Unit 6 Test

Question 1

George Marshall

Answer 1

Army Chief of Staff General, founder of WAAC

Question 2

WAAC

Answer 2

Women volunteers would serve in noncombat positions

Question 3

Manhattan Project

Answer 3

The US program to develop an atomic bomb for use in WW2

Question 4

OPA

Answer 4

Fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods and rationed food

Question 5

WPB

Answer 5

Rationed fuel and materials vital to the war effort

Question 6

rationing

Answer 6

Establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military

Question 7

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 7

American general who commanded Operation Torch, an invasion on Axis controlled North Africa

Question 8

D-Day

Answer 8

June 6, 1944, the first day of the invasion. Shortly after midnight, three divisions parachuted down behind German lines. They were followed in the early morning hours by thousands upon thousands of seaborne soldiers.

Question 9

George Patton

Answer 9

General of the Third Army, liberated France from Germany

Question 10

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 10

A month long battle of WWII, in which the Allies succeeded in turning back the last major German offensive of the war

Question 11

V-E Day

Answer 11

May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day

Question 12

Harry Truman

Answer 12

Vice President of Roosevelt, became president on April 12, 1945

Question 13

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 13

General who commanded the Allied forces on the Philippines islands

Question 14

Chester Nimitz

Answer 14

The commander of American naval forces in the Pacific

Question 15

Battle of Midway

Answer 15

WWII battle that took place in early June 1942. The Allies decimated the Japanese fleet at Midway, an island lying northwest of Hawaii. The Allies then took the offensive in the Pacific and began to move closer to Japan.

Question 16

kamikaze

Answer 16

suicide plane

Question 17

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 17

American scientist who was part of the development of the atomic bomb

Question 18

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 18

They were two Japanese places where the Americans dropped an atomic bomb, leading to Japan’s surrender.

Question 19

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 19

The court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after WWII, in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes.

Question 20

GI Bill of Rights

Answer 20

Bill that provided education and training for veterans, paid for by the federal government

Question 21

CORE

Answer 21

An interracial organization, founded by James Farmer, that was created to confront urban segregation in the North.

Question 22

internment

Answer 22

confinement of 1,444 Japanese Americans

Question 23

JACL

Answer 23

It pushed the government to compensate those sent to the camps for their lost property.

Question 24

Joseph Stalin

Answer 24

Last name means “man of steel,” took control of soviet union in 1924, made agricultural and industrial growth prime goals of soviet union

Question 25

totalitarian

Answer 25

characteristic of a political system in which the government exercises complete control over its citizens’ lives

Question 26

Benibo Mussolini

Answer 26

established totalitarian regime on Italy; unemployment and inflation produced strikes; middle and upper class demanded stronger leadership

Question 27

Adolf Hitler

Answer 27

Became leader of the Nazi party, believed Aryans were the master race, and all other races should bow before them

Question 28

nazism

Answer 28

the political philosophy based on extreme nationalism, racism, and militaristic expansion that Hilter put into effect in Germany from 1922 to 1945

Question 29

Neutrality Acts

Answer 29

a series of laws preventing the sale of US arms to nations at war

Question 30

appeasement

Answer 30

the granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace

Question 31

nonaggression pact

Answer 31

an agreement in which two nations promise not to go to war with each other

Question 32

blitzkrieg

Answer 32

German word “lightning war;” a sudden, massive attack with combined air and ground forces, intended to achieve a quick victory

Question 33

Holocaust

Answer 33

The massive extermination of Jews and other groups in Europe that were “against” Hilter

Question 34

Kristallnacht

Answer 34

“Night of broken glass;” a name given to the night on Nov 9, 1938, when a gang of Nazis storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues in Germany

Question 35

genocide

Answer 35

the deliberate murder of an entire population

Question 36

concentration camp

Answer 36

where Hilter put all of the Jews, and either put them to work or gassed them

Question 37

Axis powers

Answer 37

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 38

Lend-Lease Act

Answer 38

Allowed US to send arms to nations at war without immediate payment

Question 39

Atlantic Charter

Answer 39

a 1942 declaration of principles in which the US and Great Britain set forth their goals in opposing the Axis powers

Question 40

Allies

Answer 40

Britain, Soviet Union, and the US; anyone against the Axis powers

Question 41

Hideki Tojo

Answer 41

the chief of staff of Japan’s Kwantung Army; launched an invasion into China in 1937. Britain was too busy fighting Hitler to block the invasion