WWII

Question 1

Neutrality Acts 1930s

Answer 1

4 laws passed that were designed to keep the US out of international incidents after WWI

Question 2

Lend Lease Act 1941

Answer 2

U.S. promises to lend and lease war goods to the Allied powers in WWII. The U.S. can help without being involved in the war.

Question 3

The Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor

Answer 3

President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to this date (December 7, 1941) as “a date which will live in infamy” because it brought the U.S. into WWII

Question 4

Island Hopping

Answer 4

The American navy attacked islands held by the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean. The capture of each successive island from the Japanese brought the American navy closer to an invasion of Japan.

Question 5

The Manhattan Project

Answer 5

A secret research and development project of the US to develop the atomic bomb. Its success granted the US the bombs that ended the war with Japan as well as ushering the country into the atomic era

Question 6

Yalta Conference

Answer 6

1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for the post-war

Question 7

D-Day Invasion

Invasion of Normandy

Answer 7

Turning point in the European theater in WWII because it opened up a war on 2 fronts (from two sides)

Question 8

Japanese Internment Camps

Answer 8

The forced relocation of 110,000 Japanese Americans to housing facilities called “War Relocation Camps”, after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

Question 9

Homefront WWII

Answer 9

Women worked in factories, victory Gardens to grow food for the troops, rationing to save food and gas for the troops, scrap metal drives for war materials

Question 10

United Nations

Answer 10

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. The U.S. joins.

Question 11

Nuremberg Trials

Answer 11

Trials of the Nazi leaders, showed that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime

Question 12

The GI Bill

Answer 12

Provided money for education and other benefits to military veterans returning from World War II

Question 13

The way in which President Harry Truman changed the United States military after World War II

Answer 13

Racial segregation in the military was banned

Question 14

Marshall Plan

Answer 14

Example of the U.S. foreign policy of containment. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII to help prevent the spread of communism. Poor countries like communism because it promises equality

Question 15

Truman Doctrine

Answer 15

Example of the U.S. foreign policy of containment. President Truman’s policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism after WWII. Mainly helped Greece and Turkey

Question 16

The Holocaust

Answer 16

The mass murder of 6 million members of the Jewish community in Europe in Nazi concentration camps during WWII. An additional 6 million people were also targeted in a variety of minority groups in one of the worst acts of genocide in human history.

Question 17

Result of WWII

Answer 17

U.S. uses first every atomic bomb to attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan

World enters the atomic age

U.S. and Soviet Union emerge as the two major superpowers