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What was the cost-plus program? |
The government agreed to pay a company whatever it cost to make a product plus a guaranteed percentage of the costs as profit. The more a company produced, the more money it would make. It convinced many companies to convert to war production. |
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Why could liberty ships be built so quickly? |
They were welded instead of riveted. They were made of prefabricated materials. |
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Why did Roosevelt decide to invade Morocco and Algeria? |
The invasion would give the army some experience without requiring a lot of troops. Once American troops were in North Africa, they would be able to help the British troops fight the Germans in Egypt. |
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What was Japan's goal in attacking Midway? |
to destroy the American fleet |
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Why was the Fair Employment Practices Commission created? |
to enforce order; It was the first civil rights agency the federal government had established since the Reconstruction Era. |
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Why did people buy war bonds? |
to help pay for the war; to make up the difference between what was needed and what taxes supplied |
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What were the blue and red points for? |
rationing food; blue - controlled processed food; red - controlled meats, fats, and oils |
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Why did the Allies inflate rubber tanks and dummy landing crafts on the coast of Britain? |
They planned to invade the coast of Germany instead of France. |
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Why was Iwo Jima an important military base? |
It was perfectly located between the Marianas and Japan; The pilots needed an island closer to Japan so the B-29s could refuel. |
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What were the firebombs made of that were dropped on Tokyo? |
napalm - jellied gasoline |
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Where was nearly 1/3 of all military equipment made during the war? |
auto industry |
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What was the Bataan Death March? |
Nearly 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to march - sick exhausted, and starving - 65 miles to a Japanese prison camp. Almost 10,000 troops died on this march.; in the Philippines |
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Why did Hitler want to capture Stalingrad? |
to destroy the Soviet economy |
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What was the Bracero Program? |
helped farmers in the Southwest overcome the labor shortage |
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What was Korematsu vs. US? |
relocation of Japanese Americans was constitutional because it was based on military urgence |
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What happened as a result of the Allied attack on Sicily? |
the Kind arrested Mussolini |
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Why were women recruited into the military? |
Many jobs in the army were administrative and clerical. Giving women these jobs made more men available for combat. |
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What order required the Japanese American to enter internment camps? |
Stimson declared West Coast military ZO |
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What was Double-V? |
campaign that urged African Americans to support the war to get a double victory |
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Why did Churchill and Roosevelt agree to attack the edges of the German empire? |
their countries were not ready to launch a full-scale invasion of Europe |
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Attacks on American cargo ships by German subs led to the development of what? |
the convoy system |
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Why was the battle of Stalingrad important? |
put the Germans on the defensive |
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Why was invading Iwo Jima so difficult? |
volcanoes, rugged, rocky cliffs, caves |
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What was the Manhattan Project? |
the secret American program to build an atomic bomb |
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What was the Nuremberg Trial? |
the IMT held trials in Nuremberg Germany |
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Who was Rosie Riveter? |
A symbol of the campaign to hire women to work in factories during the war |
