History B

Question 1

Extreme economic conditions lead to the rise of?

Answer 1

extreme leaders

Question 2

Maginot Line

Answer 2

forts along the French and German border protecting France from German troops

Question 3

Battle of Britain?

Answer 3

Britain had beat Germany

Question 4

Why did America not want to get involved with WWII?

Answer 4

Their military force had not been ready yet and _____ thought that why should America fix the world’s problems when we can’t even fix our own country’s problems? Americans also realized the brutality of war and didn’t want to go through (war) again.

Question 5

What brought America into WW2?

Answer 5

The attack of Pearl Harbor

Question 6

What was the Bataan Death March?

Answer 6

Japan forced 78,000 Filipino and American prisoners to march through the Philippines with no food or water. They were badly beaten.

Question 7

What happened at the Battle of Midway?

Answer 7

Japan was going to attack Midway but the U.S. had invaded/ambushed the attack by breaking into their codes sinking 4 Japanese ships.

Question 8

Battle of Leyte Gulf

Answer 8

Largest naval battle in WW2, the U.S. won to capture the island because they had a better navy. Japan ran out of ships and experienced pilots so they drafted regular Japanese men and taught them how to fly planes but there was so little time to learn how to control it in battle so they did KAMIKAZES or suicide missions where they just dived into American ships.

Question 9

Iwo Jima

Answer 9

The U.S. invaded Iwo Jima on February 19th, 1945. 7000 marines were killed, and they captured 216 Japanese and the U.S. secured/took the island. 5 days after the battle, 5 guys rose the American flag.

Question 10

Aleutians

Answer 10

The U.S. and Japan fought for these Alaskan islands, Attu and Kiska, that Japan had seized. This battle was to divert U.S. troops during the attack at Midway. U.S. eventually retook both islands.

Question 11

What is Appeasement?

Answer 11

giving into a bully in exchange for peace

Question 12

German warfare strategy?

Answer 12

blitzkrieg (lighting attacks)

Question 13

What is a Zoot Suit?

Answer 13

An oversized suit with high-waisted, baggy pants and a long coat with wide lapels.

Question 14

Who worked in factories during WW2?

Answer 14

Women because most men were fighting in the war.

Question 15

What were internment camps?

Answer 15

It was a prison camp for enemy allies, prisoners of war, etc.

Question 16

What role did African Americans play in WW2?

Answer 16

They were Tuskegee Airmen, over 200 missions where they guided bombers to their locations and none were ever lost. They also built the Alaska highway which was to connect the U.S. to Alaska through Canada.

Question 17

What is a Liberty Ship?

Answer 17

They were big cargo ships that did “cash and carry” which was to ferry supplies to allies. These ships were made differently, they were welded and not bolted together.

Question 18

What was Operation Overload?

Answer 18

the code name of the attack that they planned against Germany where they surround them so they have no chance of winning aka D-day

Question 19

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 19

After recapturing France, the Allied advance became stalled along the German border. In the winter of 1944, Germany staged a massive counterattack in Belgium and Luxembourg which pushed a 30-mile “bulge” into the Allied lines. The Allies stopped the German advance and threw them back across the Rhine with heavy losses.

Question 20

Why was Iwo Jima so important?

Answer 20

It was important because it served as an emergency landing site for more than 2,200 B-29 bombers, saving 2400 U.S. Airmen.

Question 21

Adolf Hitler

Answer 21

German politician and dictator of Germany. Leader of Nazi Party.

Question 22

Franklin Roosevelt

Answer 22

U.S President

Question 23

Douglas MacArther

Answer 23

American Military Leader

Question 24

Harry Truman

Answer 24

Vice President of the U.S.

Question 25

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 25

U.S. President, military officer, and supreme commander of Troops invading France.

Question 26

Hirohito

Answer 26

Emperor of Japan

Question 27

Japanese Internment Camps

Answer 27

Camps were established by President Roosevelt through his Executive Order. Took all Japanese of the west coast to the camps. About 110,000 were taken, U.S born were called Nesi and Japan-born were called Issei. Many were children and teens. They lost their freedom, families shared a single room, and there were harsh weather conditions because of the isolated locations. Japanese had established schools, government bodies, baseball teams, music/art, planted vegetables/gardens, and religious services in the camp to maintain a “normal” life. U.S. then asked for volunteers to draft in the military, and over 800 men went. The U.S. government issued a formal apology to all former internees and paid $20,000 to each surviving internee. The government acknowledged that the internment had been based on “race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.”