World War 2

Question 1

How was the US economy transformed?

Answer 1

went from peace to war
went from surplus of workers to shortage
War Production Board tried to meet all war needs

Question 2

What did the Fair Employment Practice Committee do?

Answer 2

reported unfair labor practices
ensured fair treatment for AA workers
FDR filed Executive Order to prevent march on Washington to prevent another bonus army

Question 3

What was the OSRD secretly working on?

Answer 3

The Manhattan Project

radar & penicillin

Question 4

How did the US government finance the war?

Answer 4

encouraged citizens to buy war bonds

Question 5

What was the first Allied land offensive?

Answer 5

Operation Torch (N.Africa)

Question 6

What happened to the African Corp?

Answer 6

Trapped in Tunisia
Forced to surrender
Became prisoners of war

Question 7

What were the results of the Battle of Stalingrad?

Answer 7

Soviets won by pushing Germans back to Germany

Question 8

What happened to Dresden, Germany?

Answer 8

set on fire by Allied bombers

Question 9

What was the stepping stone in Europe?

Answer 9

Sicily- it made a way to bomb Germany by controlling Italy

Question 10

What was the Battle of the Bulge?

Answer 10

last German counter attack
Germans lost
Allies won

Question 11

Who is Douglas MacArthur?

Answer 11

Supreme commander of the Pacific

commanded Allied forces in Philippines

Question 12

Who was Colonel James Doolittle?

Answer 12

pilot who bombed Japan

Question 13

What was the strategy behind island hopping?

Answer 13

bypass Japanese strongholds

Question 14

Why did the US place a trade embargo on Japan?

Answer 14

Japan took over French military bases in Indochina to stop all China’s imports (including US war supplies)

Question 15

What happened on the USS Augusta?

Answer 15

FDR & Churchill drafted the Atlantic Charter

Question 16

Why did Hideki Tojo order the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Answer 16

He promised the emperor Hirohito that he would try to maintain peace

Question 17

The invasion of what country needed aid from the US?

Answer 17

China

Question 18

What invaded country did Britain and France declare war for?

Answer 18

Poland

Question 19

What area did Germany militarize even after the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 19

Rhineland

Question 20

What country’s parliament was voted to be taken over by Germany?

Answer 20

Austria

Question 21

What was the Big Three Alliance?

Answer 21

Soviet Union, US, and Britain

Question 22

Who was A Philip Randolph?

Answer 22

activist who produced a mass march on Washington, D.C. designed to pressure the U.S. government into desegregating the armed forces and providing fair working opportunities for African Americans

Question 23

What was the purpose of the Yalta conference?

Answer 23

Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt discussed Europe’s postwar reorganization- the re-establishment of the nations conquered and destroyed by Germany