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Question 1

Prime minister of Japan

Answer 1

Hideki Tojo

Question 2

How did Hideki Tojo view war with U.S. before WWII

Answer 2

Tojo believed war with the US was “inevitable”

Question 3

Japanese naval commander

Answer 3

Yamamoto

Question 4

What did Yamamoto think about war with the US?

Answer 4

Yamamoto knew japan couldn’t win

Question 5

What did Yamamoto say about the significance of pearl harbor?

Answer 5

“Decide fate of the war on the first day with a fatal attack”

Question 6

Nov. 5 1941 - Japan asks FDR to end trade embargo or________

Answer 6

“face conflict”

Question 7

US Secretary of State says Japan must ____ before it lifts the embargo

Answer 7

Corden Hull → Japan must remove troops from China

Question 8

“Crooked as a barrel of fish hooks”

Answer 8

Hull

(about japan)

Question 9

Where did FDR’s “War Cabinet” think Japan would attack next?

Answer 9

Philippines or Singapore

Question 10

Date of Pearl Harbor

Answer 10

December 7, 1941

Question 11

What was destroyed during PH?

How many killed/wounded

Answer 11

8/8 warships

11 ships

2400 killed
1200 wounded

Question 12

At the same time Japan attacks PH, they also attack other US & British allies/bases. Which?

Answer 12

US: Philipines, Guam, Wake Islands

British: Singapore, HK, Malaya

Question 13

What 2 things made Japans attack on Pearl Harbor less successful?

Answer 13

Japan failed to destroy Failed to destroy maintenance and oil buildings

Japan failed to destroy aircraft carriers they recently left

Question 14

What movement does PH end

Answer 14

US isolationism movement

Question 15

“I fear we have only succeeded in waking a sleeping tiger”

Answer 15

yamamoto

Question 16

How long does it take the senate to approve a “state of war”

Answer 16

25 mins

Question 17

Who declares war on the US after they declare war on Japan.

Answer 17

3 days later, Germany & Italy declare war on U.S.

Question 18

“Half Judaized/Negrified”

Answer 18

Hitler about the US

Question 19

“It is impossible for us to lose the war”

Answer 19

hitler

Question 20

Legislation that boosted executive power, allowing FDR to re-organize and create new agencies. Allowed FDR to regulate. business/industry & created censorship

Answer 20

War Powers Act (1941)

Question 21

Who (age) is drafted for WWII?

How many serve?

Answer 21

Men 18→45 drafted.

16 million serve, including several hundred thousand women

Question 22

Average age & height of a US soldier

Answer 22

26 years old
and 5’8 tall

Question 23

How many soldiers attended college/high school

Answer 23

1/10 attended college
1/4 graduate high school

Question 24

Hitler ignorant of US industrial potential, calling Americans these LA steryotypes

Answer 24

“beauty queens and millionaires”

Question 25

In 1942, how does US war production compare to the Axis powers?

Answer 25

US war production > Germany, Italy, Japan combined

Question 26

What does Stalin say about US production?

Answer 26

“US production w/o which we would have lost”

Question 27

Legislation that converted industries for war

Answer 27

War Production Board (1942)

Question 28

US cars production during war

Answer 28

1941 --> 3 million cars made only 134 cars made in the next 4 years

Question 29

In 1945 what % of the world goods does the US manufactures

Answer 29

US manufactures 50% of world goods

Question 30

How much $ did the War cost ?

Answer 30

$3 trillion. (In today's $)

Question 31

Revenue Tax Act (1942) “Victory Tax”

Answer 31

Used to pay for the war. In 1939, 4 mill (5% of workers) pay tax. Act makes 75% of workers now pay tax. By the end of the war, 90% of workers pay tax

Question 32

How many workers pay tax in 1939 vs after Revenue Tax Act (1942)

Answer 32

1939 - 4 million (5% workers) pay tax → 75% taxpayers

Question 33

By the end of the war what % of workers pay tax

Answer 33

90% of workers paid tax

Question 34

What % of war costs are covered by taxes from 1939 to 1946? How did they pay for the rest?

Answer 34

From 1939 to 1946 taxes covered 45% military costs Paid for the rest with $ from $185 Billion war bond campaign

Question 35

Taxes covered some of the war cost. How did the US pay for the rest.

Answer 35

The rest of the money was from a $185 Billion war bond campaign which paid interest to purchasers

Question 36

By the end of WWII how had the national debt increased?

Answer 36

National debt increased by 6x

Question 37

During the war, what happens to the federal govt? In what ways did it grow?

Answer 37

federal govt grows: - 12 new agencies - Federal workers 4x - 1 → 4 million

Question 38

How was employment changed due to the war? What happened to unemployment rates?

Answer 38

People left their jobs to join the military, so jobs were plentiful. Unemployment went from 14% → 2% (1940→1943)

Question 39

How many move for new job opportunities during the war?

Answer 39

24 Million Americans move for jobs many to the west coast

Question 40

What happened to the price of consumer goods during ww2? How did the govt react?

Answer 40

prices rise. Congress creates Office of Price Administration (1942) – sets price ceilings

Question 41

Office of Price Administration

Answer 41

(1942) – sets price ceilings prices are "frozen" so basics are rationed

Question 42

In attempts to promote patriotism and overlook rationing, what sayings are created?

Answer 42

American families become a “fighting unit on the home front” "Save your stuff to make us tough" "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" "Save your scraps to beat the Japs"

Question 43

What do Americans collect for the war effort?

Answer 43

Metal, tin foil, rubber, and cardboard for military

Question 44

What specific item were households asked to save? what was made from this item?

Answer 44

Cooking fat (glycerin) to make bombs

Question 45

How much do prices rise in ww2 compared to ww1?

Answer 45

Consumer prices rise 31% (they rose 62% during WWI)

Question 46

What jobs do housewives now work?

Answer 46

housewives → welders/riveters

Question 47

How many rural southern farmers move to cities? What do farmers join?

Answer 47

3.5 mill. rural southern farmers move to cities. Farmers join industrial unions.

Question 48

What government program is created so women can work full time

Answer 48

Federal national day care → women/mothers can work

Question 49

Agency/group of army women

Answer 49

350,000 serve in the Women's Army Corps (WAC)

Question 50

Women Navy

Answer 50

Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) similar to navy

Question 51

who says “war calls women of America for production skills”

Answer 51

Sidney Hillman

Question 52

What does Sidney Hillman say about working women

Answer 52

“war calls women of America for production skills”

Question 53

How many women join the civilian workforce?

Answer 53

8 mill women join workforce

Question 54

What promotional ad is launched to recruit women for "male"jobs

Answer 54

“Rosie the Riveter” named after Rosina Bonavita Riveters work on planes

Question 55

How many AAs leave the south for better opportunities? How many join the industrial workforce?

Answer 55

500,000 AAs leave the South for opportunities 1 mill join the industrial workforce

Question 56

As AA's leave the south for military production jobs how do black populations shift

Answer 56

Black populations in western cities rise (LA/Seattle)

Question 57

What southern industry that employs share croppers is stimulated by the war

Answer 57

Southern textile mills employ poor sharecroppers

Question 58

How many army camps are located in the South? what does it do for local economies

Answer 58

60/100 army camps in the South which transform local economies

Question 59

During the war, what happens to rural populations in America?

Answer 59

Rural population decreases 20%

Question 60

Joe Louis (AA heavyweight champ) – “Lots of things wrong w/ America

Answer 60

Hitler ain't going to fix them”

Question 61

1 mill AAs serve during WWII

Question 62

AAs are segregated

Answer 62

excluded from combat units

Question 63

Stimson (sec. of war) – “leadership not embedded in the negro race”

Question 64

1944 - Eisenhower creates 52 platoons with 50 AAs each

Answer 64

commanded by a white officer

Question 65

Need for more troops + pressure from AAs and Elanor Roosevelt

Question 66

“Greatest” thing for AAs since 13/14/15th Amendment

Question 67

Tuskegee Airmen – 600 AA pilots. Flew 15

Answer 67

000 missions

Question 68

Ironically

Answer 68

migrant workers are recruited due to rural people moving west

Question 69

Bracero program (1942) - Mexico agrees to provide 200

Answer 69

000 farmworkers on 1 year contracts

Question 70

300

Answer 70

000 Mexican-Americans serve in war. Highest % Medal of Honor of any minority

Question 71

“Zoot Suit Riots” (1943) –

Answer 71

off duty soldiers rampage LA and assault minorities

Question 72

______Supported war effort more than any other group. ______ of eligible natives served

Answer 72

Native Americans ⅓ Integrated w/ white units.

Question 73

______ nisei forced to __“war relocation camps” in _____. only given ___ hrs warning

Answer 73

120,000 nisei forced to 10 “war relocation camps” in the remote west. only given 48 hrs warning

Question 74

FDR’s Executive Order 9066 when? what did FDR say about it? What % affected were US citizens How many J.Americans serve?

Answer 74

1942 a “military necessity” 70% affected were US citizens. 39k serve

Question 75

Government finally recognized the injustice in

Answer 75

1983, granting $20,000 each