Unit 10, Section 3 HW

Key Term #14: This Pacific battle occurred 6 months after Pearl Harbor. The US caught the Japanese off guard and was a huge victory

• Battle of Iwo Jima
• Battle of Guadalcanal
• Battle of Midway
• Battle of Leyte Gulf

Key Term #15: This was the strategy used in the Pacific to defeat the Japanese where the US would go from island to island forcing the Japanese to retreat

Key Term #16: The ​ (a)   was the secret plan to construct the atomic bomb.

• Manhattan Project
• Operation Paperclip
• Project Blue Book
• The Apollo Program

Key Term #17: Who became president after Franklin D. Roosevelt passed away?

• Herbert Hoover
• Harry S. Truman
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Dwight D. Eisenhower

Key Term #18: Where did the US drop the atomic bombs in August 1945?

• Nagasaki

• Tokyo

• Hiroshima

• Osaka

Key Term #19: What was the Selective Service Act (1940)?

• A law that provided financial aid to veterans.
• A program for voluntary military service.
• A treaty to end World War II.
• A peacetime draft into military service.

Key Terms #20-22

• Rosie the Riveter

• Americans were encouraged to grow gardens in their backyards to help with the war effort

• Victory Gardens

• Regulated the economy during WW2

• War Productions Board

• Symbol for women in the workforce during WW2

Question #14: Why didn’t FDR celebrate VE Day along with the rest of the American people?

• FDR had died on April 12, 1945, before VE Day.
• FDR did not believe in celebrating military victories.
• FDR was celebrating in a different country.
• FDR was too busy with other affairs on VE Day.

Question #15: What June 1942 American victory was the turning point of World War II in the Pacific?

• Battle of Coral Sea
• Battle of Guadalcanal
• Battle of Leyte Gulf
• Battle of Midway