| A | B |
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| Who were the most productive workers in WWII(country)? | United States |
| When was the military fully integrated? | 1948 |
| What vessels were saved from Pearl Harbor? | aircraft carriers |
| How could the Americans help the Soviet Union? | gave them weapons |
| How did Adolf Hitler die? | committed suicide |
| How did the cost-plus system help war production? | it got more businesses to turn over thier company to make war materials |
| What made the liberty ships so hard to sink? | welding |
| What were the multiple roles of women during WWII? | industry (factories) and nurses |
| What was the result after President Roosevelt signed an order letting the military declare any part of the United States a military zone? | we started to put Japanese Americans in internment camps |
| What was the U.S.'s purpose in taking control of Iwo Jima? | airbases |
| Why was it so critical for Hitler to take Stalingrad from the Soviets? | oil fields, industries, and land |
| What was the decision and precedent set in Korematsu V. the United States? | Supreme Court ruled that the relocation of Japanese Americans was constitutional because it was not based on race but on military urgency |
| How did Mussolini lose his position of power and regain it in Italy? | We captured him, put him in jail but Germans recaptured him |
| cost-plus | government pays cost plus profit for manufacturing |
| convoy system | cargo ships traveled in groups and were escorted by navy warships which lessened loss of ships by the enemy |
| Douglas MacArthur | Commander(rank of General) of the American and Filipino forces defending the Philippines |
| rationing | limiting the availability of many products to make sure enough were available for military use |
| Victory Garden | Americans planted these gardens to produce more food for the war effort in backyards, schoolyards, city parks, and empty lots |
| "Rosie the Riveter" | a popular character in the campaign to hire women in factories during WWII |
| kamikaze | a technique used by Japanese pilots where they would deliberately crash their planes into American ships killing themselves and inflicting severe damage- the word means "divine wind" in Japanese |
| Operation Overlord | code name for the planned invasion of France by the Allies |
| Guadalcanal | the invasion here began General MacArthur's campaign to control the southwest Pacific |
| napalm | a kind of jellied gasoline placed in the bombs dropped by planes in Japan |
| Manhattan Project | code name given to the American program to build the atomic bomb |
| V-J Day | Victory in Japan-August 15, 1945 |
| United Nations | an international political organization that would prevent another world war |
| zoot suit | very baggy, pleated pants and an overstuffed, knee-length jacket with wide lapels accessorized by a wide brimmed hat & long key chain |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | commander of operation overlord(the Allied invasion of France) |
| Chester Nimitz | commander(rank of Admiral) of the United States Navy in the Pacific that ambushed and beat the Japanese naval fleet at the Battle of Midway, which was a turning point in the war |
| Robert Oppenheimer | leader of the American team to build the atomic bomb at a secret laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico |
| D-Day | referred to the date for the invasion of France by the Allied troops which was June 6, 1944 |
| "Enola Gay" | the B-29 bomber plane that dropped the first atomic bomb(nicknamed Little Boy) on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf | the largest naval battle in history and the first time that the Japanese used kamikaze attacks(to take the Philippines |
| Battle of Kasserine Pass | first battle between American troops and German troops-the Americans were outmaneuvered and outfought suffering 7,000 casualties and lost 200 tanks-after this battle the commanding gerneral was fired and Eisenhower put General Patton in charge |
| Omaha | code name for a section of beach invaded by American troops which took heavy fire from the Germans-but the Americans advanced and took the beach |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe-May 7, 1945 |
