Casey and Chasen's Rad Chapter 25 Final Review

Question 1

This important Japanese city was the first target of the American atomic bomb...

Accepted Answer

Hiroshima

Question 2

This name was given to May 8, 1945, when the Nazis surrendered unconditionally...

Accepted Answer

V-E Day

Question 3

This agency was formed to help convert certain companies from peacetime to war production...

Accepted Answer

War Production Board (WPB)

Question 4

This organization pushed the U.S. government to compensate Japanese Americans for internment...

Accepted Answer

Japanese American Citizen League (JACL)

Question 5

In this battle, the Allies swiftly defeated the attacking Japanese on an island near Hawaii...

Accepted Answer

Battle of Midway

Question 6

This U.S. Army unit was created to enable women to serve in non combat positions during WWII...

Accepted Answer

Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)

Question 7

This interracial organization was created by James Farmer to combat Northern segregation...

Accepted Answer

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Question 8

This general advanced through a gap in the Nazi defense and took the Seine River and Paris...

Accepted Answer

George Patton

Question 9

This policy was wrongly enacted on a large number of Japanese Americans during WWII...

Accepted Answer

Internment

Question 10

This general lead the Allied invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa called Operation Torch...

Accepted Answer

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 11

How did the role of woman change due to the war effort?

Accepted Answer

Woman started to take more jobs

Question 12

This was the codename of the U.S. program that developed atomic bombs for use in WWII...

Accepted Answer

Manhattan Project

Question 13

This name was given to June 6, 1944, the day the Allies successfully invaded Nazi Europe...

Accepted Answer

D-Day

Question 14

This general was the commander of the Allied forces on the Pacific front during WWII...

Accepted Answer

Douglas MacArthur

Question 15

This African American labor leader convinced FDR into calling for racial equality in labor...

Accepted Answer

A. Philip Randolph

Question 16

How did the Allies settle the fate of Germany immediately after WWII?

Accepted Answer

Germany was divided into four Ally controlled sectors

Question 17

This was one of the moral arguments FOR the use of the atomic bombs...

Accepted Answer

It would end the war quicker and save American lives

Question 18

This 1944 law provided education and financial benefits for WWII veterans...

Accepted Answer

G.I. Bill of Rights, Serviceman Readjustment Act

Question 19

These court proceedings that took place after WWII tried Nazi leaders for their war crimes...

Accepted Answer

Nuremberg Trials

Question 20

This agency was created during WWII to help control inflation by freezing prices on goods...

Accepted Answer

Office of Price Administration (OPA)

Question 21

This admiral was in charge of Allied Naval forces on the Pacific front during WWII...

Accepted Answer

Chester Nimitz

Question 22

Why did the U.S. choose to subject Japanese Americans to internment during WWII?

Accepted Answer

To guard against a possible change in loyalty

Question 23

This was one of the moral arguments AGAINST the use of the atomic bombs in WWII...

Accepted Answer

It would cause Japanese civilian casualties

Question 24

This Japanese tactic trained pilots to deliberately fly bomb-laden planes into enemy targets...

Accepted Answer

Kamikaze

Question 25

This general provided a gap in the Nazi line of defense when he bombarded them at St. Lô...

Accepted Answer

Omar Bradley

Question 26

This American scientist lead the attempt to create atomic weapons for use in WWII...

Accepted Answer

Robert J. Oppenheimer

Question 27

This important Japanese city was the second target of the American atomic bomb...

Accepted Answer

Nagasaki

Question 28

This last major German offensive was turned back by the Allies after a month of fighting...

Accepted Answer

Battle of the Bulge

Question 29

This person was the VP when FDR died, which resulted in his Presidency near the end of WWII...

Accepted Answer

Harry S. Truman

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