wwii p3

Question 1

a. philip randolph

Answer 1

march on washington movement

Question 2

zoot suit riots

Answer 2

suits worn by latino boys who got into fights with sailors

sailors attacking all mexicans

Question 3

racial tensions at home

Answer 3

blacks move north for work into crappy cities
1943 race riots
the worst in detroit 25 blacks and 9 whites die

Question 4

manhattan project

Answer 4

20$ billion
university of chicago is where the reaction occurred
oak ridge tennessee made for project uranium
hanford engineer works plutonium experiments
los almos nm where the bomb was built
alamogordo nm where the bomb was tested

Question 5

general macarthur

Answer 5

oversaw surrender of japan
macarthurs vow that he would return and save his men
designed island hopping

Question 6

flying tigers

Answer 6

fought for china against japan
led by chennault
logo design by walt disney
pilots

Question 7

bataan death march

Answer 7

Philippines, us soldiers on half rations, men and women, 100 mile treck, soldiers suffered like jews in holocaust camps

Question 8

uss missouri

Answer 8

where the surrender of japan was oversaw

Question 9

enrico fermi

Answer 9

worked on atomic bomb
figured out nuclear reaction
italian

Question 10

yalta conference

Answer 10

february 1945, big three fdr churchill and stalin, consider the german question- should they pay reparations again, stalin wanted lots- poland 1/2 of reparations, but for this he promised to declare war on japan, join un-if the could have mongolia, he only followed through with the un. and he got 1/2 of reparations, allowed to conquer outer mongolia

Question 11

bombing of japan/after effects

Answer 11

little boy-uranium bomb, dropped on hiroshima from enola gay which was flown by colonel paul tibbits
fat man-plutonium bomb, dropped on nagasaki from bockscar which was flown by major general charles sweeney
after effects-lots of cancer miscarriages and birth defects after bombs explosion

Question 12

attacks on america

Answer 12

Oregon-Japanese pilot dropped incendiary bombs to start forest fires
pearl harbor in Hawaii
California- Santa Barbara Japanese tried to blow up oil refinery
Alaska- 1942 japan attacks Aleutian islands
east coast- Miami beacon u boats up the Mississippi, operation pastorius- destroy power plants and pa railroads, operation elster- get info on manhattan project

Question 13

women workers

Answer 13

marines, spars- coast guard, army- wacs, air force- wasps, navy- waves, Rosie the riviter

Question 14

klaus fuchs

Answer 14

traitor, from britian, gave a lot of info to soviets

Question 15

cost of wwii

Answer 15

$321 billion

lives us 292,000, ussr 18-22 mil, japan 2+ mil, jews 6 mil, china 1+ mil, german 3+ mil

Question 16

war production board

Answer 16

in charge of factory conversion

Question 17

populations shifts

Answer 17

after the war baby boom because everyones back 1945-1963

Question 18

march on washington movement

Answer 18

1941 to fight discrimination

Question 19

civil defense

Answer 19

along coast and inner places where factories were

Question 20

potsdam conference

Answer 20

July 17- august 2 1945, new big 3- Truman Stalin and Churchill(atlee after elections), how to administer Germany, us informs ussr of new bomb

Question 21

ledo road

Answer 21

built by black troops in burma. supply route

Question 22

what is island hopping

Answer 22

start in hawaii and slowly take back the atlantic from japan by general macarthur

Question 23

NAACP

Answer 23

National association for the advancement of colored peoples

Question 24

changes in family life

Answer 24

men are off in the war
women are working in factories
children are in schools
suburbia

Question 25

explain the 1940s social culture

Answer 25

war toys, entertainment went to war, movies based around depression and war, Kilroy was here, swing and country music come about, female baseball league, NFL 1949, playing of the national anthem, stars went to combat-joe dimaggio, rations, pro war, uso- played for soldiers, war comics- captain America
TEEN CULTURE frank sinatra-instigator of juvenile delinquency, term teenager will be used for the first time, bobby soxer, zoot suit riots

Question 26

describe the discrimination of various groups in the US during World War II

Answer 26

African-American, they were segregated troops, race riots, segregated blood banks. Women, second-class citizens. Mexican Americans, zoot suit riot. Italian Americans, ID required, curfews, bank accounts frozen. German Americans, ID required, took property, bank accounts frozen. Japanese Americans, executive order 9066, detention camps, small rations, poor conditions.

Question 27

explain the items ration and the purpose of rationing

Answer 27

ITEMS- sugar, gasoline, Robert, milk, meat, bread, nylon
REASONING- food items for ration because the soldiers fighting needed the food to survive, nylon was rationed because it was needed to make parachute, gas and rubber were rationed because it was needed for machinery and tanks.

Question 28

why was the 1940s called the “decade of triumph”?

Answer 28

because it was dominated by war, US arose as super power during this time

Question 29

explain The origins and effects of some of the social problems that surfaced during the war years

Answer 29

race riots because blacks were moving north and taking jobs whites didn’t like that
Japanese interment because they had a history of being loyal to japan they were forced away from where the lived into camps like the jews lived
zoot suit riots because the sailors were being mean to the latinos so they were mean back whole gang fight