America in WWII
This scientific venture aimed to invent the atomic bomb
What is Manhattan Project?
This battle, named after a Russian city, was a massive defeat for Hitler. He was not glad.
What is Stalingrad?
This vice-president was made president and had to decide whether to drop the atomic bomb.
Who is Truman?
This law made it so that veterans could go to college, funded by the federal government.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
First city hit by an Atomic Bomb.
What is Hiroshima?
This official name for the draft boomed after Pearl Harbor was attacked.
What is selective service?
What is D-Day?
Japanese pilots who killed themselves by flying their planes at Allied ships.
Name for the camps that Japanese Americans were kept in during the war.
What is internment?
Battle in the Pacific in which America had its first win. Sounds like an arcade was involved.
What is Battle of Midway?
This civil rights advocate successfully pressured FDR into signing an executive order ensuring that African Americans could work in war industries.
Who is Philip Randolph?
This American general who would later become US President helped America win its North African campaign.
Who is Dwight D Eisenhower?
This American general had to flee the Phillipines after the Battle of Bataan but swore to return.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
CORE stands for this:
VE Day stands for this. (hint: war wasn't over in Japan yet)
What is Victory in Europe Day?
This three-letter acronym stands for the agency that froze prices during the war to control inflation.
What is the OPA?
This battle was named for the shape of the battlefield after German tanks pushed through Allied defenses.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
This Japanese island of hardened lava had the highest death toll in the Pacific during WWII.
What is Iwo Jima?
This group pushed for reparations for Japanese Americans who were wronged.
What is the JACL?
This Battle happened in an ocean, and was between American ships and German u-boats.
What is Battle of the Atlantic?
This name for the army division for women could have been alternatively called "Female's Supplementary Military Group"
What is WAAC?
This general freed France from German occupation.
Who is Patton?
Code name for the second Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
What is Fat Man?
Name for riots against Mexican Americans in Los Angeles.
What are zoot-suit riots?
These trials determined the fate of Hitler's men and those who operated the death camps.
What is Nuremberg?