Terms

Question 1

Island hoping

Answer 1

Where allied forces took only the most strategically important islands, instead of each Japanese-held island

Question 2

D-Day

Answer 2

Designated day

Question 3

Manhattan project

Answer 3

A secret program with a goal to develop an atomic bomb

Question 4

Kamikaze

Answer 4

Purposely crashing piloted planes into enemy ships

Question 5

Selective training and service act…

Answer 5

The first peacetime draft in the country’s history. Men from 21 to 35 were required to register for the draft.

Question 6

Enola gay

Answer 6

The b-29 bomber who dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Question 7

Cash and carry…

Answer 7

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Question 8

Totalitarianism

Answer 8

Where the government controls every aspect of citizens’ lives.

Question 8

Fascism

Answer 8

Political system where the state or government is seen as more important than individuals

Question 9

Allied powers

Answer 9

Britain, France, America, Russia

Question 10

Axis powers

Answer 10

Japan, Germany, Italy

Question 11

Appeasement

Answer 11

Policy of avoiding war with an aggressive nation by giving to its demands

Question 12

Lend-lease act

Answer 12

Allowing the president to aid any nation believed vital to US defense

Question 13

War production board WPB

Answer 13

Government created it to oversee the conversion of factories to war production

Question 14

Tuskegee airmen

Answer 14

African American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee army air field in Alabama. Benjamin Davis jr. led the group.

Question 15

Zoot suit riots

Answer 15

June 1943

Groups of sailors attacked Mexican Americans wearing zoot suits for 10 days.

Question 16

Internment

Answer 16

Forces relocation and imprisonment. Americans did this to Japanese and Germans and Italians

Question 17

Genocide

Answer 17

The extermination of an entire group of people

Question 18

Kristallnacht and blitzkreig

Answer 18

1- night of broken glass where many homes and businesses were destroyed by nazis.
2- lightening war