US History Units 7-8 Final Review

The purpose of the Manhattan Project was to

• provide economic aid to Latin American countries.

• develop atomic weapons for the U.S. military.

• bring about an end to poverty in U.S. urban areas.

• offer assistance to relocate European refugees.

During World War II the U.S. economy prospered

• due to the increased production of the military industries.

• because the New Deal programs ended.

• because people rationed sugar and gasoline.

• the oil prices.

The Axis Powers (bad guys) during World War II were

• Germany, Italy, and Japan.

• U.S., Italy, and Japan.

• Great Britain, the U.S., and Germany

• USSR and U.S.

This special fighting force in WWII helped to encrypt and decrypt military messages.

• Comanche Communicators

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Cherokee Code Talkers

• Apache Advisors

The nuclear family

• Were families affected by nuclear radiation

• Supported communism

• Enforced gender roles

• Usually had 2 dads

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy…” This quote from FDR on December 8, 1941 was in reference to

• a police attack on strikers in Detroit.

• The attack on the Twin Towers in NYC

• the collapse of the stock market.

• the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor

In Korematsu v. United States (1944), the Supreme Court upheld Japanese internment camps established in 1942 by ruling that they were

• part of an international agreement with other Allied powers.

• approved by both houses of Congress.

• allowed under the Fourteenth Amendment.

• necessary for national security.

This African American boy was brutally murdered in 1955 for allegedly flirting with a white woman.

• Emmett Till

• Stokely Carmichael

• Malcolm X

• Robert Kennedy

A military fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers or Japanese ancestry from Hawaii; the most decorated unit of its size in US military history

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Tuskegee Airmen

• The Riviters

• 442nd Combat Team

How did the GI Bill help people get ahead in life, leading to generational wealth?

• It offered benefits for veterans like going to college and buying houses

• It slowed the growth of the middle class

• Black veterans were included, helping black families

• Families were being started later in life while young people went to college