Chapter 13.3-13.4

Question 1

Pearl Harbor

Answer 1

Japan attacked the Naval Base on the island Oahu on December 7, 1941

Question 2

D-Day

Answer 2

Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in northern France on June 6, 1944

Question 3

V-E- Day

Answer 3

Victory in Europe Day May 8, 1945.

Question 4

Nisei

Answer 4

Second Generation; and most decorated infantry unit in all of the United States Army.

Question 5

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 5

cities destroyed by bombs to quickly end the War.

Question 6

Concentration camps

Answer 6

places where men, women, and children were penned up, treated cruelly, and massacred.

Question 7

Holocaust

Answer 7

the extermination of 6 million Jews not including the many Germans and other nationalities that were killed in concentration camps.

Question 8

Big Four

Answer 8

leaders of the Allies: Chiang Kai-shek, Joseph Stalin, Sir Winston Churchill, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Question 9

Fighting Red Tails

Answer 9

the distinguished group of African American fighter pilots under the command of Benjamin O. Davis Jr.