APUSH Chapter 35 Quiz

Question 1

on the Pacific coast, 110,000 Japanese-Americans were taken from their homes and herded into ______________________________where their properties and freedoms were taken away.

Answer 1

Internment camps

Question 2

__________ affirmed the constitutionally of internment camps

Answer 2

Korematsu vs US

Question 3

What ended the Great Depression

Answer 3

Massive military orders (over $100 billion in 1942 alone)

Demanded jobs and production

Question 4

“Sir Launchalot”

Answer 4

Henry J Kaiser

Question 5

The _______ halted manufacture of nonessential items such as passenger cars, and when the Japanese seized vital rubber supplies in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, the U.S. imposed a national speed limit and gasoline rationing to save tires.

Answer 5

War Production Board

Question 6

John L Lewis led the _____

Answer 6

United Mine Workers

Question 7

The armed forces had nearly 15 million men and ____ women, and some of these “women in arms” included the WAACS (Army), the WAVES(Navy), and SPARS (Coast Guard).

Answer 7

216,000

Question 8

What did the Bracero Program do

Answer 8

the Bracero Program brought Mexican workers to America as resident workers.

Question 9

_________________, leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, threatened a “Negro March to Washington” in 1941 to get better rights and treatment.

Answer 9

Philip Randolph

Question 10

The president also established the _____________ __________ ____________ _______ to discourage racism and oppression in the workplace, and while Blacks in the army still suffered degrading discrimination (i.e. separate blood banks), they still used the war as a rallying cry against dictators abroad and racism at home—overall gaining power and strength.

Answer 10

Fair employment practices commission

Question 11

Some 25,000 Native Americans were in the army, and the Navajo and Comanches were _____________

Answer 11

Code talkers

Question 12

2 outcomes of WWII

Answer 12

The gross national product more than doubled, as did corporate profits.
In fact, when the war ended and price controls were lifted, inflation shot up.

Question 13

Guam, Wake, the Philippines, Hong Kong, British Malaya, Burma (in the process cutting the famed Burma Road), the Dutch East Indies, and China were all captured by the ___

Answer 13

Japanese

Question 14

When the Japanese took over the Philippines, U.S. Gen. __________________ had to sneak out of the place, but he vowed to return to liberate the islands; he went to Australia.

Answer 14

Douglas MacArthur

Question 15

What battle stopped Japanese expansion

Answer 15

Midway in the Coral Sea

Chester W Nimitz forced them back

Question 16

In January and February of 1944, the ________ Islands fell to the U.S.

Answer 16

Marshall

Question 17

The Germans, led by the “Desert Fox” Marshall Erwin Rommel, drove to Egypt, dangerously close to the Suez Canal, but late in October 1942, British General Bernard Montgomery defeated him at ___ _______________, west of Cairo.

Answer 17

El Alamein

Question 18

At the _____________________, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met and agreed on the term of “unconditional surrender.”

Answer 18

Casablanca Conference

Question 19

The Allies finally took Rome on June 4, 1944, and it wasn’t until _________________, that Axis troops in Italy finally surrendered.

Answer 19

May 2, 1945

Question 20

At the ________ Conference, the Big Three (FDR, Churchill, and Josef Stalin, leader of Russia) met and agreed that the Soviets and Allies would launch simultaneous attacks.

Answer 20

Tehran

Question 21

The point of attack was French Normandy, and on June 6, 1944, _______ began—the amphibious assault on Normandy. After heavy resistance, Allied troops, some led by ____________________, finally clawed their way onto land, across the landscape, and deeper into France.
With the help of the “French underground,” Paris was freed in August of 1944.

Answer 21

D-Day

Gen George S Patton

Question 22

On the retreat and losing, Hitler concentrated his forces and threw them in the Ardennes forest on December 16, 1944, starting the ___________________.

Answer 22

Battle of the Bulge

Question 23

When did hitler commit suicide

Answer 23

April 30, 1945

Question 24

FDR died on _______ from a cerebral hemorrhage

Answer 24

April 12, 1945

Question 25

_____ was the date of the official German surrender, and the next day was officially proclaimed V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day).

Answer 25

May 7, 1945

Question 26

Iwo Jima was captured in _____ of 1945

Answer 26

March

Question 27

At the ________ Conference, the Allies issued an ultimatum: surrender or be destroyed.

Answer 27

Potsdam

Question 28

First atomic bomb tested on _____

Answer 28

July 16 1945

Question 29

Hiroshima (August 6 1945) killed _______

Nagasaki (August 9 1945) killed ________

Answer 29

180,000

80,000

Question 30

On August 8, 1945, the Soviets declared war on Japan, just as promised, and two days later, on August 10, Japan sued for peace on one condition: that the Emperor Hirohito be allowed to remain on the Japanese throne. Did the allies accept?

Answer 30

Yes

Question 31

The formal end of WWII came on ________________________, on the battleship U.S.S. Missouri where Hirohito surrendered to General MacArthur.

Answer 31

September 2, 1945

Question 32

How many casualties were suffered

Answer 32

1 million

Question 33

Why was this our best-fought war

Answer 33

The success was partly thanks to the excellent U.S. generals and admirals, and the leaders.
Industry also rose to the challenge, putting out a phenomenal amount of goods, proving wrong Hermann Goering, a Nazi leader who had scorned America’s lack of manufacturing skills.

Question 34

What attitude did FDR have toward the war and why

Answer 34

“Get Germany First”

for if Germany were to defeat Britain before the Allies could beat Japan, there would be no stopping Hitler and his men.