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Valley High School
Chapter 25 Study Guide
What were E bonds used for?

To help raise money for the war.
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Who were the African American military unit
that flew planes in W.W. II?

The Tuskegee Airmen.
2
What was the first peacetime draft in
American history?

The Selective Service and Training Act
3
What was the name of the bomber that
dropped the first atomic bomb?

Enola Gay
4
What was the purpose of rationing?

To limit availability of consumer products
5
What was the name of the Japanese American
military unit?

442nd Regimental Combat Team
6
What was the name of the French beach in
Normandy stormed by American invasion
forces?
 Omaha
7
Where was the first time American troops had
to fight the German army in North Africa?

Kasserine Pass
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What was D-Day?

Beginning of Operation Overlord
9
What industry made over a third of all
military equipment during the war?

Automobile
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What does “Double V” campaign refer to?

Victory over Hitler’s racism and victory
over racism at home.
11
Where was the first time that Japanese used
kamikaze attacks?

Leyte Gulf
12
Where did the Bataan Death March occur?

In the Philippines
13
What was the key to the American success at
Midway?

Breaking the Japanese Navy’s secret code.
14
Why was the capture of Stalingrad important
to Hitler?

Because he wanted to destroy the Soviet
economy.
15
Why did migrant farm workers become an
important part of the Southwest’s agricultural
system?

Because of the Bracero Program
16
What did the Supreme Court rule in
Korematsu v. the United States?

That the relocation of Japanese Americans
was constitutional because it was based on
military urgency.
17
What was the result of the Allied attack on
Sicily?

The Italian king arrested Mussolini.
18
Why did the U.S. Marines have severe
casualties at Tarawa?

Because the shallow reef prevented many
landing craft from reaching shore.
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What was V-E Day?

Victory in Europe
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Who led the troops that rescued the
Americans trapped at Bastogne?

George Patton
21
Who, upon evacuating the Philippines, said “I
shall return”?

Douglas MacArthur
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Who was the director of the WAC?

Oveta Culp Hobby
23
Who signed a letter to Roosevelt warning that
powerful bombs may be constructed using
uranium (atomic bomb)?
 Albert Einstein
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Who was Benjamin O. Davis?

Highest-ranking African American officer in
the U.S. Army during W.W. II.
25
Who led the American team of engineers and
scientists building the atomic bomb?

Robert Oppenheimer
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Who was the head of the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters who pressured Roosevelt
to provide jobs for African Americans in
defense factories?

A. Philip Randolph
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Who was Chester Nimitz?

Commander of the United States Navy in
the Pacific.
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Who said, “I felt like the moon, the stars, and
all the planets had fallen on me”?

Harry S. Truman
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Who was in overall command of the invasion
of France?

Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What was the cost-plus system?

Sped up war production providing larger
profits for companies that worked fast and
produced a lot.
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Why were most Liberty ships hard to sink?

They were welded rather than riveted.
32
During World War II, why were women
recruited into the military?

To release men for combat.
33
What was Japan’s goal in attacking Midway
Island?

To destroy the American fleet there.
34
Why did Roosevelt create the Fair
Employment Practices Commission?

To enforce nondiscrimination in hiring
workers in defense industries.
35
As a result of a presidential order allowing the
military to declare any part of the U.S. to be a
military zone, what happened to many
Japanese Americans?

They were put in internment camps.
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What were “blue points” and “red
points”?

A system for rationing goods.
37
Why did the Allies place inflated rubber tanks,
empty tents, and dummy landing craft along
the coast of Britain?
 To convince the Germans that the Allies
planned to land their invasion forces in Pasde-Calais.
38
Why was Iwo Jima an important objective for
the American military?

Because U.S. planes could bomb Japan
from there.
39
How did the U.S. cause massive fires in
Tokyo?

By dropping bombs filled with napalm.
40
What finally put an end to the Great
Depression?

World War II
41
Who were the “Big Three” and where were
they from?

Stalin (Soviet Union)
 Roosevelt (United States)
 Churchill (Great Britain)
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What was the Manhattan Project?

The American program to build an atomic
bomb.
43
What was the name of the city that the U.S.
first dropped an atomic bomb on?

Hiroshima
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What was the name of the second city that the
U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on?

Nagasaki
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What were the names of the two atomic
bombs dropped on Japan?

Little Boy and Fat Man
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What was a kamikaze?

A Japanese pilot that deliberately crashed
their planes into American ships.
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When was D-Day?

June 6, 1944
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What was the turning point of the war in the
Pacific?

The Battle of Midway
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Of all the major powers involved in the war,
who had the fewest casualties in combat?

The United States.
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