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1
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During most of the 1930’s, Franklin Roosevelt understood that the only way to end the Great Depression was for what?

A

a major war to break out in Europe

2
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The War Powers Act established what?

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a broad executive authority that would shape presidential power even after the war ended.

3
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What was the U.S. strategy employed in the Pacific?

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Island Hopping

4
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Who were the code talkers?

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soldiers during theworld warswho used their knowledge ofNative-Americanlanguages as a basis to transmit coded messages

5
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What did Rosie the Riveter represent?

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American women who worked in factories

6
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What were the Zoot-Suit Riots

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a series of riots that broke out in Los Angeles, California, between Anglo American sailors and Marines stationed in the city and Latino youths

7
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What did A. Philip Randolf do?

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heorganized and led theBrotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly black labor union, led theMarch on Washington Movement, which convinced PresidentFranklin D. Rooseveltto issueExecutive Order 8802, banning discrimination in the defense industries

8
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What did the SPAB- Supply Priorities and Allocation Board do?

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oversaw the use of scarce materials and resources

9
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What did the OPA- Office of Price Administration do?

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it checked the threat of inflation

10
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What did the NWLB- National War Labor Board do?

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mediated disputes between labor and management

11
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What did the WMC- War Manpower Commission do?

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it directed the mobilization of military and civilian services

12
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What did the OWM- Office of War Mobilization do?

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it coordinated operations among all the agencies

13
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What did the OWI- Office of War Information do?

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engaged press, radio, and film industry in an informational campaign

14
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What was the Bracero Program

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a series of laws and diplomatic agreements for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States

15
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What was the Manhattan project?

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a research and development project that produced the firstatomic bombsduringWorld War II

16
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What event is related to this quote: “a date which will live in infamy”

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Pearl Harbor

17
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Who was the father of American shipbuilding?

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Henry Kaiser

18
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What was WAACs?

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Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps

19
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What did the Nye Committee do?

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investigated the financial and banking interests which underlayUnited States’ involvement inWorld War II

20
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Was the America First Committee pro or anti war?

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anti war

21
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What did the Lend Lease Act promote?

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the Defense of the United States

22
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What was the War Powers Act?

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a federal law intended to check the president’s power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress

23
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What did Korematsu v. U.S. concern?

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the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship

24
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Who were the Big Three?

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Joseph Stalin, FDR, and Winston Churchill

25
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What was Operation Overlord code name for?

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theBattle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western EuropeduringWorld War IIbyAlliedforces

26
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What theater was George Patton known for leading in?

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European theater

27
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What were the 6 major conferences in order?

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Casablanca, Cairo, Tehran, Quebec, Yalta, Potsdam

28
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Who was the supreme commander of the allied Forces in Europe?

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General Eisenhower?

29
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What was Lebensraum?

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an important component of Nazi ideology in which territorial expansionism is used to gain Lebensraum as being a law of nature for all healthy and vigorous peoples of superior races to displace people of inferior races

30
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What were the Nuremberg Laws?

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antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party

31
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What happened at Dunkirk?

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an important battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany in which the British and French forces retreated to Great Britain.

32
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What did the Atlantic Charter define?

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the Allied goals for the post-war world

33
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Where did Operation Torch take place?

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French North Africa

34
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Who was the “desert fox”

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General Erwin Rommel of the British Eighth Army

35
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Who was Douglas MacArthur

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an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II

36
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What happened at the Bataan Death March?

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the forcible transfer by theImperial Japanese Armyof 60,000–80,000 Filipino and Americanprisoners of warafter the three-monthBattle of Bataanin thePhilippinesduringWorld War II

37
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What were the two cities destroyed by the atomic bomb?

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

38
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What major region did Japan invade?

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Manchuria

39
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What is Nisei

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a Japanese-language term used in countries in North America, South America and Australia to specify the children born to Japanese people in a new country