Download APUSH Chapter 28 America in a World at War Essential Terms

APUSH Chapter 28
America in a World at War
Essential Terms
1. Douglas MacArthur
2. Admiral Chester Nimitz
3. Battle of Midway
4. Guadalcanal
5. George Marshall
6. Casablanca Conference
7. Effect of war on Depression
8. Smith-Connally Act
9. Office of Price Administration
10. Revenue Act of 1942
11. War Production Board (WPB)
12. National Defense Research
Committee
13. Enigma Machine
14. Philip Randolph
15. Fair Employment Practices
Commission (FEPC)
16. Great Migration (African
Americans)
17. Congress on Racial Equality
18. Code Talkers
19. Zoot Suit Riots
20. Rosie the Riveter
21. Latchkey Kids or Eight-Hour
Orphans
22. USO
23. War Relocation Authority
24. Korematsu v. US
25. Thomas Dewey
26. 1944 Election
27. Battle of the Bulge
28. Iwo Jima
29. Manhattan Project
30. Potsdam Conference
31. Hiroshima
32. Nagasaki
Multiple Choice Questions
1. One of the main features of U.S. foreign policy following World War II in contrast to
World War I was
a. a retreat into isolationism
b. requiring the German leaders to sign documents saying they were solely
responsible for the war
c. a willingness to join and participate fully in an international organization of
member states
d. the enactment of neutrality laws to prevent another intervention in a
European struggle
e. approving a reparations repayment plan for the losing nations
2. During World War II Japanese-Americans were
a. evacuated from their homes in Hawaii and the Pacific Coast to internment
camps
b. allowed to fight, but only in the Pacific theater of war
c. often deported back to Japan
d. treated as cruelly as Jews were in Nazi Germany.
e. often deprived of freedom and property
3. Which of the following is not true concerning the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945?
a. following the bombing, Japanese leaders hesitated several days before
surrendering
b. U.S. military planners predicted a land invasion of Japan would cost huge
casualties to both American and Japanese forces
c. President Truman first told Soviet Premier Josef Stalin of "a new weapon of
unusual destructive force "during the Potsdam Conference in July 1945
d. before Hiroshima, no civilian targets had been bombed by the American
military
e. the city of Nagasaki was bombed three days later
4. What important decision was made by the Allied leaders at the Tehran Conference
in November 1943?
a. that a replacement organization for the League of Nations would be created
after the war
b. that an unconditional surrender from Germany would be demanded by the
Allies
c. that the Soviet Union would attack Japan three months after the fall of
Germany
d. that the United States and Great Britain would launch a land invasion of
German-occupied France in the spring of 1944
e. that Germany would be divided into four sections following an Allied victory
5. The biggest surrender in American military history, involving almost 12,000 U.S.
soldiers, occurred where during World War 2?
a. at Kasserine Pass in North Africa
b. on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippine Islands
c. at the Battle of the Bulge in northern Europe
d. on Guadacanal Island in the South Pacific
e. at Anzio Beach in Italy
6. Which of the following statements about the World War II Potsdam Conference is
not accurate
a. Prime Minister Winston Churchill left the meeting following his party's
defeat in an election in Great Britain
b. the Allied leaders decided to defeat Germany first, then focus on Japan
c. it was decided that Nazi leaders would be tried as war criminals
d. Pres. Truman officially informed Soviet Premier Stalin of the existence of the
atomic bomb
e. all of the statements are accurate
7. Which of the following World War II-era (December 1941-August 1945) events did
not occur in California?
a. the establishment of the Manzanar camp for interned Japanese-Americans
b. the Zoot Suit riots in which Mexican-Americans were beaten by soldiers on
leave
c. a Japanese submarine shelling a pier north of Santa Barbara in 1942
d. a 1943 riot in a federally-sponsored housing project left 35 blacks and 9
whites dead
e. the movie "Casablanca" starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman was
produced in Hollywood
8. In which battle of World War II, fought in the winter of 1944-45, did the U.S. suffer
the greatest losses of killed and wounded soldiers?
a. Battle of the Bulge
b. Anzio Beach
c. Kasserine Pass
d. Guadalcanal
e. Iwo Jima
9. Following the surrender of American military forces in 1942, over 16,000 American
and Filipino troops died while being marched by Japanese troops to prison camps
here, in an incident that was later classified as a war crime:
a. Bataan
b. Guadalcanal
c. Iwo Jima
d. Midway
e. Okinawa