Early War Events
This battle in May 1942 was the first major naval engagement where aircraft carriers fought each other without the ships ever directly engaging, marking a shift in naval warfare and a crucial check on Japanese expansion in the Pacific
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea?
This group of workers helped meet agricultural labor shortages during the war.
Who are the "braceros"?
This 1942-1943 battle was a significant defeat for Germany and a turning point on the Eastern Front.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
This 1943 conference among the Allies agreed on the invasion strategy for France and increased aid to the Soviets.
What is the Tehran Conference?
This event marked the formal conclusion of World War II in Europe in May 1945.
What is V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day)?
This 1941 attack led the U.S. directly into World War II.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This 1944 Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of Japanese American internment during the war.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This operation was the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
What is D-Day or Operation Overlord?
This declaration by the Allies in 1943 demanded the unconditional surrender of Axis powers.
What is the Casablanca Declaration?
These bombings in August 1945 led Japan to surrender.
What are the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This act, passed before the U.S. entered the war, allowed the U.S. to lend or lease arms to the Allies.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This wartime project developed the first atomic bombs.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This bloody 1945 battle in the Pacific required U.S. forces to capture an island for airfields close to Japan.
What is the Battle of Okinawa?
This U.S. policy towards Latin America aimed at improving relations and was emphasized during the war.
What is the Good Neighbor policy?
This was the project that developed the atomic bombs used on Japan.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This pivotal 1942 battle marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?
This was established to control inflation and ration consumer goods during the war.
What is the Office of Price Administration?
This battle was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
This agreement was crucial for deciding post-war management of Germany and was made in 1945.
What is the Potsdam Agreement?
This day marks the official end of World War II following Japan's surrender.
What is V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day)?
This was the consequence of Japan's rapid territorial expansion in Asia and the Pacific.
What is stretching their resources too thin or overextension?
She was a significant figure representing women who worked in manufacturing jobs during the war.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
This was the first major Allied effort to push German forces out of North Africa.
What is the Battle of El Alamein?
He was the U.S. President during most of World War II, leading much of the diplomatic efforts.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
On 24 October, the ratification of its founding document by the majority of its signatories, including the five permanent members of the Security Council, the ____________ officially came into being.
What is the United Nations?