End of WWII and WWII on the Home front Vocab

Question 1

Island Hopping?

Answer 1

Going towards Toyko to seize nearby islands to deprive them of supplies and make airplane bases for the US

Question 2

Kamikaze?

Answer 2

Suicide pilots from Japanthat could plunge into ships in hopes of sinking them
They were generally teenage boys and it was a great honor to their families

Question 3

Braceros?

Answer 3

Enployment increased for Mexicans to work as farm laborers

Question 4

Zoot Suit Riots?

Answer 4

Thousands of off duty mexican soldiers and sailors joined with hundreds of civilian whites assulted Hispanics, Blacks, and Filipinos in Los Angeles

Question 5

Rationing?

Answer 5

Created by the OPA
Rationed sugar, cheese, gasoline, rubber, and coffee
National speed limit was 35 mph
Recycle as much to build more military supplies

Question 6

Office of War Mobilization?

Answer 6

If govt wanted production to increase, then they must regulate and direct industrial production

Question 7

Office of Censorship?

Answer 7

designed to promote patrotism and influene public opinion
eamined letters going overseas
causualty figures from pearl harbor were not initially reported
photos of american war dead prohibited for a while
Later the media was encouraged to publicize accounts of Japanese autrocities vs US

Question 8

A Philip Randolph?

Answer 8

Blck leader who organized a march on DC in 1941 to pressure FDR to issue an executive order to ban discrimination industries
Executive Order 8802

Question 9

War Production Board - WPB?

Answer 9

produced more military goods than Germany, Italy, Japan combined
Conversio of economy from civilian to military suplies

Question 10

Office of Price Administration - OPA?

Answer 10

in charge of rationing and was empowere to establish price controls to counteract the war time inflation
Created ration books

Question 11

Executive Order 9066?

Answer 11

110,000 JA were relocated into internment camps
2/3 were US citizens
Most camps were in the remote parts of the west

Question 12

Rosie the Riveter?

Answer 12

Iconic image of woman dressed in overalls who became the symbol women in the male workforce launched by the govt

Question 13

American Civil Labor Union?

Answer 13

Tries to get the liberties back from the 9066

Tries to get liberties back when they are infringed on

Question 14

Congress of Racial Equality (1942)?

Answer 14

Created Civil Rights Organization during WWII that comitted itself to using nonviolent techniues to end racial segregation

Question 15

What was the Supreme Court case that got rid of internment camps?

Answer 15

Korematsu v US

Question 16

Manhattan Project?

Answer 16

Used University professors to create and test the first atomic bombs

Question 17

National War Labor Board - NWLB

Answer 17

Imposed stopping the increasing wages

Question 18

Yalta Conference?

Answer 18

Big 3 meet again
Germany accepts defeat
Decided UN continues
UNITED NATIONS: continued 
MOST CONTROVERSIAL: EASTERN EUROPE - especially POLAND
Free Elections: STALIN promised
USSR: desired a “buffer zone” from Germany
ROOTS OF COLD WAR

Question 19

Fair Employment Practices?

Answer 19

Created by FDR after Randolph marched on DC and gave people equality without discrimination in the defense industry

Question 20

Potsdam Conference

Answer 20

GERMANY = DEMILITARIZED
NAZI influence = PURGED from German Culture
UNDECIDED:
Reparations
Occupation of Germany
RESULT = TENSION INCREASED B/T WESTERN ALLIES & USSR

Question 21

Battle of Bulge?

Answer 21

Hitler;’s last attempt to win the war 12/16/44-1/25/45

Question 22

VE Day?

Answer 22

Victory in Europe

5/8/45

Question 23

VJ Day?

Answer 23

Victory in Japan

9/2/45

Question 24

D-Day?

Answer 24

6/6/45
Normandy landing
Liberated Paris

Question 25

War Bonds

Answer 25

debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war

Question 26

Code Talkers?

Answer 26

Navajo

Use their languange so that Germany and the axis couldnt decifer allied messages

Question 27

Office of War Mobilization?

Answer 27

coordinate all government agencies involved in the war effort

Question 28

Office of Information?

Answer 28

consolidate existing government information services and deliver propaganda both at home and abroad

Question 29

Victory Gardens?

Answer 29

were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany

Question 30

Iwo Jima?

Answer 30

Battle of Iwo Jima was fought between the Japanese army and the United States Marine
japan fights thee Last Man

Question 31

Okinawa?

Answer 31

Allied forces invade the island of Okinawa and engage the Japanese in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War.
japan fights thee Last Man

Question 32

Atlantic Charter?

Answer 32

A broad war aims statement from Churchill and FDR

Question 33

Battle of Stalingrad?

Answer 33

Nazis on defensive war for the rest of the war