USH Unit 8 Flashcards

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1
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Deprived of the right to vote

A

Disenfranchised

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2
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WAAC’s first director

A

Oveta Culp Hobby

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3
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Sr. promoted to Brigadier general, Jr. commanded Tuskegee Airmen

A

Benjamin O David Sr. and Jr.

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4
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First black aviators in the US Army Corps

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Tuskegee Airmen

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5
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African American battalion, commended for service during Battle of the Bulge

A

761st Tank Battalion

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6
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Government contracts to pay a manufacturer the cost to produce an item plus a guaranteed percentage

A

Cost plus contracts

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7
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Women’s (Auxiliary) Army Corps, women served in noncombat positions

A

WAAC/WAC

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8
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New industrial region created in southern California

A

Sun belt

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9
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Men’s clothing of extreme cut typically consisting of a thigh-length jacket with wide padded shoulders and baggy pants with narrow cuffs

A

Zoot suits

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10
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Supreme Court decision to uphold Japanese American internment

A

Korematsu vs. United States

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11
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Seven major shipyards along US west coast, granted wartime production contracts

A

Kaiser Shipyards

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12
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Protested discrimination in military and industry, organized a march on Washington

A

Phillip Randolph

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13
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Designed to ease labor shortages for Mexican farmworkers

A

Bracero Program

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14
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No vest, no cuffs, short jacket, narrow lapels

A

Victory suit

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15
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Restricting the amount of an item an individual can have due to a limited supply

A

Rationing

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16
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Garden planted by citizens during war to raise vegetables for home use, leaving more for troops

A

Victory Gardens

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17
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Improve public’s understanding of the war, produced propaganda

A

Office of War Information (OWI)

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18
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In charge of rationing

A

Office of Price Administration and Office of Economic Stability

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19
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Relocated many Japanese Americans to internment camps

A

Executive Order 9066 (EO9066)

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20
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Supreme Commander of US Forces in the Pacific

A

Douglass McArthur

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21
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US Naval Commander in the Pacific

A

Chester A. Nimitz

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22
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Led raid on Tokyo on April 18, 1942

A

Lt. Col James Doolittle

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23
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An amphibious tractor used to move troops from ship to shore

A

Amphtrac

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24
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During WW2, a Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target

A

Kamikaze

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25
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The outer boundary of something

A

Periphery

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26
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German commander known as “Desert Fox”

A

Erwin Rommel

27
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Commanded by Rommel in North Africa

A

Afrika Korps

28
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Supreme Allied commander in Europe

A

General Dwight Eisenhower

29
Q

Slams into German lines at Battle of Bulge, US wins

A

General George S. Patton

30
Q

The overall plan for the invasion and battle at Normandy

A

Operation Overlord

31
Q

An enclosure made of dirt walls covered in shrubbery built to fence in cattle and crops

A

Hedgerow

32
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A type of jellied gasoline

A

Napalm

33
Q

Becomes president when FDR dies of a stroke in April 1945

A

Harry S. Truman

34
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Air Force general who implemented strategic bombing campaign in Pacific

A

General Curtis Lemay

35
Q

Conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933

A

Leo Szilard

36
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In charge of the camp at Los Alamos, New Mexico

A

General Leslie Groves

37
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In charge of the think tank to build the atomic bomb

A

Robert J. Oppenheimer

38
Q

A political system header by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and often racism and no tolerance of opposition, implemented by Germany, Japan, and Italy

A

Fascism

39
Q

Written by Hitler, set forth the basic beliefs of Nazism that becomes the plan of action for the Nazi Party

A

Mein Kampf

40
Q

Hitler annexes Austria on March 11, 1938

A

Anschluss

41
Q

Czechs gave Hitler the Sudetenland in return for guarantee there would be no further German aggression

A

Munich Conference

42
Q

Giving in to unjust demands in order to avoid all-out conflict

A

Appeasement

43
Q

Agreement between Germany and USSR to avoid war and split Poland, August 1939, invasion of Poland brings Great Britain and France into war

A

Non-Aggression Pact

44
Q

Passed by Congress to keep the US out of war by making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms

A

Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937

45
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A national policy of actively trading with foreign countries to foster peace and prosperity

A

Internationalism

46
Q

Sale of military supplies to allies, they had to pay cash and transport the supplies on their own ship

A

Cash-and-carry

47
Q

Foremost US isolationist pressure group against American entry into WW2

A

America First Committee

48
Q

Set up a system that would allow the US to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed vital to US defense

A

Lend-Lease Act

49
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US and Britain, stated to seek no land gain in the war, respect principles of free trade, and give the right for people to choose their governments

A

Atlantic Charter

50
Q

Day of Pearl Harbor attack

A

December 7, 1941

51
Q

The intent to kill in whole or part a national, ethnic, religious, or racial group

A

Genocide

52
Q

Anti-Semitic laws against Jews, originated by the Nazi Government in 1935

A

Nuremberg Laws

53
Q

Night of Broken Glass, Nazis raided Jewish homes, stores, and killed Jewish people

A

Kristallnacht

54
Q

Carried +900 Jewish refugees in 1939 to escape persecution, denied permission to land in Cuba

A

St. Louis Affair

55
Q

A meeting in which the “final solution” and use of concentration camps were decided in 1942

A

Wannsee Conference

56
Q

A camp where men, women, and children were sent to be executed

A

Extermination Camps

57
Q

Founded Italy’s Fascist movement, became Europe’s first dictatorship

A

Benito Mussolini

58
Q

Lenin’s successor, Soviet dictator in 1926, began massive effort to industrialize the country using the Five-Year Plan

A

Joseph Stalin

59
Q

Leader of Nazi Party, wrote Mein Kampf which highlighted hatred for Jews and other minorities

A

Adolf Hitler

60
Q

Japanese minister of war, threatened to overthrow government when the emperor asked him to withdraw troops from China

A

Hideki Tojo

61
Q

Prime minister, pledged support to France, its ally

A

Neville Chamberlain

62
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French general, led the French resistance forces from the French colony of Algiers, refused to recognize French defeat

A

Charles de Gaulle

63
Q

British prime minister, vowed Britain would never surrender

A

Winston Churchill

64
Q

Polish Jew, shot a German diplomat, Nazis used his assassination as pretext to launch Kristallnacht

A

Herschel Grynszpan