The Japanese wanted this island as a base to bomb Pearl Harbor and control the North Pacific but were defeated.
What is Midway?
100
Russians surround an entire German army and go on the offensive.
What is Stalingrad?
100
Flying Fortress.
What is B-17?
100
A branch of the Army for women.
What is WACS?
100
These included:
-finding more job opportunities
-progress in easing discrimination in industry & government
What were gains made by blacks as a result of World War II?
200
True or False?
Japan seized Guadalcanal and established an air base there. Under the Allied policy of active defense, this could not be allowed.
What is True?
200
During this battle, for the first time in history in a great naval encounter no ship on either side was within site of an opposing ship. It was aircraft carrier against aircraft carrier.
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea?
200
Six million Jews exterminated in gas chambers and concentration camps.
What is the Holocaust?
200
Women in the Navy.
What is WAVES?
200
German armored force.
What is Panzer?
300
They were forced to sell their homes and businesses on short notice and at sacrifice prices. They they were confined in camps, watched by armed guards, and treated as if they were dangerous.
Who were West Coast Japanese-Americans?
300
The wolfpack up against radar and sonar.
What is the Battle of the Atlantic?
300
Outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, creed, or color in the federal government or in defense factories.
What is Executive Order 8802?
300
Women in the Coast Guard.
What is SPARS?
300
The winner in the U.S. Presidential election of 1944.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
(He won by 3.6 million votes and by 432-99 in the electoral college....I'm guessing people liked him! Yes this comment means this answer counts as double).
400
President Truman knew this might kill many thousands of innocent Japanese people. But life for life, the odds were that it would cost less.
What is the atomic bomb?
400
Target of first atomic bomb.
What is Hiroshima?
400
War won in Europe.
What is V-E Day?
400
A black doctor who developed the blood bank for collecting and storing the blood plasma which injured fighting men so badly needed.
Who was Charles Drew?
400
A British general who led the Eighth Army to defeat the Afrika Korps.
Who was Bernard Montgomery?
500
The Japanese navy was virtually knocked out of the war during this battle.
What is the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
500
The capture of this island brought the United States within striking distance of the Japanese homeland.
What is Okinawa?
500
Site of meeting where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin made fateful decisions regarding postwar world.
What is Yalta?
500
A black labor leader who organized a march on Washington in 1941 that threatened to bring 100,000 blacks to the capital to protest against racial discrimination in wartime hiring.