Homework 29 - Chapter 25: The United States In World War II
Read pages 766 to 805. Answer the questions.
Section 1: Mobilizing for Defense
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What is moving about Mrs. Swanson taped message to her soldier husband?
What was the battle cry for most Americans?
How many volunteered to serve in the military?
What is Selective Service System?
How long was basic training?
Who was George Marshall?
Where was he from?
What is the WAAC?
How many served?
Why is this a history making organization?
How did blacks, Hispanics, and Asian Americans face discrimination in the military? What kind?
How many Hispancis served in the military?
Blacks?
Asians?
Indians?
Martians?
What happened to most car and automobile plants?
How fast could huge Liberty ships be assembled?
How many industrial workers were women?
Who was A. Philipp Randolph?
What did he threaten to do?
What important concession did Randolph get from President Roosevelt?
What project did the OSRD begin in 1941?
Why was this such an important operation?
How did the Office of Price Administration help the US war effort?
What was the War Production Board?
Why was rationing of goods necessary during the war?
Section 2: The War for Europe and North Africa
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What happened to John McGrath while performing for an exam?
What kind of relationship did FDR and Churchill have?
After Pearl Harbor what did Hitler order German U Boats to do?
Why was the Battle of the Atlantic perhaps the most important battle to win for the US and
Great Britain?
5. How did convoys protect cargo vessels?
6. What course had the Battle of the Atlantic changed by the middle of 1943?
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Why did the German attack into Russia stop in November of 1941?
Why did Hitler want to control Stalingrad?
What made combat in the Battle of Stalingrad brutal?
How did the Russians manage to win this battle?
How many Soviet soldiers died at Stalingrad?
Why is Stalingrad considered a turning point battle?
What was Operation Torch?
What had happened to the German army in North Africa by the spring of 1943?
Why did the Allies choose to invade Italy first instead of France?
What happened to Mussolini in 1943?
What made the Battle of Anzio one of the costliest victories for the Allies?
Why did it take 2 years to free Italy of Nazi control?
What was unique about the 99th Pursuit Squadron?
IN what way did the 92nd Infantry Division distinguish itself?
Who were the Nisei soldiers?
Why was the 100th Nisei Regiment known as the Purple Heart BAttaliion?
What honor does the 442nd Regimental Combat Team of Nisei soldiers still hold to this day?
Who was in charge of Operation Overlord?
What was Operation Overlord?
Why was D Day cancelled on June 5th?
Where did the Germans believe the D Day invasion was going to occur?
Where did D Day actually happen?
What made Omaha Beach some of the most hallowed ground in US History?
What was the name of the US General who secured St. Lo from the Nazis?
Who liberated the city of Paris from Nazi rule?
How did Allied success help FDR politically?
How did Audie Murphy distinguish himself?
What was the name of the last Nazi Offensive in Western Europe?
How did the Nazis hope to achieve victory in the Ardennes Forest?
How long did this battle last?
How much men and material did the Nazis lose?
How did the Allies react to the liberation of the concentration camps?
Who stormed Berlin and captured the Nazi capital?
What did Hitler do on April 29th?
What did Hitlrer do shortly before his death?
What happened on May 8th?
What happened on April 12th?
Who became the next president?
Section 3: The War in the Pacific
1. What was Willilam Manchester’s reaction to killing a Japanese sniper?
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What was the most valuable US naval asset that could be used against Japan in 1942?
After Pearl Harbor which islands quickly fell into Japanese hands in 1942?
What happened to 80,000 American and Filipino soldiers in the Philippines?
Who was the US General in charge of the Phillippines?
What pledge did he make?
How did Col. Doolittles raid on Japan impact both the US and the Japanese?
What was unique about the Battle of the Coral Sea?
Why did the Japanese want to invade Midway Island?
Who was the US admiral in charge during Midway operations?
What was the result of the battle of Midway?
Why was this devastating to Japan?
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
Why were they indispensable?
Why was the Battle of Guadalcanal also known as the Island of Death?
What was the US strategy for recapturing Pacific Islands from Japan?
What new weapon was unleashed at the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
How many pilots were shot down?
What did Americans think of captured kamikaze pilots?
How bad were Japan’s losses at Leyte Gulf?
Why was the island of Iwo Jima important to the US?
How many Marines fell trying to take that island?
What made Iwo Jima a symbol to never forget?
How much damage did the Kamikaze inflict on the US Navy during the Battle of Okinawa?
How many Japanese died on Okinawa?
Why would the Japansese refuse to surrender?
Look at the yellow box on 789 what made MacArthur unique as a famous general?
Who was the scientist who supervised the development of the A Bomb?
What was successfully done in New Mexico?
What difficult decision did Truman have to make?
Which 2 cities were destroyed by the A Bomb?
How many died from the blasts?
What happened on September 2nd?
Who supervised this final act?
What ship was the host of this event?
Who met at the Yalta Conference?
What important role did FDR have in the meeting?
What world organization was created at Yalta?
Why did the Allies divide Germany?
What promises did Stalin make?
What happened at the Nuremberg trials?
Why are they unique in US History?
What important principle was established?
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Why did the US occupy Japan?
In what way was this a wise and beneficial move?
Which American is revered and loved by the Japanese?
Why?
Section 4: The Home Front
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What did Maya Angelou observe about African Americans in WWII?
How did the US economically benefit from WWII?
How did workers, farmers, and women benefit from the economy of WWII?
What did over a million African Americans in the south decide to do?
Why were so many people moving around the nation?
How was the war period hard on families and children?
What was the GI Bill of Rights?
Why is this one of the best government programs of all time?
Who was James Farmer and what was CORE?
How did they battle injustice?
What happened in LA during the summer of 1943?
Why?
What is interment?
Why did the US government detain thousands of Japanese American citizens for years?
What did the court case Karematsu v. US decide?
How did Congress try to make up for the terrible mistake?