WWII: WWII Erupts and the US in WWII packet Flashcards
What was a secret effort that the US undertook to build a new powerful weapon for use in WWII?
Manhattan Project
How did the US respond to its need for farm labor during WWII?
Bracero Program
What occurred in Los Angeles in 1943 as a result of ethnic tensions?
Zoot suit riots
What type of powerful weapon uses energy released by the splitting of atoms?
atomic bomb
Became the popular symbol for the working woman of WWII
Rosie the Riveter
The Manhattan Project, based in Los Alamos, New Mexico, was the secret project to build an __
atomic bomb
WASPs tested and delivered __
aircraft
Henry Kaiser used assembly-line techniques to produce __
liberty ships
Some Mexican workers were given the chance to work temporarily in the US under the __ Program
Bracero
__ led the Women’s Army Corps, or WAC
Oveta Culp Hobby
The __ riots broke out in June 1943, when US sailors stationed in Los Angeles fought in the streets with Mexican American youths
Zoot suit
Gov’t spending during WWII finally brought an end to the __, the period of severe economic crisis that began with the stock market crash of 1929
Great Depression
In 1941 __, the leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, called for a march on Washington DC, to protest unfair treatment of African Americans
A Philip Randolph
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the federal gov’t expanded the __, the system for making sure that there would be enough men in the armed forces to fight the war
draft
During __, the Allies invaded mainland Europe on the beaches of Normandy, France
Operation Overlord
Early in WWII, the British lacked enough ships to form __
convoys
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The Tuskegee Airmen were African American pilots who fought bravely in Italy
T
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D-Day was the day that the Allies invaded France
T
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German submarines hunted at night in groups called wolf packs
T
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American soldiers first saw combat in WWII during the Battle of the Bulge
F
Operation Torch
A veteran of the North Africa campaign and the top British commander of Operation Overlord
Bernard Montgomery
City on the Volga River where the Germans suffered a terrible defeat
Stalingrad
German submarines that hunted as a group and attacked at night
wolf packs
The head of German forces in North Africa
Erwin Rommel
The Allied invasion of France
Operation Overlord
Formations of several ships intended to provide protection against submarine attack
convoys
The commander of Operation Torch
Dwight D Eisenhower
A segregated unit of African American pilots
Tuskegee Airmen
The final major German counterattack, launched in late 1944
Battle of the Bulge
The Allied invasion of North Africa that marked the first combat action by American soldiers in WWII
Operation Torch
Which term does not relate to the others?
a) anti-Semitism
b) Kristallnacht
c) Stalingrad
d) ghetto
c) Stalingrad
Which term does not relate to the others?
a) Final Solution
b) concentration camp
c) Allies
d) Holocaust
c) Allies
What did the US do to help European Jews during WWII?
Created War Refugee Board
In what ways did the Nazis try to control and then eliminate the Jews during Hitler’s rule?
genocide, Final Solution, Holocaust
How did anti-Semitism in Germany rise to a new level in November 1938?
Kristallnacht, concentration camps
The organization that the US gov’t set up to offer help to potential victims of Nazi oppression was called the __
War Refugee Board
Which were facilities built by the Nazis to imprison Jews?
concentration camps
The Nazis encouraged Germans to riot against Jews in what has become known as __
Kristallnacht
The Nazi plan to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and the Soviet Union was known as __
the Final Solution
A neighborhood in which the Nazis would confine Jews was known as __
a ghetto
