chapter 17

Question 1

George Marshall

Answer 1

Army Chief of Staff

Question 2

A. Phillip Randolph

Answer 2

Called on African Americans everywhere to march for equality during the war.

Question 3

Office of Price Administration

Answer 3

Fought inflation by freezing prices, wages rents, rationed food

Question 4

National War Labor Board

Answer 4

Limited wage increases, kept people from changing unions.

Question 5

War Production Board

Answer 5

Rationed fuel and materials vital to the war effort to ensure industry gets the resources it needs to produce for the war.

Question 6

Department of the Treasury

Answer 6

Issued war bonds to raise money for the war effort.

Question 7

Rationing

Answer 7

Established fixed amounts of goods consumers could purchase by issuing coupon books so that the military had what it needed for the war effort.

Question 8

Operation Torch

Answer 8

Allied invasion of North Africa.

Question 9

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 9

Soviet victory is turning point on the Eastern Front. Germany in retreat from this point onward until V-E day

Question 10

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 10

Allied Supreme Commander in Europe. Led Operation Torch and D-Day planning.

Question 11

George Patton

Answer 11

US Tank Commander, defeated Rommel in Africa and led Battle of the Bulge.

Question 12

Operation Overlord

Answer 12

Code name for D-Day, the allied invasion of France. June 6, 1944. Turning point in the War in Europe.

Question 13

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 13

Last ditch effort by the Germans to win the war, they wanted to split American and British forces and break up allied supply lines.

Question 14

V-E day

Answer 14

May 8, 1945, marks the end of fighting in Europe. Germany surrenders unconditionally.

Question 15

Harry Truman

Answer 15

Takes over after Roosevelt dies in April of 1945.

Orders to drop atomic bomb

Question 16

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 16

Allied Supreme Commander in the Pacific.

Question 17

Doolittle Raid

Answer 17

led 16 bombers in an attack on Tokyo, lifting American spirits after Pearl Harbor.

Question 18

Corral Sea

Answer 18

First time Japanese attack had been turned back in the war.

Question 19

Midway

Answer 19

Turning point in the Pacific, Japanese forces defeated and four aircraft carriers destroyed, breaking the Japanese ability to carry out offensive war.

Question 20

Iwo Jima

Answer 20

Greatest number of American casualties in the war in the Pacific.

Question 21

Okinawa

Answer 21

Showed the Allies how tough and costly an invasion of the Japanese islands would be.

Question 22

Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 22

Research Director of the Manhattan Project

Question 23

Manhattan Project

Answer 23

Code name for development of the atomic bomb

Question 24

Hiroshima

Answer 24

First atomic bomb, Little Boy, dropped over this industrial city.

Question 25

Nagasaki

Answer 25

Second atomic bomb dropped over this city, ending World War II.

Question 26

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 26

Nazi leaders put on trial for crimes against humanity.

Question 27

Yalta Conference

Answer 27

Big Three meet at seaside resort to discuss the fate of Germany and the postwar world. Soviets agree to assist America in defeating Japan.

Question 28

Occupation of Japan

Answer 28

Douglas MacArthur reshaped Japan’s economy and introduced free market practices and transformed the government into a democracy. The MacArthur Constitution is still in Place.

Question 29

El-Alemien

Answer 29

Turning point in North Africa. Patton defeated Rommel and the allies move into Southern Italy.

Question 30

CORE

Answer 30

Congress Racial Equality
fights segregation
James Farmer - founder

Question 31

JACL

Answer 31

Japanese American Citizen League

pushed government to compensate prisoners

Question 32

GI Bill of Rights

Answer 32

free college for veterans

federal loans for homes and businesses

Question 33

Japanese Americans

Answer 33

Nisei