chapter 20

Question 1

What is the double v

Answer 1

african american newspaper tjt urged the African Americans to support the war to achieve a double victory

Question 2

What was the automobile that was produced in WW2

Answer 2

tanks

Question 3

what is the selective service training act

Answer 3

plan for the first peacetime draft in america history.

Question 4

what replaced short range bomber

Answer 4

b 25

Question 5

what general invaded north Africa

Answer 5

George Patton and Dwight D Eisenhower

Question 6

what is a victory suit

Answer 6

a suit w no vest cuffs, a short jacket to save fabric for the war

Question 7

what is the sunbelt

Answer 7

when people moved to the mid west and morth east to work during the war for work

Question 8

what campaign invasion of the south west pacific

Answer 8

southwest pacific theater

Question 9

when was the united nations formed

Answer 9

October 24, 1945

Question 10

what germans goal battle of bulge

Answer 10

to cut off allied supplies in Belgium

Question 11

cost-plus

Answer 11

the government agrees to pay the company whatever it cost to make a product plus the cost of the profit

Question 12

Liberty-ship

Answer 12

basic cargo ship used

Question 13

disfranchise

Answer 13

African Americans denied the right to vote

Question 14

reconstruction fiance

Answer 14

government agency set up during the depression to make loans to companies

Question 15

war production board

Answer 15

they could set priorities and production goals and control the distribution

Question 16

periphery

Answer 16

edges

Question 17

convoy system

Answer 17

where cargo ships traveled in groups so they would not be bombed

Question 18

Chester Nimitz

Answer 18

admiral commander of the us navy in the pacific

Question 19

Douglas McCarthy

Answer 19

general who was fighting in the Philippians

Question 20

James Doolittle

Answer 20

colonel who was in charge of landing in china after attacking japan

Question 21

George Patton

Answer 21

general who captured the city of Casablanca

Question 22

rationing

Answer 22

limiting the availability of products

Question 23

victory garden

Answer 23

gardens that the government encouraged to people to have so that the American war people would have food

Question 24

roise the riveter

Answer 24

a great symbol of the campaign. was popular in the song four vegabonds

Question 25

a Phillip Randolph

Answer 25

head of the brotherhood of a sleeping car porters

Question 26

zoot suit

Answer 26

very baggy pleated pants. which most Americans did not like

Question 27

e bond

Answer 27

most common type of bond which the government set into place to raise money

Question 28

amphtrac

Answer 28

an amphibious tractor made to rescue people in florida swamps

Question 29

kamikaze

Answer 29

divine wind or a storm that that destroyed the mongol fleet during an invasion of japan

Question 30

casablanca confrence

Answer 30

when Roosevelt and Churchill decided to step up the bombing of Germany

Question 31

oporation overload

Answer 31

code name for a planned invasion

Question 32

dday

Answer 32

the day that an invasion could begin