Chap. 34 Vocab

Question 1

The NWLB stopped worker strikes during the war effort and managed wages that favored the worker to avoid inflation….

Answer 1

The National War Labor Board

Question 2

What was the Manhattan Project?

Answer 2

A code name for developing the first atomic bomb. Test run was in New Mexico then Nagasaki and Hiroshima were hit.

Question 3

What project matches this description: American commission that developed the first atomic bomb that later hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Answer 3

The Manhattan Project

Question 4

What was the Potsdam conference?

Answer 4

Stalin, Churchill, and President Truman meeting in Berlin to threaten Japan into surrender with atomic bomb threats

Question 5

This conference had Stalin, Churchill, and president Truman threaten Japan with an atomic bomb in Potsdam,Berlin, Germany

Answer 5

Potsdam Conference

Question 6

The OPA set prices for goods to reduce inflation and were in charge of rationing goods like cars,tires and fuel

Answer 6

Office of Price Administration

Question 7

What does the NWLB stand for

Answer 7

National war labor board

Question 8

What board fits this description: mediated worker strikes against management during WWll war effort, managed wages in favor of the worker to prevent inflation, whole purpose of this board was to keep the labor force moving during WWII?

Answer 8

National war
labor board (NWLB)

Question 9

National War Labor Board did what?

Answer 9

kept peace between employers and workers, prevented strikes, prevented inflation from managing wages for the workers.

Question 10

What does FEPC stand for?-

Answer 10

Fair Employment Practices Commission

Question 11

What did the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) do?

Answer 11

Commission was in charge of preventing racial discrimination in the military job roles, provoked by African
American march for civil rights

Question 12

What commission fits this description: Commission was in charge of making sure no racial discrimination happened in the military jobs, brought about by the African American march in Washington?-

Answer 12

Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)

Question 13

What did CORE stand for?

Answer 13

Congress of Racial Equality

Question 14

What did the Congress of Racial Equality do?-

Answer 14

They were a nonviolent organization that promoted civil rights and a double victory for African Americans: Them helping America win WWIl abroad and to come home to the same respect and equal treatment they saw in the military.

Question 15

What Congress fits this description: Fought for civil rights for African Americans and civil rights once African soldiers came back from the war

Answer 15

Congress of Racial Equality

Question 16

What was the Executive order No.9066?-

Answer 16

Presidential order by President FDR that sent
120,000 Japanese people in America to relocation camps to preventing Japanese spies helping Japan amidst the war.

Question 17

What executive order fits this description: Order made by president Franklin D.
Roosevelt to send 120,000 Japanese people in America to relocation camps to avoid Japanese spies helping Japan, later had a government issued apology?-

Answer 17

Executive order No.9066

Question 18

Who were code talkers?

Answer 18

• Native American men in the American military who used their native language to communicate intel without German or Japan spies being able to understand.

Question 19

2. What name for soldiers in WWIl fits this description: Native American soldiers that used their own language to avoid German or Japanese spies from understanding?-

Answer 19

Code talkers

Question 20

What was the Bracero Program?

Answer 20

• It was a Mexican government program that brought farmers from Mexico to the United States to aid in temporary agricultural work for the war effort.

Question 21

2. What government program fits this description: Mexican government program that brought Mexican farmers to America to temporarily help in the war effort?-

Answer 21

Bracero
Program

Question 22

What does the WPB stand for?-

Answer 22

War Production Board

Question 23

What does the war Production Board do?

Answer 23

• It was assembled by an executive order to manage all war production so that production would be more efficient. They also got and distributed raw materials for war production.

Question 24

What Board fits this description: A board that managed all War Productions and accumulation and distribution of raw materials?-

Answer 24

War Production Board (WPB)

Question 25

What did WACs stand for/ do?-

Answer 25

Women's Army Corps/ Was the army corps for women and had no combatant roles, but this allowed for women to do beyond nursing roles.

Question 26

What did WAVES stand for?

Answer 26

- Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES)

Question 27

What did WAVES do?

Answer 27

- WAVES was the women's navy division that had no combatant jobs.

Question 28

What did SPARs do?

Answer 28

- SPARs was the U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve that employed women in noncombatant jobs

Question 29

What was the ABC-1 agreement?

Answer 29

- A Washington D.C. conference between Britain and the U.S. that if the U.S. joined WWII they would protect Britain against other countries while benefiting from having Britain match the U.S.'s military planning and being able to strike first at Germany.

Question 30

What agreement matches this description: Washington D.C. conference where the U.S. promised to protect Britain while being able to strike first at Germany and have synced military planning with Britain?-

Answer 30

ABC-1 agreement

Question 31

What is d-day?

Answer 31

- d-day was one of the last battles of WWIl where the U.S. fought German soldiers in France which ended in the U.S. winning and France gaining liberation from Nazi Germany

Question 32

What day matches this description: One of the final battles of WWII, France gained liberation from Germany, U.S. soldiers fought Germans on Normandy beach and won?-

Answer 32

D-day

Question 33

What was the battle of Midway?

Answer 33

- The battle of Midway was the U.S. soldiers fighting against Japan on Midway island, The U.S.'s success postponed Japan moving to the Pacific.

Question 34

What battle matches this description: U.S. soldiers vs. Japan on Midway island, U.S. win delays Japan's plans for the Pacific? -

Answer 34

The battle of Midway

Question 35

What was V-E day?

Answer 35

- The day that WWll ended in Europe (victory in Europe day), Germany surrenders.

Question 36

What day matches this description: the day that WWIl ended in Europe and Germany surrendered? -

Answer 36

V-E day (victory in Europe)

Question 37

What was V-J day?

Answer 37

- The day that WWll ended in the rest of the world and Japan surrenders.

Question 38

What day matches this description: the day that WWIl ended for the rest of the world and Japan surrendered?-.

Answer 38

V-J day