Terms
People
Allied Military
American Homefront
The End of the War
100
Systematic murder of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis.
What is the Holocaust?
100
Reporter who traveled overseas to report on the lives of soldiers.
Who is Ernie Pyle?
100
Name given to German attack that created a bulge in the Allied battle lines.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
100
Events where American citizens were asked to donate materials that could be used for war.
What are scrap drives?
100
Name given to May 8th, 1945, following German surrender.
What is V-E Day?
200
Information and ideas designed to gain support for the war.
What is propaganda?
200
Vowed to return to the Philippines after being forced to abandon his troops on the Bataan Paninsula
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
200
The primary purpose of this military operation was to drive German forces from France.
What is Operation Overlord?
200
Fear that Japanese Americans would engage in sabotage created these militarized zones in the West Coast.
What are Japanese Internment Camps?
200
Name given to day following Japanese surrender.
What is V-J Day?
300
The codename for the development of the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
300
Prime minister of Great Britain for the majority of World War II.
Who is Winston Churchill?
300
This battle marked the first time Allied forces stopped Japanese advance.
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea?
300
This group of people were asked to take factory jobs, plant victory gardens and buy war bonds during World War II.
What women?
300
After World War II, the United States worked to rebuild these two areas.
What are Europe and Japan?
400
Forced relocation and confinement of Japanese Americans during the war.
What is internment?
400
American general who commanded Operation Overlord.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
This battle changed the balance of power in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?
400
Foreign policy shared by a majority of the population during World War II.
What is isolationism?
400
City on which the first atomic bomb was dropped.
What is Hiroshima?
500
Marines from the Navajo nation who transmitted vital military information.
What are code talkers?
500
German general who fought in North Africa.
Who is Erwin Rommel?
500
Event in which American and Filipino soldiers were forced to march miles or be beaten or shot.
What is the Bataan Death March?
500
Foreign policy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
What is interventionism?
500
Meeting of Allied leaders that split Germany into four parts.
What is the Yalta Conference?
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