Intro to WW 2
WW 2 battles and events
US Home front WW2
Post War America
Expanding Cold War
100
This world wide event lead to Hitler coming to power.
What is the Great Depression?
100
Prisoners of War were marched this many miles on the Bataan Death March.
What is 65 miles?
100
This city experience the worst racial violence due to wartime migration.
What is Detroit Michigan?
100
The act of downsizing the military following World War 2 in America.
What is demobilizing?
100
This President made progressing in civil rights by desegregating the military following World War 2.
Who is President Truman?
200
This policy had no effect on German aggression prior to the offical start of World War 2.
What is appeasement policy?
200
This battle in which the Japanese Navy lost four aircraft carriers became the turning point of the Pacific War.
What is Battle of Midway?
200
This policy had US citizens limited to the amount of goods they can buy during World War 2.
What is rationing?
200
This term is used to describe extreme reckless charges, was made famous after Joseph McCarthy.
What is McCarthyism?
200
Korea was this type of war where specific goals where achieved rather than the total defeat of Communist forces.
What is limited war?
300
This military tactic is described as Lighting War
What is blitzkrieg?
300
American forces after this needed better training in both their officers and desert warfare. Name this battle
What is Battle of Kasserine Pass?
300
This group of African Americans formed this famed squadron.
Who are the Tuskegee Airman?
300
The habit of buy as much as one can became popular due to post war America's economic boom.
What is consumerism?
300
This couple was tried, convicted, and executed as spies for passing along nuclear secrets to the Soviets.
Who is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
400
This German citizen rose to power and found the Third Reich.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
400
This strategy used in the Pacific as in capturing key island to advance forward was cruical in the defeat of Japan during the War.
What is Island Hopping?
400
This organization helped Eastern European Jews during and after World War 2.
What is the War Refugee Board?
400
rapid suburban growth made these necassary for the commute to work
What is Interstate Highways?
400
this policy of having so many nuclear weapons that both sides would be totally destroyed in an all out war was made famous by the US and the Soviets.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
500
This suprise attack on this US naval base in the Pacific caused America to abandon its neutrality position and declare war one day later.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
500
This battle stopped the German Army from being on the offensive on the Eastern front for the rest of the War?
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
500
Women made up this key group to the US army during World War 2.
What is the WAC's?
500
This Wisconsin Senator announced the State Department was infested with Communist.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
500
This foreign policy helped Western Europe rebuild following World War 2, and ward off the expansion of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
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