Module 20

Question 1

Neutrality Acts

Answer 1

Laws passed by Congress to ban the sale of arms or loans to nations at war

Question 2

Axis Powers

Answer 2

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 3

Selective Training and Service Act

Answer 3

First peacetime military draft under which 16 defense was vital to the United States

Question 4

Atlantic Charter

Answer 4

British and American statement of war goals

Question 5

Allies

Answer 5

Group of nations, including the United States , Britain, and the Soviet Union, who opposed the Axis powers

Question 6

George Marshall

Answer 6

Army chief of staff during World War II

Question 7

Women Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)

Answer 7

Women volunteers who served in noncombatant positions

Question 8

Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Answer 8

Agency of the federal government that fought inflation

Question 9

War Production Board (WPB)

Answer 9

Government agency that decided which companies would make war materials and how to distribute raw materials

Question 10

Rationing

Answer 10

Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military

Question 11

Manhattan Project

Answer 11

Secret research project that resulted in the atomic bomb

Question 12

A. Philip Randolph

Answer 12

Important African American labor leader

Question 13

James Farmer

Answer 13

Civil rights leader who founded the Congress of Racial Equality

Question 14

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Answer 14

Interracial organization formed to fight discrimination

Question 15

Internment

Answer 15

Confinement under guard, especially during wartime

Question 16

Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)

Answer 16

Civil rights group formed by Japanese Americans

Question 17

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 17

American general who commanded Allied forces; 34th president of the United States

Question 18

D-Day

Answer 18

Allied invasion to liberate Europe

Question 19

Omar Bradley

Answer 19

American general who led American forces at Normandy

Question 20

George Patton

Answer 20

American general who helped liberate Paris

Question 21

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 21

German counteroffensive in December 1944

Question 22

Douglass MacArthur

Answer 22

American commander in the Philippines

Question 23

Bataan death March

Answer 23

Forced march of captured American and Filipino troops

Question 24

Chester Nimitz

Answer 24

Commander of American naval forces in the Pacific

Question 25

Battle of Midway

Answer 25

American victory that was the turning point in the Pacific War

Question 26

Island hopping

Answer 26

Allies’ method of combining land, sea, and air forces to capture and secure islands

Question 27

Kamikaze

Answer 27

Japanese suicide flight

Question 28

United Nations (UN)

Answer 28

World peacekeeping organization created after World War II

Question 29

V-E Day

Answer 29

Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945

Question 30

Harry S. Truman

Answer 30

33rd president of the United Sates

Question 31

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 31

Scientist who led the Manhattan Project

Question 32

Hiroshima

Answer 32

City that was the sight of the first atomic bomb dropping in Japan

Question 33

Nagasaki

Answer 33

Japanese city that was the site of the second atomic bomb dropping

Question 34

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 34

Tribunal that tried Nazi leaders for war crimes

Question 35

GI Bill of Rights

Answer 35

Law passed by Congress to help servicemen readjust to civillian life