Ch 24 Review Questions

1. What was the name of the two cities where the atom bombs were dropped?

2. Name the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb.

3. Who made the decision to drop the atomic bomb?

4. What was the name of the day in where the end of the war in Europe was declared?

5. What was the slaughter of the Jews in Europe called?

6. What word defines the intentional annihilation of an entire people?

7. What was the name of the camps that Japanese Americans were forced to go?

8. What created the first peacetime draft in US history?

9. What was created to increase military production?

10. What battle was won by the US after they broke the Japanese secret code and considered the turning point of the Pacific Theater?

11. What was the name of the US strategy of seizing only strategic Japanese-held islands?

12. What battle is considered the turning point in the European theater where the Soviets defeated the Germans?

13. What allied victory was important because it stopped the Japanese advance towards Australia?

14. Who was given command of all US army units in the Pacific?

15. What place was linked to the promise “I shall return?” What specific part of that country?

16. What general was known as the Desert Fox?

17. Germany’s final counterattack was what battle?

18. Where did Allied forces attack on D-Day?

19. What was perhaps the bloodiest battle of the war in the Pacific?

20. What was the name of the stroll that US and Filipino soldiers were forced to have where many died?

21. What island did the Allied forces need to take before invading Italy?

22. Who was the symbol for American women working in the defense plants?

23. What was the name of the riots that occurred in California between US sailors and young Mexican American men?

24. What was the name of the camps that Japanese Americans went into?

25. How many Jews died in the Holocaust?

26. What did FDR do to help AA in the Home front? Look up A. Philip Randolph

27. Where was the worst racial riot in the US during the 1940s?

28. What was the name of the famous AA pilots during WW2?

29. The first group of women to serve in the army doing side jobs…

30. What organization during the war helped stabilize prices to reduce the chances of inflation?

31. What was special about the 442nd Regiment in WW2?

32. Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?

33. What was the main reason why the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan?

34. Why did the US focus on the war in Europe first instead of the Pacific Theater?

35. What ended the Great Depression?

36. What was the name of the program to bring Mexicans into the US to work?

37. What is the other codename for D-Day?

38. What were the 4 Freedoms?

39. Why was there limited amount of help from the US dealing with the Holocaust?