Vocabulary
Causes
Battles
Post-War World
America on the Homefront
100
These nations were known as the Allied Powers.
Who are the U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union?
100
This term means to let another country have its way in order to avoid a conflict.
What is appeasement?
100
This battle caused irreparable damage to the Japanese navy.
What is the Battle of Midway?
100
This nation was established by the United Nations (UN) to give Jews a homeland to provide Jews protection from religious persecution.
What is Israel?
100
This group of people were placed in internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor because Americans did not trust their loyalty to the United States.
Who are Japanese Americans?
200
These nations were known as the Axis Powers.
Who are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
200
These three countries acted aggressively by taking over land in other countries in the 1930s and 1940s.
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
200
This is the name of the first day of the Battle of Normandy, when allied troops invaded Europe.
What is D-Day?
200
This council was established to deal with the prosecution of the major war criminals of World War II.
What is the International Military Tribunal?
200
This character became a symbol for the role women played in the work force during World War II.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
300
This term is used to describe the separation of races and describes how African Americans soldiers were treated during World War II.
What is segregation?
300
Causes of World War I include
What are the economic depression, the Treaty of Versailles, and the rise of authoritarian leaders?
300
After this watershed battle, Germany retreated on the eastern front in Europe for the remainder of the war.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
300
This plan provided European countries nearly $13 billion to help them rebuild after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
To make sure that the U.S. was able to supply the allies, this economic practice was used during the war.
What is rationing?
400
This term is used to describe the persecution and murder of approximately 6 million jews during World War II by the German government.
What is the Holocaust?
400
Great Britain and France declared war on Germany after Germany invaded this nation.
What is Poland?
400
This watershed battle began to push Germany back on the western front.
What is the Battle of Normandy?
400
Allied leaders created a plan to defeat Japan, a plan to reorganize Europe, and determined Germany's war reparations at this conference.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
400
This group of people became important during the war as "code talkers."
Who are Native Americans?
500
This term describes a government where all decisions are made by the government, and the government is usually led by one powerful leader. The Soviet Union had this type of government, causing tension with the Allies at the end of the war.
What is communism?
500
This document ended World War I and led to World War II by angering the German people because it required Germany to accept full responsibility for the war, pay war damages, and give some its territory to France.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
500
Japan's attack on this U.S. naval base caused the U.S. to enter the war.
What is Pearl Harbor?
500
The United States and Great Britain began to become more distrustful of this ally as the war came to end because of their different styles of government.
What is the Soviet Union?
500
Despite segregation between African American and white soldiers, these were the first black American pilots.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
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