WW2

Question 1

Neutrality Act of 1935

Answer 1

Congress passed a law that made it illegal for the US to sell other countries at war fire arms

Question 2

Neutrality Act of 1937

Answer 2

Cash and carry; pay in cash and you can use your ship

Question 3

Neutrality Act of 1939

Answer 3

Countries in war could buy weapons from the US but had to use cash and have their own ships for transport

Question 4

Doolittle Raid

Answer 4

Jimmy Doolittle
It was a raid on Japan for Pearl Harbor
Raised moral back home

Question 5

Who was the character in the poster “We can do it”

Answer 5

Rosie the Riveter

Question 6

Yalta Conference

Answer 6

Discuss reorganization of Germany after the war

Question 7

D-Day

Answer 7

Allies land on the coast of Normandy to open up a 2nd front

Question 8

Battle of Bulge

Answer 8

Beginning of the end of the war

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 9

Battle of Okinawa

Answer 9

Last major island to be taken before invading Japan

Question 10

Battle of Iwo Jima

Answer 10

The US needed the island for a base for bombers that might reach Japan.
Japan lost

Question 11

Little Boy

Answer 11

Landed in Hiroshima

Question 12

Fat Man

Answer 12

Landed in Nagasaki
Caused Japan to surrender, ending the war for America

Question 13

Why did Truman drop the bombs?

Answer 13

The casualties invading Japan would have been excessive

Question 14

Why was the battle of Midway a turning point in the war?

Answer 14

Damaged the Japanese army, lost a lot of weapons and soldiers

Question 15

An important strategy used by American forces in the Pacific was

Answer 15

Isolationism