Chapter 21 US History
It took the Allies five months to break through the German lines at Cassino and...
Anzio
During World War II, who was the highest ranking African American officer?
Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.
To help farmers in the Southwest overcome the labor shortage, the government introduced the...
Bracero Program.
On November 8, 1942, the American invasion of North Africa began under the command of General...
Dwight D. Eisenhower
True or False: Adolf Hitler was killed during the massive Allied bombing campaign.
False
True or False: Approximately 400,000 men enlisted in the army the month after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
False
True or False: During World War II, German and Japanese workers were more productive than American workers.
False
True or False: Hitler was convinced that the only way to defeat the Soviet Union was with naval attacks.
False
True or False: In World War II, the United States suffered more casualties in combat than any of its allies.
False
True or False: In the trials for war crimes after World War II, the Japanese emperor was sentenced to death.
False
True or False: Joseph Stalin wanted the Americans to send troops to the eastern front to help defend the Soviet Union.
False
True or False: On May 13, 1943, the last German forces in France surrendered.
False
True or False: President Roosevelt fully integrated the military after World War II was over.
False
What did Henry Stimson believe that companies needed in order to rapidly mobilize the economy?
Incentives
What was a direct result of the use of atomic weapons during World War II?
It created a nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Why was the Battle of Stalingrad important?
It put the Germans on the defensive for the rest of the war.
In the passage, which two fronts was Roosevelt referring to?
Japan and Germany
Which group played a vital role in the war effort after almost half of the soldiers had been in internment camps located in the American Southwest?
Japanese Americans
The excerpt describes the events during the early years of World War II when...
Japanese Americans were relocated to interment camps.
What does this passage tell us about the way World War II was won?
Moving troops and supplies quickly is critical.
How did Navajo soldiers help the Allies regain islands in the Pacific during the war?
Navajo soldiers used their native language to code messages that the Japanese could not decipher.
Where were the largest cities located?
On the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts
How did the successes of the Tuskegee Airmen and other African American units influence U.S. military policy?
President Truman fully integrated the military in 1948 following the war.
Companies that wanted to convert their factories to war production received loans from the...
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, two members of Congress introduced the...
Selective Service and Training Act.
If British and American troops opened a second front by attacking Germany from the west, it would take pressure off the..
Soviet Union
Which units, comprised of Japanese Americans, were the most decorated in the history of the United States military?
The 100th Infantry and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
The secret American program to build an atomic bomb was called...
The Manhattan Project.
Which of the following statements best summarizes the point Davis is making?
The indignities of segregation are an insult to African American soldiers.
What does this passage tell you about the Germans?
They could not move supplies and troops as quickly as the Allies.
True or False: A problem encountered in the island-hopping campaign in the central Pacific was that many of the islands were coral reef atolls.
True
True or False: Although the troops in the Bataan Peninsula surrendered in April 1942, a small force held out on the island of Corregidor in Manila Bay until May of that year.
True
True or False: American naval attacks forced the Japanese to limit their attack on New Guinea and kept the American supply lines to Australia open.
True
True or False: The Allies' massive bombing campaign against Germany destroyed so many aircraft factories that the Allies gained total control of the air.
True
True or False: The Doolittle Raid convinced Japanese leaders to attack Midway Island.
True
True or False: World War II put an end to the Great Depression.
True
Iwo Jima was an important objective for the American military because...
U.S. planes could bomb Japan from there.
Which of the following choices best completes the diagram?
V-E Day
Based on the map, which region gained more people than it lost?
West
Liberty ships could be produced quickly because they were...
assembled from prefabricated parts.
In the case Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that relocation of Japanese Americans was...
constitutional because it was based on military urgency.
Attacks on American cargo ships by German submarines led to the development of the...
convoy system
Roosevelt created the Fair Employment Practices Commission to...
end discrimination in hiring workers in defense industries.
During World War II, women were recruited into the U.S. military to...
ensure men were available for combat.
Based on the excerpt, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was a result of...
fear they posed a threat to national security, although no sabotage had been carried out by Japanese Americans.
Mobilizing the American economy for World War II created almost 19 million new jobs and...
finally ending The Great Depression.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan apologized to formerly interned Japanese Americans and...
granted each $20,000.
Roosevelt decided to invade Morocco and Algeria in order to...
help the British troops fight the Germans in Egypt
A central purpose of the Office of War Information was...
improving the public's understanding of the war.
The Supreme Court ruling in Korematsu v. United States claimed that...
in time of peril the government was justified in suspending citizens' civil rights.
In 1942 Secretary of War Henry Stimson declared most of the West Coast a military zone and ordered all people of Japanese ancestry to relocate to...
internment camps
During World War II, Americans bought over $150 billion worth of bonds in order to...
lend the government money to pay for the war.
Japan's goal in attacking Midway Island in June 1942 was to...
lure and destroy the American fleet.
As a result of a presidential order allowing the military to declare any part of the United States to be a military zone,
many Japanese Americans were moved to internment camps.
The Office of Price Administration began rationing, or limiting the availability of, many consumer products to make sure enough were available for...
military use
The U.S. caused massive fires in Tokyo by dropping bombs filled with...
napalm
The bombing campaign between January 1943 and May 1945 did not destroy Germany's economy or undermine German morale, but it did destroy many aircraft factories, wrecked the railroad system, and caused a severe...
oil shortage
The "Double V" campaign meant victory...
over Hitler's racism abroad and victory over racism at home.
The cost-plus system sped up war production by...
providing larger profits for companies that worked fast and produced a lot.
The International Military Tribunal (IMT) was created to...
punish German and Japanese military leaders.
Blue points and red points were a system for...
rationing goods.
Nearly one-third of all American military equipment made during World War II was manufactured by the...
ship-building industry.
What African American military unit was commended for its service during the Battle of the Bulge?What African American military unit was commended for its service during the Battle of the Bulge?
the 761st Tank Battalion
The Allies placed inflated rubber tanks, empty tents, and dummy landing craft along the coast of Britain to convince the Germans that...
the Allies planned to land their invasion forces in Pas-de-Calais.
The last, desperate German offensive of the war became known as...
the Battle of the Bulge
As a result of the Allied attack on Sicily,
the Italian king arrested Mussolini.
The Bataan Death March occurred in...
the Philippines
Rosie the Riveter was a symbol of...
the campaign to hire women to work in factories during the war.
The U.S. Marines had severe casualties at Tarawa in part because...
the shallow reef prevented many landing craft from reaching shore.
In 1942, Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt agreed to attack the edges of the German empire because they believed that...
their countries were not ready to launch a full-scale invasion of Europe.