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AMH 2020 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE University Of Central Florida Question and answers verified to pass AMH 2020 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE Presidents form FDR to the Present - correct answer 1. Franklin D. Roosevelt 2. Harry S. Truman 3. Dwight D. Eisenhower 4. John F. Kennedy 6. Lyndon B. Jo...

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AMH 2020 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Presidents form FDR to the Present - correct answer ✔1. Franklin D.
Roosevelt
2. Harry S. Truman
3. Dwight D. Eisenhower
4. John F. Kennedy
6. Lyndon B. Johnson
7. Richard Nixon
8. Gerald Ford
9. Jimmy Carter
10. Ronald Reagan
11. George W. H. Bush
12. Bill Clinton
13. George W. Bush
14. Barrack Obama


Pearl Harbor - correct answer ✔December 7, 1941; Japanese attack on
America; reason for US entry into WWII


Doolittle Raid - correct answer ✔A mission designed as a direct retaliation to
Pearl Harbor that bombed the heart of Tokyo, changed Japanese strategies,
expanded the boarder


Chester W. Nimitz - correct answer ✔Leader in WW2 Admiral of the US
Pacific fleet became famous at battle of midway

,Battle of the Coral Sea - correct answer ✔World War II Pacific battle; United
States and Japanese forces fought to a standoff, U.S. lost the Luxington,


Battle of Midway - correct answer ✔nothing island North West of Hawaii,
U.S. Navy scout planes stationed, look out post, Japan plans to attack Midway
with carriers, Japan: lost 4 carriers, U.S.: lost 1 carrier, pilot;
U.S victory over Japanese off Midway Island that proved to be the turning
point of the war


Battle of Guadalcanal - correct answer ✔first major offensive by Allies; land,
air, and sea attacks; US defeats Japan; Japanese captured, 80 miles by 25
miles, 2,000 Japanese defenders, August 7, 1942: 31 hours to take it, 1,900
men, 6,300 Americans killed to hold and take the island, 24,000 Japanese
killed


Island Hopping - correct answer ✔not taking every island, only hitting
strategic islands


Admiral William Halsey - correct answer ✔Navy and Marines follow Central
Pacific line (Hawaii-Japan)


Gen. Douglas MacArthur - correct answer ✔commanded U.S. forces in the
Pacific region and attempted to defend the colony; recaptured Philippines


Iwo Jima - correct answer ✔defensive base for Japanese, 21,000 men,
volcanic island, attack: 1) pound Iwo Jima- 75 days, Feb 19, 1935 30,000
troops on Iwo Jima, 6,800 Marines and Navy medics killed, 2 congressional
medals 21,000 Japanese deaths

, Okinawa - correct answer ✔invasion of Japanese home islands launched
from, were 135,000 dead Japanese, 100,000 civilian deaths. 12,000 U.S.
deaths


Kamiaze - correct answer ✔suicide attacks, kill as many Americans as they
can


Harry S. Truman - correct answer ✔33rd President, WW1 veteran, never met
Roosevelt


Manhattan Project - correct answer ✔Code name for the U.S. effort during
World War II to produce the atomic bomb; built 3, tested one in Nevada, going
to drop it on Japan, Army wanted to drop it on a major Japanese city, Marines
wanted to drop it on the invasion sight


Enola Gray - correct answer ✔Aug 6, 1929 dropped bomb on Hiroshima,
100,000 people killed out of 340,000


Hiroshima - correct answer ✔Japanese city on which the United States
dropped an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945, only city not completely
destroyed


Nagasaki - correct answer ✔Second city to be destroyed by a nuclear
weapon on August 9, 1945; prompting Japan to surrender, 35,000 killed;
Japanese surrender on August 14, 1945


USS Missouri - correct answer ✔On September 2, 1945, the Japanese
emperor formally surrendered on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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