Chapter 25 World War II

Question 1

During most of the 1930’s, Franklin Roosevelt understood that the only way to end the Great Depression was for what?

Answer 1

a major war to break out in Europe

Question 2

The War Powers Act established what?

Answer 2

a broad executive authority that would shape presidential power even after the war ended.

Question 3

What was the U.S. strategy employed in the Pacific?

Answer 3

Island Hopping

Question 4

Who were the code talkers?

Answer 4

soldiers during theworld warswho used their knowledge ofNative-Americanlanguages as a basis to transmit coded messages

Question 5

What did Rosie the Riveter represent?

Answer 5

American women who worked in factories

Question 6

What were the Zoot-Suit Riots

Answer 6

a series of riots that broke out in Los Angeles, California, between Anglo American sailors and Marines stationed in the city and Latino youths

Question 7

What did A. Philip Randolf do?

Answer 7

heorganized and led theBrotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly black labor union, led theMarch on Washington Movement, which convinced PresidentFranklin D. Rooseveltto issueExecutive Order 8802, banning discrimination in the defense industries

Question 8

What did the SPAB- Supply Priorities and Allocation Board do?

Answer 8

oversaw the use of scarce materials and resources

Question 9

What did the OPA- Office of Price Administration do?

Answer 9

it checked the threat of inflation

Question 10

What did the NWLB- National War Labor Board do?

Answer 10

mediated disputes between labor and management

Question 11

What did the WMC- War Manpower Commission do?

Answer 11

it directed the mobilization of military and civilian services

Question 12

What did the OWM- Office of War Mobilization do?

Answer 12

it coordinated operations among all the agencies

Question 13

What did the OWI- Office of War Information do?

Answer 13

engaged press, radio, and film industry in an informational campaign

Question 14

What was the Bracero Program

Answer 14

a series of laws and diplomatic agreements for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States

Question 15

What was the Manhattan project?

Answer 15

a research and development project that produced the firstatomic bombsduringWorld War II

Question 16

What event is related to this quote: “a date which will live in infamy”

Answer 16

Pearl Harbor

Question 17

Who was the father of American shipbuilding?

Answer 17

Henry Kaiser

Question 18

What was WAACs?

Answer 18

Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps

Question 19

What did the Nye Committee do?

Answer 19

investigated the financial and banking interests which underlayUnited States’ involvement inWorld War II

Question 20

Was the America First Committee pro or anti war?

Answer 20

anti war

Question 21

What did the Lend Lease Act promote?

Answer 21

the Defense of the United States

Question 22

What was the War Powers Act?

Answer 22

a federal law intended to check the president’s power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress

Question 23

What did Korematsu v. U.S. concern?

Answer 23

the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship

Question 24

Who were the Big Three?

Answer 24

Joseph Stalin, FDR, and Winston Churchill

Question 25

What was Operation Overlord code name for?

Answer 25

theBattle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western EuropeduringWorld War IIbyAlliedforces

Question 26

What theater was George Patton known for leading in?

Answer 26

European theater

Question 27

What were the 6 major conferences in order?

Answer 27

Casablanca, Cairo, Tehran, Quebec, Yalta, Potsdam

Question 28

Who was the supreme commander of the allied Forces in Europe?

Answer 28

General Eisenhower?

Question 29

What was Lebensraum?

Answer 29

an important component of Nazi ideology in which territorial expansionism is used to gain Lebensraum as being a law of nature for all healthy and vigorous peoples of superior races to displace people of inferior races

Question 30

What were the Nuremberg Laws?

Answer 30

antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party

Question 31

What happened at Dunkirk?

Answer 31

an important battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany in which the British and French forces retreated to Great Britain.

Question 32

What did the Atlantic Charter define?

Answer 32

the Allied goals for the post-war world

Question 33

Where did Operation Torch take place?

Answer 33

French North Africa

Question 34

Who was the “desert fox”

Answer 34

General Erwin Rommel of the British Eighth Army

Question 35

Who was Douglas MacArthur

Answer 35

an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II

Question 36

What happened at the Bataan Death March?

Answer 36

the forcible transfer by theImperial Japanese Armyof 60,000–80,000 Filipino and Americanprisoners of warafter the three-monthBattle of Bataanin thePhilippinesduringWorld War II

Question 37

What were the two cities destroyed by the atomic bomb?

Answer 37

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 38

What major region did Japan invade?

Answer 38

Manchuria

Question 39

What is Nisei

Answer 39

a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America, South America and Australia to specify the children born to Japanese people in a new country