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Question | Answer |
What were the years of involvement of the United States in WW2? | 1941-1945 ( 4 years ) |
What pull factors would lead to the Great Migration? | economic oppurtunities in industriziled cities |
What reason did the US goverment give for placing Japanese Americans in internment camps? | A fear japanese americans may support forces fighting the United States |
What was the basic reason leading up to the second world war? | rise of dictators and totlitarian states |
What was a major reason president truman gave for dropping the atomic bomb? | potentional loss of American lives from an invasion of Japan. |
How did dropping the bomb affect international relations? | It initated the armsrace with the soviet union ( RUSSIA) |
What would be an immediate cause of the US entry into WW2? | The japanesse navy attacking pearl harbor. |
How did the US contriubute to the war effort before entering the war? | we provided arms and ships to friendly europeans nations fighting germany. |
Why did the US government urge civillans to plant victory gardens during WW2? | food was needed for the soliders overseas |
How did the us goverment make extra matierals and supplies for the war effort? | they empossed cilivan rationing of needed products and supplies. |
How did civilans help pay for the war effort? | they bought war bonds |
Why was d-day so important to the outcome of WW2? | It opened a new allied front in europe |
Why was the battle of midway a turning point in the pacific theater during ww2? | japan was unable to recover from their loses due to the lack of factories and natural resources |
____________ is the american strategy in the pacific during WW2? | - island hopping |
Why did the US suffer less physical damage than other nations during both ww1 and ww2? | geographic location kept the US protected from most of the fighting. |
______________ was a US army cheif of staff that was described by Winston Churchill as the " organizer of victory" during WW2. | ------ General George Marshall |
What was the most important domestic result of the war effort in the us? | the swift ending of the great depression |
What was the manhattan project about? | working on the development of an atomic bomb |
The skill and courage of the Tuskegee Airmen served to ______ | decrease opposition to intergrating the armed forces |
Which army general served as commander of the Allied forces in Europe and was later elected president of the United States? | Dwight D. Eisenhawer |
The liberation of the concentration camps in Europe ended the ________ | ---- Holocaust |
The experiences of African Americans serving in the military during WW2 influenced their postwar decisions to ______ | ----- increased efforts to end racial discrimciption. |
The US enlarged its military during WW2 by______ | ---passing the selecting service act |
During WW2 the Supreme Court used Japanses Internment and felt it was constitutional because----- | ---this type of action was nessassary during a national emergency |
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