Chapter 17 Test

Question 1

Selective service system

Answer 1

Implemented a law that would draft people into the war

Question 2

Henry Kraiser

Answer 2

Built shipyards in California

Question 3

Rosie the riveter

Answer 3

Symbol of women in the workforce

Question 4

OSRD

Answer 4

Office of science research and development

Question 5

What did the OSRD do

Answer 5

It was an office that would develop the new technologies for the war

Question 6

OPA

Answer 6

Office of Price administration; thought inflation and rationed foods

Question 7

Manhattan project

Answer 7

Building of the atomic bomb

Question 8

War bonds

Answer 8

Raise revenue for war, fought inflation

Question 9

Rationing

Answer 9

Limiting availability of resources

Question 10

Convoy system

Answer 10

Surround supply ships and escort them across the ocean

Question 11

Sonar

Answer 11

Locating German U-boats underwater

Question 12

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 12

August 1942 through February 1943; the turning point in the European war

Question 13

North African

Answer 13

1942-1943

Question 14

Operation torch

Answer 14

November 8, 1942; codename for the Allied invasion of north Africa

Question 15

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 15

American/Allied forces; commanded Africa core

Question 16

Africa core

Answer 16

German fighting force in Africa

Question 17

Erwin Rommel

Answer 17

Desert fox

Question 18

El Alamine

Answer 18

October through November 1942; Egypt; turning point in north Africa; British stop the Germans

Question 19

Cape bon

Answer 19

May 13, 1943; German surrendered to Allied forces

Question 20

What were the effects of cape bon

Answer 20

Allowed island horses to move up through southern Europe; allowed for opening of the Mediterranean for ships

Question 21

Italian campaign

Answer 21

Bloodiest battle because of the terrain

Question 22

Cicily

Answer 22

Invaded the 1943

Question 23

Salerno beach

Answer 23

September 3, 1943; First time in American forces landed on the Italian peninsula

Question 24

Battle of Anzio

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“Bloody Anzio”; 25,000 allied casualties; 30,000 axis casualties

Question 25

Tuskeegee airmen

Answer 25

African pilots that trained in Tuskeegee Alabama

Question 26

442nd regimental combat team

Answer 26

Most decorated unit in US history

Question 27

Normandy

Answer 27

Region of France were D-Day invasion took place

Question 28

Operation overlord

Answer 28

Codename for Normandy invasion

Question 29

June 6, 1944

Answer 29

When the invasion of Normandy took place

Question 30

Liberation of Paris

Answer 30

August 25, 1944

Question 31

Battle of the bulge

Answer 31

Last German offensive of war; December 1944

Question 32

First camp to be liberated by Soviets

Answer 32

Maidanek

Question 33

VE Day

Answer 33

Victory in Europe; May 8, 1945

Question 34

Philippines

Answer 34

April 14, 1942; American met Japanese for first time

Question 35

Doolittle raid

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April 18, 1942; dropping of bombs in Tokyo with B 25 bomber's

Question 36

Battle of coral sea

Answer 36

May 1942; US won

Question 37

Battle of Midway

Answer 37

June 2-4, 1942

Question 38

Chester Nimitz

Answer 38

Commander of US naval forces in the Pacific

Question 39

The effects of the battle of Midway

Answer 39

Destroy the Japanese; dismantled the Japanese Navy; turning point in the Pacific theater of war

Question 40

Guadalcanal

Answer 40

October 1944; a simple greatest naval force in history

Question 41

Kamikazi

Answer 41

Use for the first time in Leyte gulf; suicide Japanese pilots

Question 42

Iwo Jima

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February through March 1945

Question 43

Was the purpose of Iwo Jima

Answer 43

To get closer to Japan to get more accurate bomb landings

Question 44

Okinawa

Answer 44

April through June 1945

Question 45

What was Okinawa

Answer 45

It was the last remaining island over the Japanese mainland

Question 46

The Manhattan project

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Codename for the building of the atomic bomb

Question 47

J Robert Oppenheimer

Answer 47

Lead scientist for the building of the atomic bomb

Question 48

Los Alamo's, NM

Answer 48

Main lab for the atomic bomb building

Question 49

Alamogordo

Answer 49

July 16, 1945; first atomic bomb was exploded

Question 50

Hiroshima

Answer 50

August 6, 1945; first target for the atomic bomb

Question 51

What was the atomic bomb drop by at Hiroshima

Answer 51

Enola gay(b-29)

Question 52

Codename for the bomb at Hiroshima

Answer 52

Little boy

Question 53

Nagasaki

Answer 53

August 9, 1945; second target

Question 54

Bockscar

Answer 54

Name of plane that dropped the bomb at Nagasaki

Question 55

Was a codename for the Nagasaki bomb

Answer 55

Fat man

Question 56

September 2, 1945

Answer 56

American and Japanese leaders signed a surrender on the USS Missouri

Question 57

G.I. Bill of Rights

Answer 57

Promise education and money when soldiers got back from war

Question 58

Exclusive order 9066

Answer 58

Roosevelt puts Japanese and cats without a hearing