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| Who founded (CORE) congress of Racial Equality? | James Farmer |
| What did the (JAIL) Japanese Amer. Citizens League do for Jananese Amer. after the war? | *Govt. to compenstate those sent to camps for their lost property *called for payjment to each indiv. who suffered evacuation &internment |
| What Janpanese sities did the atomic bombs get dropped on? | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| The code name for the Allies invasion of France? | D-Day |
| What was the name of the conference that the UN was formed? | Yalta Conference |
| What did the Govt. do to combat wartime inflation? | *raise and extend the income tax. *impose wage and price control *encourage the purchase of war bonds. |
| What did the office of price administration (OPA) do? | fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods. |
| What was the GI bill passed to do for servicemen? | *To provide education and training for veterans *to provide loan guarantees to veterans buying homes and farms or starting businesses. |
| Who is A. Philip Randolph? | *Organized a march on Washington *President of teh Brotherhood of sleeping Car Porters *Called for equal rights inboth the military and denfense industry for blacks |
| Who met in February 1945 at Yalta to create the United Nations (UN)? | Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin |
| Which country had its capital city divided into 4 sectors after the war? | Germany |
| George Patton | *led the 3rd Army *liberated Paris from 4 years of German occupation *Said "Dear Ike: toaday I spat in the seine" |
| Which Soviet city did the germans fail to capture that was near a major supply route and was a truning point for the allies? | Stalingrad |
| Who commanded the troops of Operation Torch? | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Why was the Battle of the Bulge important to the Allies? | It was Germany's last stand. All the (German's) could do was retreat when it was over |
| Why did Germany nearly win the Battle of the Bulge? | *Allies did not believe thier own intelligence reports of major campaign by Hilter. |
| Who made the decision to use the atomic bomb? | Truman |
| Chester Nimitz | *Commander of US naval forces in the Pacific. *Intercepted massages that Japanese forces of over 110 ships was headed toward Midway |
| What is V-E Day? | May 8, 1945 *unconditional surrender of the Thirs Reich * V-E Day=Victroy in Europe Day |
| Mac Arthur vowed to return where after he was forced out? | Philippines |
| Another name for concentration camp? | Gigantic Murder Plant |
| What are Nisei's? | Jananese AMer. born in the United States? |
| Who was the scientist that headed the Manhattan Project? | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| What did the War Production Board oversee? | The conversion from peacetime to wartime economy |
| The code Name for the Atomic Bomb was? | Manhattan Project? |
| What contributed to the Soviet victory at the Battle of Stalingrad? | *Harsh Winter *Soviet Counterattack *Hilter refused to order a retreat |
| What was Congress of Racial Equality founded to do? | To confront urban segregation in the North |
| General MacArthur | Led US troops into battle on the Pacific Islands of layte, Gradalcanal and Okinawa *Hleped Rebuild Japan after the war * The Japanese Constitution is known as MacArthur Constitution |
