The European Front
The June 6, 1944 invasion of Normandy.
What is D-Day.
The "stepping stone" strategy used to reach Japan.
What is Island Hopping.
The systematic murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis.
What is the Holocaust.
The status the US achieved as the world's leading power.
What is superpower.
This 1941 executive order, issued by FDR under pressure from A. Philip Randolph, prohibited racial discrimination in the national defense industry.
Executive Order 8802
The Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The 1942 naval battle known as the "turning point."
What is the Battle of Midway.
The political ideology the US was fighting against.
What is facism.
The decade-long economic crisis that WWII ended.
What is the Great Depression.
While the U.S. remained officially neutral in 1940, this policy allowed the President to transfer arms to "any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States."
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Why the Soviets wanted a "second front" opened.
To relieve pressure on the USSR.
The top-secret project that built the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project.
Domestic factors that limited US aid to Jewish refugees.
Anti-Semitism & immigration quotas
The international group created to keep global peace.
What is the United Nations.
This 1944 Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of Japanese internment, arguing that the need to protect against espionage outweighed individual rights during wartime.
Korematsu v. United States?
The 1945 meeting of the "Big Three" to plan post-war.
What is the Yalta Conference.
The two cities where atomic bombs were dropped.
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The 1945 conference demanding Japan’s surrender.
What is the Potsdam Conference.
The regions (like the West/South) where people moved for jobs.
What is the Sunbelt.
Launched by the Pittsburgh Courier in 1942, this initiative articulated the dual goals of African Americans during the war: a win over fascism abroad and a win over discrimination and segregation at home.
What is the Double V Campaign?
The Army Chief of Staff who organized the US victory.
Who is George Marshall.
Truman’s primary justification for using atomic weapons.
Saving American lives/avoiding invasion.
The type of "justification" the camps gave the Allied cause.
What is moral justification.
The "Four Freedoms" FDR said the US was fighting for.
Speech, Worship, Want, and Fear.
Often cited as a turning point for women in the workforce, this federal program saw the female percentage of the U.S. workforce rise to 37% by 1945
Who is Rosie the Riveter (or the "Women in War Work" campaign)?