America and World War II - Page 4
Questions
- Why did General Douglas MacArthur struggle to hold the U.S. positions in the Philippines?
- What mistake did General Douglas MacArthur make in December 1941?
- About how many African Americans joined the military during World War II?
- What allowed the American Pacific Fleet to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
- Why did the 1939 cash-and-carry amendment to the Neutrality Acts favor Britain over Germany?
- What did the United States use to overcome the threat of German U-boats?
- What casualties did the Japanese suffer after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan?
- What is the practice of "Brinkmanship"?
- During WWII, the American armed forces were still segregated by race. Why do you think this issue became increasingly important during this era, leading to the desegregation of the Armed Forces a few years after the war?
- Who was the General for the U.S. during World War Two in the Pacific theater?
- What did Rosie the Riveter symbolize during World War II?
- How many years did American troops have to fight to defeat the Axis Power?
- During World War II, why did people to migrate to the South and West?
- Whose civil liberties did the U.S. government violate during WWII, and in what ways did they do this?
- In addition to Japanese Americans, what other groups were sometimes detained in internment camps in the U.S.?
- What role did Dwight D. Eisenhower play in the North Africa campaign?
- What does "shikata ga nai" mena? How does it affect the Japanese Americans response to the internment?
- What was the major and immediate outcome of the Japanese attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?
- Why did President Truman ask Congress to give financial aid to Greece and Turkey?
- How were the atomic bomb attacks on Japan during World War Il an example of "total war"?