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3. What did the Tuskegee Airmen hope to win the Double V victory over in WWII? Win over racism and the Germans

4. Where did the British save all of their men when they were surrounded by the Germans? Dunkirk

5. What did the “GI” mean when referring to U.S. soldiers? Government issue

6. Everyone had to ration food and supplies. What happened to the U.S. economy during the war?

7. What did the U.S. use against the Japanese to get the Japanese soldiers out of the jungles on the islands? napalm

8. How did the U.S. increase the money supply during the war? Raised taxes

9. What did Hitler believe about Eastern Europeans? They should be slaves for the Aryans.

10. Why did Hitler lose the Battle of Britain? He quit bombing military targets and bombed the people in the cities.

11. What did the Neutrality Act of 1935 make illegal? To sell weapons to a country at war

12. To make explosives What did they use grease and meat drippings for during WWII?

13. San Francisco Where did the United Nations meet the first time?

14. New York Where is the current headquarters of the United Nations?

15. the Philippines Where did MacArthur have to leave his men behind causing him to vow “I shall return”?

16. 1939 What year did the war begin?

17. plan the Final Solution to kill the Jews What did the Nazis do at the Wansee Conference?

18. to save the lives of American soldiers Why did Truman use the atomic bomb?

19. Soviets won because the Germans had no winter supplies. Who won the Battle of Stalingrad?

20. Japanese American internees got $20,000 and an apology. What was done to correct Executive Order 9066?

21. Japanese, German, & Italian Americans What groups were sent to internment camps?

22. put in 10 remote internment camps Where did the Japanese Americans go due to Executive Order 9066?

23. Yes Were Japanese Americans able to serve in the U.S. military during the war?

24. Bernard Montgomery Who was the British general who helped push the Germans out of North Africa?

25. bomb Tokyo, Japan for the first time What did the Doolittle Raid do?

26. the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the jealousy over the success in Japanese businesses What two reasons cause the U.S. government to put Japanese Americans in camps?

27. 110,000 How many Japanese Americans were put in camps?

28. 2 ½ years How long were the Japanese Americans in internment camps?

29. Women’s roles drastically changed. What was the largest change on the home front during the war?

30. promote patriotism, recruit women for the war effort, and warn citizens about possible spies Besides releasing news about the war on the radio and video clips, name 3 other roles of War Office of Information.

31. Benito Mussolini in Italy Who did the Blackshirts support?

32. attack on Pearl Harbor What was Roosevelt referring to when he said, “Yesterday, Dec. 7 th, 1941, a date which shall live in infamy”?