WWII: WWII Erupts and the US in WWII packet

Question 1

What was a secret effort that the US undertook to build a new powerful weapon for use in WWII?

Answer 1

Manhattan Project

Question 2

How did the US respond to its need for farm labor during WWII?

Answer 2

Bracero Program

Question 3

What occurred in Los Angeles in 1943 as a result of ethnic tensions?

Answer 3

Zoot suit riots

Question 4

What type of powerful weapon uses energy released by the splitting of atoms?

Answer 4

atomic bomb

Question 5

Became the popular symbol for the working woman of WWII

Answer 5

Rosie the Riveter

Question 6

The Manhattan Project, based in Los Alamos, New Mexico, was the secret project to build an __

Answer 6

atomic bomb

Question 7

WASPs tested and delivered __

Answer 7

aircraft

Question 8

Henry Kaiser used assembly-line techniques to produce __

Answer 8

liberty ships

Question 9

Some Mexican workers were given the chance to work temporarily in the US under the __ Program

Answer 9

Bracero

Question 10

__ led the Women’s Army Corps, or WAC

Answer 10

Oveta Culp Hobby

Question 11

The __ riots broke out in June 1943, when US sailors stationed in Los Angeles fought in the streets with Mexican American youths

Answer 11

Zoot suit

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Great Depression

Question 13

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

Answer 13

A Philip Randolph

Question 14

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

Answer 14

draft

Question 15

During __, the Allies invaded mainland Europe on the beaches of Normandy, France

Answer 15

Operation Overlord

Question 16

Early in WWII, the British lacked enough ships to form __

Answer 16

convoys

Question 17

T/F:

The Tuskegee Airmen were African American pilots who fought bravely in Italy

Answer 17

T

Question 18

T/F:

D-Day was the day that the Allies invaded France

Answer 18

T

Question 19

T/F:

German submarines hunted at night in groups called wolf packs

Answer 19

T

Question 20

T/F:

American soldiers first saw combat in WWII during the Battle of the Bulge

Answer 20

F

Operation Torch

Question 21

A veteran of the North Africa campaign and the top British commander of Operation Overlord

Answer 21

Bernard Montgomery

Question 22

City on the Volga River where the Germans suffered a terrible defeat

Answer 22

Stalingrad

Question 23

German submarines that hunted as a group and attacked at night

Answer 23

wolf packs

Question 24

The head of German forces in North Africa

Answer 24

Erwin Rommel

Question 25

The Allied invasion of France

Answer 25

Operation Overlord

Question 26

Formations of several ships intended to provide protection against submarine attack

Answer 26

convoys

Question 27

The commander of Operation Torch

Answer 27

Dwight D Eisenhower

Question 28

A segregated unit of African American pilots

Answer 28

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 29

The final major German counterattack, launched in late 1944

Answer 29

Battle of the Bulge

Question 30

The Allied invasion of North Africa that marked the first combat action by American soldiers in WWII

Answer 30

Operation Torch

Question 31

Which term does not relate to the others?

a) anti-Semitism
b) Kristallnacht
c) Stalingrad
d) ghetto

Answer 31

c) Stalingrad

Question 32

Which term does not relate to the others?

a) Final Solution
b) concentration camp
c) Allies
d) Holocaust

Answer 32

c) Allies

Question 33

What did the US do to help European Jews during WWII?

Answer 33

Created War Refugee Board

Question 34

In what ways did the Nazis try to control and then eliminate the Jews during Hitler’s rule?

Answer 34

genocide, Final Solution, Holocaust

Question 35

How did anti-Semitism in Germany rise to a new level in November 1938?

Answer 35

Kristallnacht, concentration camps

Question 36

The organization that the US gov’t set up to offer help to potential victims of Nazi oppression was called the __

Answer 36

War Refugee Board

Question 37

Which were facilities built by the Nazis to imprison Jews?

Answer 37

concentration camps

Question 38

The Nazis encouraged Germans to riot against Jews in what has become known as __

Answer 38

Kristallnacht

Question 39

The Nazi plan to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and the Soviet Union was known as __

Answer 39

the Final Solution

Question 40

A neighborhood in which the Nazis would confine Jews was known as __

Answer 40

a ghetto