World War II

Executive Order 9066 relocated what ethnic group b/c Americans feared they would help the Axis Powers?

• Japanese
• Germans
• Italians
• Jews

What top-secret military project developed a new weapon & tested it at Los Alamos, NM?

• Manhattan Project
• Fat Man Project
• Operation Gamma
• Operation Gold

Why did the U.S. military use the Navajo language?

• difficult to decode
• easiest language to learn
• Japanese used it as code so we needed it translated
• Easy to teach to U.S. communication personnel

Why was the Battle of Midway the turning point in the Pacific War?

• Germans never won any battles after it

• U.S. lost its entire fleet

• It resulted in an American victory

• U.S. now could launch planes to bomb mainland Japan

What happened to American POW's when they surrendered in the Philippines?

• executed
• Bataan Death March
• they were sent to Chinese death camps
• they were released

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What was the significance of the D-Day invasion?

• opened a 2nd front to the war in Europe
• Allied Forces liberated Italy
• Allied forces were defeated
• Hitler conquered Denmark, Norway, & Belgium

Admiral Chester Nimitz, the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Naval Fleet, developed what strategy to defeat the Japanese where they only focused on attacking strategic locations?

• island hopping

• search and destroy missions

• total war

• guerrilla warfare

The Office of Price Administration set up what system to prevent scarce food items from running out? 

• rationing
• price controls
• war bonds
• victory gardens

How did war bonds, victory gardens, & scrap drives impact the war effort?

• they provided needed supplies for the troops

• they convinced people to work in war factories

• they caused anti-war rallies

• they had no impact

What punished Germany harshly & became the basis for Hitler's European conquests?

• Treaty of Versailles
• Atlantic Charter
• Treaty of Paris
• Dawes & Young Plan

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