24

Battle of the Atlantic

Answer 24

the longest continuous military campaign in WWII and the Allies were victorious

Question 25

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 25

the Germans underestimate the Soviet's response and lose b/c of it

Question 26

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 26

- Germans work quick, surround several groups of troops, Patton and tanks break through lines - Germans lose fuel

Question 27

Iwo Jima

Answer 27

Perfect location roughly halfway between the Marianas and Japan

Question 28

United Nations

Answer 28

delegates from 39 countries met to discuss the new organization. (1944)

Question 29

Office of Econmic Stablization

Answer 29

regulate wages price of farm products

Question 30

War Labor Board

Answer 30

prevents strikes while men are at war

Question 31

Office of Price Administration

Answer 31

regulates all other prices

Question 32

Korematsu v. US

Answer 32

the Supreme Court ruled that the relocation was constitutional bc it was based not on race, but on “military urgency.”( December 1944)

Question 33

Selective Service and Training Act

Answer 33

a plan for the first peacetime draft in American history, for a while, many ppl opposed it

Question 34

Navajo Code Talkers

Answer 34

Navajo men who created a code based on complex, unwritten Navajo language

Question 35

Japanese American Citizens League

Answer 35

- president Reagan apologized - granted $20k each in 1988

Question 36

International Military Tribunal

Answer 36

Nuremberg, Germany, the IMT tried German leaders suspected of committing war crimes

Question 37

FDR

Answer 37

President during WWII

Question 38

Winston Churchill

Answer 38

British Prime MInister

Question 39

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 39

General that commanded the invasion during Operation Overload

Question 40

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 40

- served as the General of the Army for the US and served in the Korean War, WWI, & WWII

Question 41

Omar Bradley

Answer 41

a sentor US Army officer who served as field commander of American soldiers during the Allied

Question 42

George Patten

Answer 42

General who captured the city of Casablanca

Question 43

Chester Nimitz

Answer 43

admiral in the US Navy, and led our victory over Japan in WWII

Question 44

Use of the Atomic Bomb

Answer 44

purpose was to end the war

Question 45

Operation Overload

Answer 45

- General Eisenhower in command of invasion - Allies place dummies to trick Germans

Question 46

Explanation of the Double V Campaign

Answer 46

made to oppose racism that Hitler created by joining the war effort

Question 47

Creation of the United Nations

Answer 47

everyone in the world would have one vote Five countries that would be permanent > Britain, France, China, and the Soviet Union