Chapter 17

Question 1

This was created by Congress to fight the threat of inflation

Answer 1

Office of Price Administration

Question 2

This expanded the draft and eventually mustered 10 million soldiers

Answer 2

Selective service system

Question 3

This method was used to dress the use of scarce and essential wartime goods

Answer 3

Rationing

Question 4

The law establishing this gave its members official status and salary, and a year later, granted the, full US army benefits

Answer 4

Women’s auxiliary corps

Question 5

This assumed the responsibility for converting industry from peacetime to wartime production and distributing raw madrigals to key industries

Answer 5

War productions board

Question 6

This was responsible for improvements in radar and sonar and the development of wonder drugs

Answer 6

Office of scientific research and development

Question 7

Roosevelt’s Vice President

Answer 7

Harry Truman

Question 8

The day that marked the end of war in Europe

Answer 8

V-E Day

Question 9

This code was for the invasion of axis- controlled North Africa

Answer 9

Operation Torch

Question 10

convoys, sonar and radar helped the allies to win this battle

Answer 10

Battle of the Atlantic

Question 11

this general led the American troops that liberated paris from german occupation

Answer 11

George Patton

Question 12

The initial success of this German offensive battle was due mainly to the allies mean caught off guard

Answer 12

Battle of the Bulge

Question 13

This death camp was first liberated by the allies

Answer 13

Majdenek

Question 14

This general commanded operation overload, the allied invasion of Nazi- controlled Europe

Answer 14

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 15

This Army Chief of Staff pushed for the formation of a Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.

Answer 15

George Marshall

Question 16

This labor leader strongly encouraged President Roosevelt to issue an execultive order discouraging discrimination in the workplace.

Answer 16

A. Phillip Randolph

Question 17

This was the code name for the atomic bomb program

Answer 17

Manhattan Project

Question 18

Who were the two global fronts

Answer 18

Europe and the Pacific

Question 19

What Sergeant believed that there was more to basic training in teaching a recruit how to stand attention, March in step, handle a rifle, and follow orders

Answer 19

Deb myers

Question 20

What did other ethnicities think was their war to fight

Answer 20

To fight for their own freedom

Question 21

What ethnicity suffered a fifth of Los Angeles is wartime casualties

Answer 21

Mexican-Americans

Question 22

What was the last car to be rolled off the automakers assembly line

Answer 22

A gray sedan

Question 23

What did factories quickly have to convert to

Answer 23

War production

Question 24

This man had built seven massive new shipyards that turned out liberty ships, takers, troop transport, and baby aircraft carriers at an astonishing rate

Answer 24

Henry J Kaiser