Chapter 26 test

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The Battle of Java Sea

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Crushed a fleet of American, British, Dutch, and Australian warships

Question 2

Douglas MacArthur

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Commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific

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Bataan Death March

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Forced movement of U.S. troops to prison camps in the Philippines

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The Japanese advance on Australia was halted by

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The Battle of Coral Sea

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Battle of Coral Sea

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Allied victory that helped stop Japan’s offensive in the Pacific

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The Battle of Midway

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U.S. fighters, dive-bombers, and torpedo planes sank four Japanese aircraft carriers and shot down army planes

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The Japanese sent a huge fleet to the Solomons

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Hoping to regain Guadalcanal

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The 1942 invasion of North Africa resulted in

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Allied control of the Mediterranean

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The Axis advance in North Africa was stopped at

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The Battle of El Alamein

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Under the direction of James F. Byrnes

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The Office of War Mobilization coordinated government production and distribution of civilian goods

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Lend-lease exchange

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One form of Allied cooperation during World War II

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The function of the War Production Board was to

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Convert existing factories to wartime production

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War Production Board

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Supervised the conversion of U.S. factories from peacetime to wartime production

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WASPs

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One of several military organizations that accepted women as volunteers

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Office of War Information

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Coordinated the flow of war news in the United States

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The United States mobilized for war by doing all of the following

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1. Passing the Selective Training and service Act
2. Selling war bonds and rationing products
3. Hiring women to take over traditionally male jobs

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Internments

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Relocation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans by the U.S. government

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During World War II

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Norman Mineta was one of many Japanese Americans imprisoned in relocation camps

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A. Philip Randolph planned a march on Washington, D.C. in 1941 to

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Protest job discrimination

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Mexican Americans

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Victims of violence during the zoot-suit riots

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Women participated in the war effort by

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1. Replacing men in war plants
2. Enrolling in the WAVEs
3. Serving as nurses

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North Africa

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Territorial conquest giving the Allies increased control over the Mediterranean

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The 1942 invasion of North Africa resulted in

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Allied control of the Mediterranean

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Sicily

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Invasion site that cleared the way for an Allied assault on Mussolini’s Italy

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After the successful invasion of Sicily in 1943

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The Allies launched a successful assault on the Italian mainland

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The Battle of the Atlantic began to

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Turn in favor of the Allies

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Battle of Atlantic

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Allied victory resulting in part from improved sonar equipment

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D-Day marked the

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Allied invasion of France

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Yalta

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Conference site where Allied leaders agree to the postwar division of Germany

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The Yalta Conference resulted in

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Plans for the postwar division of Germany

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Island hopping

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Strategy of attacking certain Japanese-held positions in the Pacific and bypassing others

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The Allies came within bombing distance of

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Japanese cities by adopting an island-hopping policy

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

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Last, largest, and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific

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The top secret program to develop the atomic bomb was known as

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The Manhattan Project

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The U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki finally caused

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Japan to surrender in August 1945

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Hiroshima

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Target of an atomic bomb in Japan

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United States

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Allied country in the West that faced the problem of fighting the war on several fronts

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Holocaust

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Systematic slaughter of European Jews by Germany during World War II

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The Holocaust was Nazi Germany’s

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Systematic slaughter of European Jews

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Superpowers

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The United States and the Soviet Union after World War II

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Revisionists

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Historians who question accepted versions of historical events

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Revisionists believe all of the following

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1. The war could have been won without atomic weapons 2. Truman used the atomic bomb as a warning to the Soviet Union 3. The war could have been won without an invasion of Japan

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The following were consequences of World War II

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1. The U.S. emerged as a superpower 2. Japan lost Manchuria to China 3. The Soviet Union absorbed the Baltic nations