Card Number - Suffolk Public Schools Blog
|Card Number |Front |Back |
|1 |World War II |Nothing, since this is the title card |
|2 |Who was president during World War II? |Franklin D. Roosevelt |
|3 |What event started World War II in Europe? |Hitler invaded Poland |
|4 |What were the Axis nations during World War II? |Germany, Italy, Japan |
|5 |What was the Battle of Britain? |Hitler’s air attack on Great Britain |
|6 |What country did Hitler invade in mid-1941? |The Soviet Union |
|7 |What was the position of the U.S. during the first two years of World |neutral |
| |War II? | |
|8 |What policy had strong support in the U.S. during the first two years of|isolationism |
| |World War II? | |
|9 |Identify the Lend-Lease Act. |Said the President could sell, lease, or lend military equipment to countries who|
| | |were fighting the Axis powers |
|10 |How did America’s policy towards Japan change after the Japanese |Refused to recognize Japanese conquests in Asia |
| |invasion of Manchuria and China? |U.S. embargo on oil and steel exports to Japan |
|11 |Why did U.S. get involved in World War II? |Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor |
|12 |Who was the leader of Germany during World |Adolf Hitler |
| |War II? | |
|13 |Who were the Allies in World War II? |Great Britain, Soviet Union, and United States |
|14 |Who was the leader of Great Britain during World War II? |Winston Churchill |
|15 |Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II? |Joseph Stalin |
|16 |What strategy did the Allies follow? |Defeat Hitler first |
|17 |What happened at |British defeated the Germans in North Africa; turning point of the war in the |
| |El Alamein? |Middle East |
|18 |What happened at the Battle of Stalingrad? |Soviets defeated the Germans; turning point of the war in Europe on the eastern |
| | |front |
|19 |What happened at the Normandy landings or |Allied troops defeated the Germans; turning point of the war in Europe on the |
| |D-Day? |western front |
|20 |Who was commander of the Allied forces at the D-Day invasion? |Dwight D. Eisenhower |
|21 |What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific? |Battle of Midway |
|22 |What was the Allied strategy in the Pacific? |Island hopping |
|23 |What two Pacific islands did the Americans invade to get closer to |Iwo Jima and Okinawa |
| |Japan? | |
|24 |How did the U.S. end the war in the Pacific? |Dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
|25 |During World War II, who took factory jobs when the men went to war? |women |
|26 |What image represented American women who worked in factories during |Rosie the Riveter |
| |World War II? | |
|27 |Who were the Tuskegee Airmen? |African-American flyers during World War II |
|28 |What were the Nisei regiments? |Japanese-American regiments in World War II |
|29 |What Native American language was used by the U.S. military during World|Navajo |
| |War II for communication codes in the Pacific? | |
|30 |What international agreement set the rules for the humane treatment of |Geneva Convention |
| |prisoners of war? | |
|31 |What happened on the Bataan Death March? |Many American POWs in the Philippines suffered brutal treatment by their Japanese|
| | |captors |
|32 |What is genocide? |The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, or cultural |
| | |group |
|33 |What was the Holocaust? |Nazi Germany’s systematic murder of European Jews |
|34 |What was Hitler’s “final solution”? |Exterminate (kill) all the Jews in Europe |
|35 |What were the Nuremberg Trials? |Trials of Nazi leaders for war crimes |
|36 |In 1948 what nation was founded by Jewish settler living in Palestine? |Israel |
|37 |How did the U.S. maintain an adequate supply of products for the war |Rationing: each family received a monthly allowance of essential items (sugar, |
| |effort? |gasoline, meat) |
|38 |How did the Roosevelt administration finance World War II? |War bonds |
| | |Federal income tax |
|39 |What African-American leader led the fight for desegregation of the |Philip Randolph |
| |armed forces and equal hiring in defense jobs? | |
|40 |What was the Selective Service Act? |The law that set up the first peacetime draft in American history |
|41 |What happened to most Japanese-Americans during World War II? |Put in internment camps, where they were made to stay until the end of the war |
|42 |How did the Supreme Court rule in Korematsu v. United States? |Upheld the government’s right to act against Japanese-Americans living on the |
| | |West Coast |
| | |Upheld the policy to place Japanese-Americans in internment camps |
|43 |What was the role of the American media and entertainment industries |Promoted nationalism |
| |during World War II? | |
|44 |Define nationalism. |Strong feeling of patriotism or devotion to one’s country |
................
................
In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.
To fulfill the demand for quickly locating and searching documents.
It is intelligent file search solution for home and business.
Related searches
- richmond public schools education found
- nyc public schools job openings
- baltimore city public schools schedule
- baltimore city public schools calendar
- maryland public schools report card
- oklahoma public schools report card
- baltimore city public schools jobs
- baltimore county public schools calendar
- baltimore city public schools self service
- baltimore county public schools calendar 2019 2020
- baltimore city public schools employee
- baltimore city public schools list