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Define bracero and give the page number where you found it in the text.
Define beachhead and give the page number where you found it in the text.
What was the “fundamental” strategy for World War II when they first entered in 1941?
What was the strategy for the war in the Pacific called?
What battle did Hitler make his last-ditch effort to stop the British and American advance?
On what city did the United States drop the second atomic bomb?
What was the site of the Roosevelt-Churchill conference in North Africa and what did they plan
there?
What marked the beginning of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944?
Does the text say the task for preparing for World War II was easier or harder than preparing for
World War I?
What percentage of the Japanese Americans put in concentration camps were US born?
What wartime supreme court case upheld the Japanese relocation?
What New Deal programs does your text list as being wiped out by the new conservative
Congress in 1942?
What does GI stand for?
What happened to children when women went to work during World War II?
What did the majority of women do during World War II according to your text?
What changes did labor unions experience during the war?
What did the Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act do?
What was the “Double V” slogan and what did it mean?
Explain/describe the internal migrations that took place during World War II.
What role did the mechanical cotton picker have on internal migration?
What were the “code talkers”?
Explain in detail the effect the war had on the homefront economy.
What cured the depression?
What naval battle proved to be a “pivotal” victory against the Japanese in the Pacific?
What happened on June 6, 1944?
Who was the American general who headed the attach that began in November 1942?
Why did FDR switch vice presidential running mates in the 1944 election?
What was the primary reason FDR was reelected in 1944?
How and when did Hitler die?
What and when was VE day?
What happened at the Potsdam Conference?
What was the Manhattan Project?
What and when was VJ day?
Who said, “Nothing succeeds like excess.”?
Did FDR and Churchill generally agree or disagree on Allied war plans?