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Ernest king

Admiral in charge of naval operations in the pacific

"D-Day" refers to the

Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy

Chester nimitz

Allied leader of all naval forces Creator of the final solution

Men like Henry Ford. Charles Lindberg. And Father Coughlin were members of the

American First committee, an isolationist group

Who is considered the founder of fascism

Benito mussolini

11. In Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court

Deemed Japanese internment unconstitutional

10. Rosie the Riveter

Described only single women workers

22. The purpose of the war production board was to

Direct industrial conversion to war production

War relocation camps

Housed over 100,000 japanese-americans during the war

December 7, 1941, is known as a "date that will live in infamy,

referring to: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Francisco Franco established gov. in ?

spain

George Marshall

statesman and soldier in ww2 and cold war

The Lend- Lease Act

Authorized military aid to those fighting Germany and Japan

George patton

Controversial but successful US army general in europe

33. The general who led Allied troops in battles on the islands of Bataan, Leyte, and Iwo Jima was

Douglas MacArthur

Truman's aim in deciding to drop the atomic bomb was to ___.

End the war save American lives

General_______ led the Third Army into Paris to liberate the city from German occupation

George Patton

38. Who or what did President Roosevelt describe as "the rattlesnakes of the Atlantic"

German u boats and their crew

37. What happened during the battle of britain?

Germany bombed britain for two months

9. What was the "final solution"

Hitler's plan to mass-exterminate "undesirable" peoples

19. One way in which the japanese attack on pearl harbor was not a total success was that the japanese

Ignored shore installations and oil tanks

The Nye Committee

Investigated the role of the bankers and munitions makers in America's entry into WW1

One major motive for japan's expansionist policy was

Its need for oil, rubber, and other key resources

Which of the following islands was site of a major battle in the Pacific?

Iwo Jima

The Battle of the Bulge was significant because it marked the___.

Last German offensive

Reinhard heydrich

Leader of allied forces in europe

Douglas macarthur

Leader of army in the pacific

Charles degaulle

Leader of free france

To ensure that Russia joined the war against Japan in 1945 Roosevelt

Made certain secret agreements concerning Russian territorial demands

The new strategy used in the pacific in 1943 was

Neutralizing the Japanese strongholds, leaving them to die on the vine

In the late summer of 1940, President Roosevelt agreed to send fifty overages destroyers to Britain in return for

Ninety-nine-year leases on a series of naval and air bases

After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, Roosevelt

No longer professed impartiality in the impending European struggle

18. The american first committee

Pushed for more aid to britain and france in order to defend America

The Neutrality Act of 1939

Renewed America's isolationist stance toward the war in Europe

Dwight eisenhower

Supreme leader of the allied forces

35. On what did the German military strategy of blitzkrieg depend?

Surprise and overwhelming force

36. Which of the following did Adolf Hitler oppose?

The munich pact

The office of price administration

Was designed to raise consumer prices

8. The Holocaust

Was the mass extermination of millions of jews of Jews and other in Nazi death camps

27. The development of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima

Was the responsibility of the Manhattan Project

FDR's four freedoms include all except

freedom of enterprise

All of the following were conquered by the Nazi war machine EXCEPT

norway

The Neutrality Act of 1935

the sale of arms and munitions to warring nations


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