Chapter 26

Question 1

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 1

The major cause of Eisenhower’s political success was that he was popular because he was the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces and has led the successful D-Day Invasion

Question 2

Rosie the Riveter

Answer 2

A famous WWII image that symbolized the importance of female industrial workforce

Question 3

Enola Gay

Answer 3

The name of the US plane that dropped the first atom bomb on Hiroshima. On august 6, 1945, an American B-29, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic weapon on the Japanese industrial center at Hiroshima. Killing 80K Japs

Question 4

Guadalcanal

Answer 4

The US ultimately won this battle, which lasted six months, but forced the Japan to abandon a strategic island in the South Pacific.

Question 5

Korematsu vs US

Answer 5

the outcome of the Supreme Court case Korematsu v. US was that it ruled that it was legal for the federal government to incarcerate Japanese Americans because of their heritage

Question 6

Manhattan Project

Answer 6

Steps :1) US hears that the Nazis are trying to build an atomic bomb. 2) The US spends $2 Billion to create an atomic bomb. 3) The US uses an atomic weapon against Japan

Question 7

Office of Price Administration

Answer 7

It used its government powers to freeze prices, wages, and rents, thereby preventing inflation

Question 8

D-Day

Answer 8

The US and the Allies had almost 3 million troops complete a naval invasion of Nazi occupied France

Question 9

Enrico Fermi

Answer 9

He both discovered radioactivity of uranium and achieved the first controlled fission chain reaction

Question 10

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 10

The US and the Allies defeated the last major Nazi Army in Western Europe

Question 11

Holocaust

Answer 11

The US resisted admitting large numbers of Jewish refugees: Almost 90% of the visas permitted by law remained untouched

Question 12

Hiroshima

Answer 12

Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, Nagasaki was bombed on August 9, on August 14 Japan surrended unconditionally

Question 13

Midway

Answer 13

By winning this battle, the United States regained control of the Central Pacific

Question 14

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Answer 14

The NAACP relied on legal challenges to change laws. CORE used more confrontational tactics such as sit-ins and demonstrations to challenge segregation. CORES defiant spirit would survive into the 1950s and help produce the civil rights movement.

Question 15

Zoot Suits

Answer 15

Mexican American Teenagers, whose stylish clothes was a symbol that WWII was the first time that African American families had found high paying factory work in significant numbers