WW11

Question 1

What bill allowed women to volunteer to serve in non combat positions

Answer 1

WAAC

women’s auxiliary army corps

Question 2

WAVES

Answer 2

Women accepted for volunteer emergency service

Navy

Question 3

WAFS

Answer 3

Women’s auxiliary ferrying squadron

Air Force

Question 4

WASP

Answer 4

Women air force service piolets

Air Force

Question 5

SPAR

Answer 5

Demoed Paramus and it’s English translation always ready

Coast guard

Question 6

What did Einstein do

Answer 6

Let America know Germany may already have the bomb

Question 7

What was the goal of the manhattan project

Answer 7

Produce a self sustaining atomic chain reaction where particles released from the splitting of one atom would cause another atom to break apart

Question 8

What did they need for tee most powerful bomb ever

Answer 8

A special kind of uranium

Plutonium

Question 9

What did Leo Szilard do

Answer 9

Discovered nuclear chain reaction (fission)

Patented idea for nuclear reactor

Question 10

What did enrico Fermi do

Answer 10

Italian

Managed the chain reaction necessary for desired nuclear effect

Question 11

What did John Oppenheimer do

Answer 11

Was in charge present at first site in Mexico

Question 12

Why did Truman decide to use the bomb

Answer 12

End the war in Japan to save further American casualties

Show soviets we have it

Question 13

Ebola gay

Answer 13

The b-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb

Question 14

Little boy

Answer 14

Uranium
Hiroshima
More people

Question 15

Fat man

Answer 15

Nagasaki

Plutonium

Question 16

What developed the colored personnel for the aviation service

Answer 16

Civil aeronautics authority

Question 17

Home field was

Answer 17

Selfridge field

Question 18

Internment camps were in

Answer 18

Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Wyoming and Utah

Question 19

Issei

Answer 19

Japanese American immigrants

Grandparents

Question 20

Nisei

Answer 20

Children of Japanese immigrants
Born in America
Parents

Question 21

Sansei

Answer 21

Second and third generation

Question 22

Did Canada do the same for internment

Answer 22

Yes greatest mass movement in Canada

Question 23

What were freed retainers given

Answer 23

23 dollars and a train ticket home

Question 24

Korematsu vs us

Answer 24

JA takes case to Supreme Court
Court upholds internment for national security
Case later criticized as mistake

Question 25

1970s redress movement

Answer 25

Wanted a government apology and monetary compensation

Question 26

What acknowledged internment from racial prejudice

Answer 26

Civil liberties act

Question 27

Which president provided redress for surviving detainees

Answer 27

Ronald regan

Question 28

What was agreed at halts conference

Answer 28

Divide Germany into four zones
Elections held in countries of Eastern Europe
Poland both communist and not
Set up United Nations

Question 29

When did leaders meet again

Answer 29

Potsdam

Question 30

Potsdam conference

Answer 30

Truman replaces FDR
Churchill voted out
Reparations from Germany
Bring nazi war criminals to trial

Question 31

Disagreements at Potsdam

Answer 31

Allies didn’t agree on how to divide Germany
Amount of reparations ok Germany
Soviet policy in Eastern Europe

Question 32

Cold War Stalin does what

Answer 32

Makes sure communist governments came to power in all countries of Eastern Europe
Salami tactics

Question 33

What did Russia take

Answer 33

Albania
Bulgaria
Poland
Hungary
Romania
Czech 
East Germany

Question 34

Manazar

Answer 34

Japanese internment camp