WW2 Worksheet - P2

Question 1

Code Talkers

Answer 1

Navajo language to code communication

Question 2

Role of African Americans in the War

Answer 2

Why die for
democracy for some foreign country when we don’t even have it here?”

one million African Americans also served in the military. African-
American soldiers lived and worked in segregated units and were limited
mostly to noncombat roles. After much protest, African Americans did finally see
combat beginning in April 1943

Question 3

Rationing

Answer 3

establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military.

Under this system, households received ration books with coupons to be used for buying such scarce goods as meat, shoes, sugar, coffee, and gasoline.

Gas rationing

Question 4

The Draft

Answer 4

Started before we entered the war

required all men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register for potential military service. Later expanded to 18 to 65 after pearl harbor

Question 5

Iwo Jima

Answer 5

Marines raise the flag on Mt. Suribachi

MacArthur

Question 6

Okinawa

Answer 6

Battle for Okinawa – 7,600 Americans and 110,000 Japanese die.

This shows how costly an invasion of mainland Japan would be.

Experts estimated that an invasion of mainland Japan would cost up to 1 million US lives.

Question 7

Island Hopping

Answer 7

General Douglas MacArthur leads US troops (mostly Marines) in “Island Hopping” campaign to take back islands captured by Japan

Question 8

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 8

General Douglas MacArthur leads US troops (mostly Marines) in “Island Hopping” campaign to take back islands captured by Japan
1. Battles for the Philippines, Guadalcanal, many others
2. Iwo Jima – Marines raise the flag on Mt. Suribachi
3. Japanese refuse to surrender and often booby-trap themselves

Question 9

Chester Nimitz

Answer 9

Admiral Chester Nimitz leads the Naval war in the Pacific. – Ships rarely see each other, planes do most of the fighting.

1st major use of aircraft carriers

B. Coral Sea, Midway, and Leyte Gulf are major victories for the US

Question 10

Manhattan Project

Answer 10

US Government began a top- secret project in 1938 using atoms to
create a very powerful bomb

Question 11

Oppenheimer

Answer 11

develops the top secret atomic bomb

Question 12

Nuremburg Trials

Answer 12

put 24 surviving Nazi leaders on trial for crimes against human-
ity, crimes against the peace, and war crimes.

Question 13

Yalta Conference

Answer 13

decide what to do with Germany once it had been defeated

Question 14

V1/V2 Rocket Programs

Answer 14

The V1 missile, once launched, flew without a pilot until it ran out of fuel and came crashing down, blowing up.

The V2 rocket was a long distance weapon that could travel at the speed of sound.

Question 15

Importance of Sicily

Answer 15

Invasion of Sicily, (July 9–August 17, 1943), led directly to the fall of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and the surrender of the Italian government to the Allies.

Question 16

The Soft Underbelly of Europe

Answer 16

attacking Germany through Italy - their soft spot - Churchill

Question 17

Kamikaze

Answer 17

suicide-plane

Question 18

Importance of the Alps

Answer 18

“None shall pass”. By containing the Italians at the border and slowing down the German advance,

Question 19

10th Mt Division

Answer 19

Fought in Italy and the alps - 114 days of combat

Question 20

Enola Gay

Answer 20

1st bomb - August 6, 1945 – “Enola Gay” piloted by Paul Tibbets drops bomb “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, killing 70,000
instantly

2nd bomb 3 days later
August 9, 1945 - Second bomb, “Fat Man” drops on Nagasaki killing 80,000

Japan surrenders September 2, 1945
aboard the USS Missouri, ending WWII – V-J Day

atomic bomb ends the war