Jeopardy—Chapters 15 and 16Vocabulary People Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Miscellaneous

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The idea that one race is superior to others and that race determines a person’s character or

ability.

What is racism?

Meaning “air force”

What is luftwaffe?

Interfering in the affairs of another nation.

What is interventionism?

The total value of all goods and services produced in a nation in a given year.

What is GNP or Gross National Product?

A follower of a political philosophy that preached nationalism and racism.

What is fascist?

British leader who made a 1938 prediction that Great Britain would be drawn into the war with

Germany.

Who is Winston Churchill?

Planned the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

Who was Isoroku Yamamoto?

Aviator and famous speaker for US isolationism.

Who was Charles Lindbergh?

Led the Spanish army in a civil war that began in 1936.

Who was Francisco Franco?

British leader who agreed not to oppose Hitler’s occupation of the Sudetenland region

of Czechoslovakia.

Who was Neville Chamberland?

This was a logical target for Japanese expansion because it had an abundance of natural

resources.

What is Manchuria?

This is who Hitler blamed for Germany’s economic problems.

Who are the Jewish?

The first military goal of the Allies agreed on in early 1942.

What is defeat the Axis powers in Europe?

In 1941, President Roosevelt ordered the United States Navy to help the British track

German U-boats in order to…

What is protect British citizens traveling on the seas?

This is what the British gave the United States in return for 50 American destroyers.

What is the right to establish naval and air bases on British territory?

Contracts granted to arms manufacturers increased the population in this area

dramatically during WWII.

What is New England?

The group that urged African Americans to work through the federal government to end

discrimination.

What is the NAACP?

The group of people denied civil liberties by the Supreme Court in the 1940’s.

Who were the Japanese-Americans?

This area of the United States had the lowest population increase during WWII.

What is the Great Plains?

The reason why the United States had a large military force by December 1941.

What is Congress passed a peacetime draft law in 1940?

Describe island hopping.

Hoping to cut of Japanese strongholds and supplies, the US marines captured key islands by surrounding them….with the plan of building bases to attack the Philippines and eventually

Japan.

Explain how rationing during WWII worked.

A way of distributing limited good evenly. Ration coupons were needed to purchase certain goods (ex: meat and butter). The OPA set up local rationing

boards that set quotas for each family’s coupons. Families received coupons based on family size and needs. They

presented these coupons when buying items and merchants would give these

coupons to suppliers to replenish shelves.

What happened at Dunkirk?

When France surrendered, British forces retreated to this seacoast town, where a fleet of private and military vessels saved the soldiers by evacuating French and British troops

(338,000).

Why didn’t courts overrule the relocation camps on the basis of discrimination?

Hirabayashi vs. US—Because they believed in a time of war, residents that have ethnic ties with enemies may be a huge danger as compared with others of a different background.

What were the neutrality acts and what country issued them?

Prohibited the sale of American weapons to nations at war and tried to keep US citizens from traveling on ships that belonged to warring countries. Required countries at war to pay cash for non-

military trade goods. Ex: cotton or what. The US issued them.

Final Jeopardy

Trace the change in the American stand from nonintervention to declaration of war against

the Axis powers.

American criticism of Japanese aggression in China, the Neutrality Acts, isolationism/the America First organization, the establishment of the Selective

Service, the Lend-Lease Act, German u-boat attacks on American ships, the Atlantic Charter, the embargo on Japan and freezing Japanese assets in the US,

the attack on Pearl Harbor.