Pearl Harbor - Homefront

Question 1

U.S commander of the pacific theater
Promises his men that “ I shall return”

Answer 1

Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Question 2

In charge of the “Suicide Mission” 80 volunteers

Answer 2

Col James Doolittle

Question 3

American fleet commander

Answer 3

Admiral Chester Nimitz

Question 4

Stops the invasion of Australia

Answer 4

Battle of the coral sea

Question 5

US Defeats the Japs and stop their planned invasions of Hawaii

Answer 5

Battle of midway

Question 6

6 months of bloody fighting to control airfields
-first major island taken from the japs

Answer 6

Battle of Guadalcanal

Question 7

American strategy to win the pacific theater.
Get close to lunch bombing attacks on Japan

Answer 7

“Island hopping”

Question 8

The systematic mass slaughter of the jews and others

Answer 8

The Holocaust

Question 9

Head of the ss ( Black shirts) were in charge of the holocaust

Answer 9

Heinrich Himmler

Question 10

Dug trenches and were machined gunned to death

Answer 10

Einsatzgruppen

Question 11

Jews rounded up in cities (Poland) closed and sealed off behind barbed wire and forced to work and would starve to death

Answer 11

Ghettos

Question 12

Jews gassed in shower and cremated in ovens
DC: used to exterminate people
(Auschwitz)

Answer 12

Death camps / gas chambers

Question 13

Shipped to death camps

Answer 13

Holding tanks

Question 14

Dutch Christian who his Jews “Hiding place”

Answer 14

Corrie Ten Boom

Question 15

Businessman who gave his life saving Jews

Answer 15

Oskar Schindler

Question 16

German protestant pastor who gave his life “ The cost of discipleship”

Answer 16

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Question 17

Jewish girl who wrote a diary - “diary of Anne frank”

Answer 17

Anne Frank

Question 18

Held prisoners at war mostly in Germany

Answer 18

POW camps

Question 19

used slave labor to help the German war effort many worked to death

Answer 19

Work camps

Question 20

Rules of war

Answer 20

Geneva Convention

Question 21

The activites of civilians in a nation at war.

Answer 21

Homefront

Question 22

Everything/ Everyone involved in war effort in some ways

Answer 22

Total war

Question 23

Rise an army

Answer 23

Soldiers were called GI’s

Question 24

Symbol of the American women 1/3 of the workforce

Answer 24

Rosie the riveter

Question 24

Food, and supplies such as gas, tires and clothing

Answer 24

Rationing Books

Question 25

People grew food for the war

Answer 25

Victory Gardens

Question 26

Permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the united states on short term labor contracts

Answer 26

Bracero program

Question 27

Loans given to the Gov.

Answer 27

War bonds