Road to War
This year marks the beginning of WWII in the European Theater.
What is 1939?
This event brought the United States into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This invasion marked the Allied return to Western Europe.
What is D-Day (Normandy invasion)?
This type of poster is used to influence public opinion during war.
What is propaganda?
These were camps where Japanese Americans were forced to live.
What are internment camps?
This country’s invasion of Poland officially started WWII in Europe.
What is Germany?
Japan expanded across this region between 1936–1942.
What is Pacific islands and Southeast Asia?
These two beaches were attacked by American troops.
What are Omaha and Utah?
Supplying Britain with materials was said to help America in this way.
What is keeping Germany from threatening the U.S.?
These states had the most internment camps.
What are California, Arizona, and Arkansas?
This policy allowed Hitler to expand without immediate consequences (ex: Munich Conference).
What is appeasement?
This strategy involved capturing key islands to move closer to Japan.
What is island hopping?
About this many Allied casualties occurred on D-Day.
What is about 2,500?
This president gave the “Day of Infamy” speech.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This was the government’s justification for internment.
What is national security?
This earlier event showed Japanese aggression before WWII fully began.
What is Japan invading Manchuria?
These types of attacks involved pilots crashing into enemy targets.
What are kamikaze attacks?
This was the goal of the D-Day invasion.
What is to liberate France / push back Germany?
Roosevelt gave this speech to convince Congress to do this.
What is declare war?
This group was most affected by Executive Order 9066.
Who are Japanese Americans?
Laws passed in this year tried to prevent the U.S. from entering future wars.
What is 1935?
These two battles showed how difficult and deadly fighting Japan would be.
What are Iwo Jima and Okinawa?
This type of operation describes the coordinated land, sea, and air attack.
What is a combined Allied invasion?
This executive order allowed the U.S. to relocate Japanese Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This term describes limiting freedoms during wartime for safety reasons.
What is civil liberties restriction?