WWII Study Set pt 1

Question 1

George Marshall

Answer 1

Army Chief of Staff: Pushed for formation of the WAAC

Question 2

A. Philip Randolph

Answer 2

Black labor leader who called for a march on Washington D.C. to end all discrimination in the defense industries.

Question 3

Manhattan Project

Answer 3

Code name for the project to develop atomic bombs

Question 4

Office of Price Administration

Answer 4

Fought inflation of prices by freezing wages, prices, and rents; initiated rationing of important goods

Question 5

War Production Board

Answer 5

Gov’t agency in charge of converting industries from peacetime to wartime production

Question 6

Rationing

Answer 6

Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during war to supply the military

Question 7

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 7

American General who was the supreme Allied commander for the invasion of Europe; organized D-Day landings

Question 8

D-Day

Answer 8

Allied armies stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France.

Question 9

George Patton

Answer 9

American general known for his innovative armor tactics and tough leadership style; nicknamed :Old Blood and Guts”

Question 10

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 10

WWII battle in which German forces launched a final surprise counterattack into Belgium; the Germans’ last major offensive of the war

Question 11

V-E Day

Answer 11

Victory in Europe Day, day when Germany surrendered

Question 12

Harry S. Truman

Answer 12

Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

Question 13

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 13

American general who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II. Proclaimed “I shall return” when forced to leave the Philippines

Question 14

Chester Nimitz

Answer 14

U.S. admiral who led the Allies in the Pacific

Question 15

Battle of Midway

Answer 15

Turning point in the Pacific Theater, where the US Navy destroyed most of the Japanese aircraft carriers

Question 16

Kamikaze

Answer 16

Japanese pilots who suicide-bombed their planes into Allied ships

Question 17

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 17

Physicist who directed the project to build an atomic bomb

Question 18

Hiroshima

Answer 18

First Japanese city to be destroyed by an atomic bomb.

Question 19

Nagasaki

Answer 19

Second Japanese city destroyed by an atomic bomb

Question 20

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 20

Series of trials after WWII where former Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes