Important People
Invasions and Battles
The Home Front
Vocabulary
War in the Pacific
100
The president of the United States at the onset of World War II.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
100
The country Hitler invaded that caused Britain and France to declare war
What is Poland?
100
She is the symbol of women working in the factory
Who is Rosie the Riveter
100
a leader who rules with total authority, often in a cruel manner
What is a dictator?
100
He led American troops in the Pacific
Who is Douglass MacArthur?
200
The prime minister who gave inspirational speeches to the British during the Battle of Britain.
Who is Winston Churchill?
200
The area that Hitler tried to take over which led to the Munich Conference
What is the Sudetenland?
200
Americans engaged in this to conserve scarce items for the war effort.
What is rationing?
200
to give out scarce items on a limited basis
What is rationing?
200
This attack brought the US into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
300
He became President after Roosevelt died.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
300
This invasion involved landing on a beach in France and may be considered one of the most important events in Europe during World War II.
What is the Invasion of Normandy or D-Day
300
Sports cars, butter, and other extravagant items that people had to give up during World War II.
What are luxuries?
300
a political system, headed by a dictator, that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition
What is fascism?
300
Top secret program started by President Franklin Roosevelt to study atomic weapons
What is The Manhattan Project?
400
He led American troops in the Invasion of Normandy
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
The Japanese wanted to invade this country to create a powerful Southeast Asian empire.
What is China?
400
Dentention centers where Japanese Americans were confined to during WWII
What are internment camps?
400
A strategy used during WWII that called for attacking and capturing certain key islands and using these islands as bases to leapfrog to others.
What is island hopping?
400
Japanese suicide bomber
What is a kamikaze?
500
They used their native language to create an unbreakable code for the US during WWII.
Who are Navajo code talkers
500
This is the invasion of the Soviet Union
What is Operation Barbarossa?
500
This program allowed for the United States to provide war materials to the Allies, before the US entered the war
What is Lend Lease?
500
This type of bomb was dropped on Japan twice before the end of the war.
What is the atomic (atom) bomb?
500
Declaration given by Truman announced which urged Japan to surrender or be destroyed
What the Potsdam Declaration?
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