| A | B |
|---|
| remained neutral during the war | Sweden |
| Where did the Allied forces first invade Axis-controlled Europe? | the island of Sicily |
| How long did the Battle of Stalingrad last? | about five months |
| What area did Allied troops invade in 1942? | North Africa |
| The symbol for women in the workplace during World War II | Rosie the Riveter |
| With respect to finding jobs, the World War II years marked a period of _____ for African Americans. | advance |
| Nisei who lived on the West Coast of the U.S. were subjected to _____ during World War II. | internment |
| Provided education, training, and loans to returning World War II veterans. | G.I. Bill of Rights |
| Founder of the Congress on Racial Equality | James Farmer |
| Organization formed to confront urban segregation in northern cities. | Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) |
| World War II veteran who was considered "twice a patriot" but was considered a second-class citizen. | Obie Bartlett |
| The confinement of almost 1500 Japanese Americans on the west coast. | internment |
| The Nuremberg Trials sought to punish for war crimes mainly the leaders of | Germany |
| The Japanese finally surrendered after the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on | Nagasaki |
| The island on which nearly 8,000 U.S. soldiers and some 110,000 Japanese soldiers lost their lives was | Okinawa |
| the plan to develop the atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| defeated at the Battle of Midway after its plans of attack were intercepted | Japan |
| Many average Americans contributed to the war effort by engaging in | rationing |
| The most significant development of the Office of Scientific Research and Development was the _____. | atomic bomb |
| The Office of Price Administration tried to fight _____ by freezing prices on most goods. | inflation |
| By 1944, _____ made up about a third of all workers laboring in war-related industries. | women |
| While segregated and limited largely to noncombat roles, about 1 million _____ served in the U.S. military during the war. | African Americans |
| This day marked the end of the war in Europe. | V-E Day |
| This death camp was the first liberated by the Allies. | Majdanek |
| This general commanded Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Europe. | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| This day marked the invasion of Nazi-controlled Europe. | D-Day |
| This was the code name for the invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa. | Operation Torch |
| Convoys, sonar, and radar helped the Allies to win this battle. | Battle of the Atlantic |
| This general led the American troops that liberated Paris from German occupation. | George S. Patton |
| The initial success of this German offensive battle was due manily to the Allies' being caught off guard. | Battle of the Bulge |
| created by Congress to fight the threat of inflation | Office of Price Administration (OPA) |
| expanded the draft and eventually mustered 10 million soldiers | Selective Service System |
| the method used to decrease the use of scarce and essential wartime goods | rationing |
| this gave its members official status and salary, and, a year later, granted them full U.S. Army benefits | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps |
| Army Chief of Staff pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps | George Marshall |
| strongly encouraged President Roosevelt to issue an executive order discouraging discrimination in the workplace | A. Phillip Randolph |
| assumed the responsibility for converting industry from peacetime to wartime industries | War Production Board (WPB) |
| responsible for improvements in radar and sonar and the development of "wonder drugs" | Office of Scientific Research and Development |
| a policy allowing the president to provide arms to certain foreign countries | Lend-Lease Act |
| German U-boats and their crews | "the rattlesnakes of the Atlantic" |
| The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews. | Holocaust |
| "night of broken glass", Nazi stormtroopers ataacked Jewish communities across Germany | Kristallnacht |
| The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population. | Genocide |
| Hitler's plan to eradicate Jews and undesireables. | The Final Solution |
| Segregated Jewish communities in Polish cities. | Ghettos |
| Prisons set up for "undesirables" to work until they died. | concentration camps |
| suffered 6 million deaths during the Holocaust | Jews |
| Japanese Prime Minister _____ ordered the Japanese navy to prepare for attack on the U.S | Hideki Tojo |
| Germany, Italy, and Japan were called the _____ powers. | Axis |
| Congress boosted defense spending and created the first peacetime _____ in U.S. history | draft |
| Japan launched a surprise attack on the naval base at _____. | Pearl Harbor |
| won the Battle of Britain | Britain |
| This British prime minister signed the Munich Pact | Neville Chamberlain |
| After the fall of France, he set up a government in exile in Britain | Charles de Gualle |
| "lightning war" | blitzkrieg |
| Prior to the invasion of Poland, this is what Germany and the Soviet union agreed to | nonaggression pact |
| This nation ceased to exist after it was divided between Germany and the Soviet Union | Poland |
| By signing the Munich Pact, Britain and France agreed to take this policy toward German agression | appeasement |
