Chapter 26 test Flashcards
The Battle of Java Sea
Crushed a fleet of American, British, Dutch, and Australian warships
Douglas MacArthur
Commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific
Bataan Death March
Forced movement of U.S. troops to prison camps in the Philippines
The Japanese advance on Australia was halted by
The Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Coral Sea
Allied victory that helped stop Japan’s offensive in the Pacific
The Battle of Midway
U.S. fighters, dive-bombers, and torpedo planes sank four Japanese aircraft carriers and shot down army planes
The Japanese sent a huge fleet to the Solomons
Hoping to regain Guadalcanal
The 1942 invasion of North Africa resulted in
Allied control of the Mediterranean
The Axis advance in North Africa was stopped at
The Battle of El Alamein
Under the direction of James F. Byrnes
The Office of War Mobilization coordinated government production and distribution of civilian goods
Lend-lease exchange
One form of Allied cooperation during World War II
The function of the War Production Board was to
Convert existing factories to wartime production
War Production Board
Supervised the conversion of U.S. factories from peacetime to wartime production
WASPs
One of several military organizations that accepted women as volunteers
Office of War Information
Coordinated the flow of war news in the United States
The United States mobilized for war by doing all of the following
- Passing the Selective Training and service Act
- Selling war bonds and rationing products
- Hiring women to take over traditionally male jobs
Internments
Relocation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans by the U.S. government
During World War II
Norman Mineta was one of many Japanese Americans imprisoned in relocation camps
A. Philip Randolph planned a march on Washington, D.C. in 1941 to
Protest job discrimination
Mexican Americans
Victims of violence during the zoot-suit riots
Women participated in the war effort by
- Replacing men in war plants
- Enrolling in the WAVEs
- Serving as nurses
North Africa
Territorial conquest giving the Allies increased control over the Mediterranean
The 1942 invasion of North Africa resulted in
Allied control of the Mediterranean
Sicily
Invasion site that cleared the way for an Allied assault on Mussolini’s Italy
After the successful invasion of Sicily in 1943
The Allies launched a successful assault on the Italian mainland
The Battle of the Atlantic began to
Turn in favor of the Allies
Battle of Atlantic
Allied victory resulting in part from improved sonar equipment
D-Day marked the
Allied invasion of France
Yalta
Conference site where Allied leaders agree to the postwar division of Germany
The Yalta Conference resulted in
Plans for the postwar division of Germany
Island hopping
Strategy of attacking certain Japanese-held positions in the Pacific and bypassing others
The Allies came within bombing distance of
Japanese cities by adopting an island-hopping policy
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Last, largest, and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific
The top secret program to develop the atomic bomb was known as
The Manhattan Project
The U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki finally caused
Japan to surrender in August 1945
Hiroshima
Target of an atomic bomb in Japan
United States
Allied country in the West that faced the problem of fighting the war on several fronts
Holocaust
Systematic slaughter of European Jews by Germany during World War II
The Holocaust was Nazi Germany’s
Systematic slaughter of European Jews
Superpowers
The United States and the Soviet Union after World War II
Revisionists
Historians who question accepted versions of historical events
Revisionists believe all of the following
- The war could have been won without atomic weapons
- Truman used the atomic bomb as a warning to the Soviet Union
- The war could have been won without an invasion of Japan
The following were consequences of World War II
- The U.S. emerged as a superpower
- Japan lost Manchuria to China
- The Soviet Union absorbed the Baltic nations
