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100
It's where the "rules of war" were established.
What is Geneva?
100
Thanks to their language skills the Japanese never broke America's secret "code".
Who were the Navajo Native Americans?
100
The Zoot Suit riots in Los Angeles targeted mainly what group?
Who were people of Mexicans or Latinos?
100
The War Production Board and the Office of War Mobilization made sure that car factories were ___________ to make war machines?
What is retooled?
100
The overall strategy to win the war?
What was Defeat Hitler First?
200
With the Atlantic Charter, FDR & Churchill agreed to blueprint for a future United Nations and to not take territory away from Japan or Germany when the war was over. Where did the Atlantic Charter take place?
What is on a boat in the Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland?
200
They proved that African Americans were not cowards and extremely capable of fighting . . . especially while in the cockpit.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
200
FDR's Executive Order 9066 led to what?
The internment of over 100,000 innocent Japanese Americans (Internment camps)
200
Rosie's were women who worked in these
What are war factories?
200
Why did the American government censor the media
To keep American moral high?
300
Who were the big three?
Who were Churchill, Stalin and FDR?
300
American and Filipino soldiers withstood horrific conditions by the Japanese at this location.
What was Bata'an (the Bata'an Death March)
300
In which Supreme Court case did the court rule that Interment camps were constitutional since America was at war?
What is Korematsu v. United States?
300
Many women joined these to help win the war . . . they weren't civilians any longer.
What were the armed forces?
300
The Manhattan Project - what was that about?
What was the building of the atomic bomb?
400
In which meeting was it agreed that Germany would be divided into four occupation zones and Eastern Europe would have free elections, but be under the control of the Soviet military?
What was Yalta?
400
This group of American soldiers went to war against the Axis powers, even though America had more than likely imprisoned their parents?
Who were the Nisei Unit?
400
War factories were segregated until FDR issued what Executive Order?
What is 8802?
400
Americans bought billions of dollars of these to help pay for the war.
What are war bonds?
400
Who made the decision to drop the atom bomb to end the war in Japan?
Who was president Truman?
500
Why was Stalin so powerful at the Postdam Conference?
What is because FDR had died and Churchill had been replaced?
500
The Double V Campaign was African Americans trying to defeat the Axis overseas and . . . .
What is defeat discrimination or racism in America after the war was over?
500
If not for this lady, the Tuskegee Airmen may never have seen combat?
Who was first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt?
500
This federal program oversaw the rationing of American commodities like sugar, beef and gasoline.
What was the Office of Price Administration?
500
This commission report stated that America only got into World War I for the profits of big business, helping to increase America's call for isolationism as World War II began
What was the Nye Commission?