Lesson 1
The opposing sides in the war that consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan. The other side was Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and later America.
What were the Allied and Axis Powers?
Was created to oversee the conversion of factories to the war effort
What was the War Production Board?
When British and American troops stopped the Afrika Korps in North Africa
What was the Battle of El Alamein?
An American general in the Pacific who, after Japan invaded the Philippines, left the island but vowed to return
A last desperate attack on Allied forces that involved driving American forces back, making a huge bulge in Allied lines. The goal was to capture the city of Antwerp, Belgium.
What was the Battle of the Bulge?
Italian leader who gained complete control of Italy in 1922
Who was Benito Mussolini?
African American labor leader who began to organize a march to Washington, D.C in 1941
Who was A. Phillip Randolph?
American general who helped win the war in North Africa and Europe, planned the D-Day invasion, and became a U.S. president
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
When Japanese soldiers forced American and Filipino troops to march 63 miles across the Bataan Peninsula to prison camps
What was the Bataan Death March?
U.S. president who came into office after Franklin D. Roosevelt passed away. He faced the challenge of winning the war in the Pacific immediately after coming into office.
Who was Harry S. Truman?
Dictator of the Soviet Union
Who was Joseph Stalin?
African American pilots who trained at Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama. They flew many successful combat missions in North Africa and Italy.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Key battle on the eastern front when the Soviets defeated the Germans in Soviet Russia
What was the Battle of Stalingrad?
Battle when American and Japanese air carriers and fighter planes clashed over the sea
What was the Battle of the Coral Sea?
When Hitler and the Nazis tried to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe in the name of Aryan supremacy
What was the Holocaust?
German politician and WWI veteran, this person took advantage of public anger to gain power
The National Socialist Party
Who was Adolf Hitler?
Who were the Nazis?
During this 10-day period, white mobs attacked many Mexican Americans
What were the zoot-suit riots?
When American, Canadian, and British troops invaded the beaches in Normandy, France on June 6, 1944. Also known as "designated day".
What was D-Day?
strategy where Allied forces took only the most strategically important islands, instead of each Japanese-held island
What was island hopping?
A secret program that was trying to develop the atomic bomb
What was the Manhattan Project?
The prime minister of Britain
Who was Winston Churchill
forced relocation or imprisonment, in this case for Japanese Americans
internment
A key city in Soviet territory was that Germany was trying to secure
What was Stalingrad?
The largest naval battle in history
What was the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
a weapon that produces tremendous power by splitting atoms
What is an atomic bomb?