WWII American involvement part 1
Prime Minister of Japan.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
Office of Scientific Research and Development it was an effort to bring scientists into the war effort.
What is O.S.R.D.?
First great turning point of W.W.II.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
“Old Blood and Guts” the commander of the 3rd army in Operation Overlord.
Who is George Patton?
Commander of American Naval Forces in the Pacific.
Who is Chester Nimitz?
Japan’s revered emperor.
Who is Hironhito?
Roosevelt’s crash program to build an atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
Invasion of Axis controlled North Africa.
What is Operation Torch?
Hitler’s last major counter attack.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
Turning point in the war in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?
Largest U.S. naval base in the Pacific attacked December 7,1941
What is Pearl Harbor?
Native born Japanese Americans who were placed in Interment Camps during W.W.II.
What is Nisei?
Commander of Allied forces in North Africa.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Victory in Europe Day on May 8, 1945
What is V-E Day?
Plan to capture only a few strategic islands rather that all Japanese strongholds.
What is Island Hopping?
Pushed for the formation of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corp.
Who is General George Marshall?
Established a fixed allotment of goods deemed essential for the military.
What is rationing?
The planned invasion of Hitler’s Europe.
What is Operation Overlord?
Led the bombing of Tokyo.
Who is James Doolittle?
Japanese suicide plane attacks.
What is a Kamikaze?
Nations leading labor leader who organized a march on Washington to protest discrimination in the work place. FDR responded with executive order 8802, which opened federal jobs to African Americans.
Who is A. Phillip Randolph?
Soviet Union was desperate for help, Hitler was public enemy #1, and U.S. would have help against Japan were all seen as reasons for this.
What were three reasons that the Allies decided to defeat Germany First?
June 6, 1944 the largest land/sea (amphibious) invasion force in history
What is D-Day?
First time a Japanese invasion had been stopped.
What is the Battle of Coral Sea?
Led the island hopping campaign.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?