Fifth Grade History And Geography III
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Unit 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was blamed for the Great Depression | Herbert Hoover |
| What did the veterans call themselves when they marched to the capital for their bonuses | Bonus Expeditionary Force |
| What fraction of people last their jobs during the Great Depression | 1/4 |
| What were the Great Plains called because the drought there | Dust Bowl |
| What happened to the bonus army camp at Washington | the army drove them out |
| Who was elected president in 1932 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| What were FDR's policies for the Great Depression | New DEAL |
| What did Herbert Hoover believe he shouldn't do with goverment money | give it to people and businesses |
| When was the first time the goverment took responsibility for business and work | New Deal, Great Depression |
| What was FDR's foreign policy | Good Neighbor Policy |
| What were the three goals of the New Deal | Relief, recovery, reform |
| What was the CCC, gave conversation jobs to young men | Civilian Conversation Corp |
| What was the time of the beginning New Deal when many laws were passed | Hundred Days |
| What did FDR do first as president | a bank holiday |
| What was the TVA, an Organization to get electricity from the Tennessee River | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| Congress refused to add 6 more people to this | Supreme Court |
| What ended the Depression | WWII |
| Who was the Dictator of Italy | Benito Mussolini |
| Who was the Dictator of Germany | Adolf Hitler |
| Who was the Dictator of Russia | Joseph Stalin |
| Who was the prime minister of Great Britain | Winston Churchill |
| What was the symbol of Nazi Germany | swastika |
| What was the Nazi's new way of fighting | blitzkrieg |
| When did WWII start | when Germany invaded Poland |
| What was the small piece of France left after June 1940 | Vichy France |
| When was Hitler appeased at the Conference in 1938 | when Britain and France gave them Czechoslovakia |
| What did Hitler believe the Germans were | a better race |
| Who did Hitler hate | Jews |
| Did the League of Nations stop Japan when they invaded Manchuria in 1931 or when Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935 | no |
| In June 1940 who was still fighting Germany | Britain |
| What was the alliance between Germany,Italy, and Japan | Berlin, Rome, Toyko Axis |
| How did Germany break a treaty with Stalin of the Soviet Union | invading the Soviet Union |
| Who was the only U.S. president elected four terms | FDR |
| What was FDR's plan to give the Allies they need for the war | Lend Lease |
| What were the peace goals of FDR and Winston Churchill | Atlantic Charter |
| What was the ship sunk at Pearl Harbor with the loss of 1.177 men | Arizona |
| How many Americans joined the army | 15 million |
| What was the "fighting" to produce goods in America was called which front | Home Front |
| What was the name of the battle to take control of the Atlantic Ocean | Batttle of the Atlantic |
| How did Americans grow food | planted victory gardens |
| What were groups of Nazi submarines called | wolf pack |
| Where were the only places America was attacked during WWII | Aleutian Islands, Pearl Harbor |
| How did the Allies win the Battle of the Atlantic | used convoy systems, sonar to track German subs, used ships and planes to destroy German subs |
| What was the attitude of most Americans after Pearl Harbor | united and willing to do whatever it took to win |
| What happened to Japenese people living on the west coast of America | put in inland internment camps |
| In Europe what did the Allies invade first | North Africa |
| What did the Allies first invade when the Americans joined the war | Italy |
| What was the turning of the war in Europe | the battle for the city Stalingrad in the Soviet Union |
| Who was the Allied commander on Operation Torch | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Who were the generals who led the invasion of Sicily | Bernard Montgomery, George Patton |
| Who was in charge of Britain's first victory | General Montgomery |
| Who was the leader of the Free French | Charles DeGaulle |
| Who was the German commander in North Africa | Erwin Rommel |
| What was Hitler's mistake | invading the Soviet Union without preparing for winter |
| What did Italy do when the Allies invaded Sicily | they overthrew Mussolini and tried to surrender |
| Who forced Italy to keep fighting | Germany |
| What was Morroco controlled by when it was invaded by the Allies | Vichy France |
| How long did it take for the Allies to capture Sicily | a month |
| Who was the communist dictator of the Soviet Union who wanted the Allies to invade Europe | Joseph Stalin |
| When did Italy surrender | May 1945 |
| What was the day when France was invaded by the Allies | D-Day |
| What were the code names for the American beaches at Normandy | Utah and Omaha |
| What was the name for Hitler's murder of millions of innocent people | Holocaust |
| When was V-E Day | May 7, 1945 |
| Where did the Germans expect the invasion of France | Calais |
| When was Paris liberated | August 1944 |
| Who was the American general who went so fast he ran out of gas | George Patton |
| When was the invasion of Normandy | June 6, 1944 |
| What did Hitler do to avoid being captured | commited suicide |
| Where was the place where Nazi leaders were tried for humanity | Nuzemburg, Germany |
| What was the army that captured Berlin | the Soviet Union |
| What was the beach that had the worst fighting at Normandy | Omaha |
| What was the battle were Hitler tried to stop the Allies | Battle of the Bulge |
| How many Jews were believed to be killed in Nazi Germany | 6,000,000 |
| What was the turning point in the war at the Pacific | Midway |
| What was unusual about the battle of the Coral Sea | the ships never saw each other |
| What was it called when American bombers hit Toyko in April of 1942 | Doolittle's Raid |
| Which carrier did the Americans lose at the Coral Sea | Lexington |
| Which carrier did the Americans lose at Midway | Yorktown |
| In the Phillipines where did the Americans retreat | the Bataan peninsula and the fortress island of Corridegor |
| What were the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway fought by | airplanes |
| What was it called when American prisoners were killed for collapsing while walking to prison camps | Bataan Death March |
| What did Japan cut off that supplied China's army | Burma Road |
| Who was commanded to leave before the American army surrendered but promised to return | General Douglas MacArthur |
| How many aircraft carriers did Japan lose at Midway | 4 |
| How did the Americans Know the Japanese were going to attack Midway | the Americans broke a Japanese code |
| What were the Japanese trying to invade when the battle of the Coral Sea took place | Port Moresby on the southern side of New Guinea |
| What was the U.S. strategy in the Pacific | island hopping |
| Who was the Allied commander on New Guinea | Douglas MacArthur |
| What did the Americans do to strongly defended islands | hop over them |
| What would most Japanese never do | surrender |
| What was the first island invaded by the U.S. in August of 1942 | Guadalcanal |
| What were the first three archipeligoes that America attacked | Gilbert, Marshall, and the Marianas |
| What battle was the battle when America heavily damaged the Japanese fleet | Philipine Sea |
| What battle was the Japanese Navy destroyed | Leyte Gulf |
| How many marines died taking Iwo Jima | 7,000 |
| What island did the Americans capture to use as a base to attack Japan | Okinawa |
| What was the Manhattan Project | a plan to build an atomic bomb |
| What was the U.S. and Germany trying to do | build an Atomic bomb |
| When was V-J day | September 2, 1945 |
| Where was the surrender ceremony | on the U.S.S. Missouri in Toyko Bay |
| Where was the first atomic bomb explosion | New Mexico desert, July 16, 1945 |
| What was the first city destroyed by an atomic bomb | Hiroshima |
| How did the U.N. start | delegates from 50 nations met in San Francisco |
| Who was elected president in 1945 | Harry S. Truman |
| Where is the U.N.'s main office | New York City |
| When did the U.N.'s charter come in to effect | October 24, 1945 |
| Who was the military governer of Japan | Douglas MacArthur |
