Perez's World War II Review

Vocab

100

German for "lightning war"

Blitzkrieg

200

An ideology defined by extreme nationalism, racial supremacy, and anti-democratic ideals 

Fascism

300

Allied efforts to prevent another world war by allowing fascists to annex small territories

Appeasement

400

This method is how America fought in the Pacific, quickly attacking and advancing island to island

Island hopping

500

Allowed countries such as Britain to get U.S. arms via credit and even borrow U.S. war supplies 

Lend-Lease Act

Homefront

100

This group of people filled up the spots of men who went to fight in workplaces such as factories

Women

200

Providing Americans with a fixed amount of scarce goods each month

Rationing 

300

Lending the government money by buying these

War bonds

400

Americans were allowed to produce and consume their own crops

Victory Gardens

500

Japanese-Americans were relocated to these without due process of law (double points if you can name the law itself!)

Interment camps (Executive Order 9066)

European Theater

100

The Nazis were responsible for the systematic murder of millions of innocent civilians

Holocaust

200

World War II began in Europe with the invasion of this country

Poland

300

Another name for the Invasion of Normandy, American troops landed in northwest France to open up another front in Europe 

D-Day

400

The first Black combat pilots who escorted bombers in Italy 

Tuskegee Airmen

500

This person led American forces in Europe and would on become President

Dwight Eisenhower

Pacific Theater

100

These two cities were destroyed by the atomic bomb

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

200

Soldiers who used their native language to send secret, encrypted messages across the battlefield

Navajo Code Talkers

300

This effort led to the creation of the atomic bomb

Manhattan Project

400

Allied POWs were forced to march sixty miles in blazing heat in the Philippines to a prison camp

Bataan Death March

500

This battle changed the tide of the Pacific Theater in favor of the U.S.

Battle of Midway

Misc.

100

This event causes the U.S. to join World War II

Attack on Pearl Harbor

200

This person was President during most of World War II

Franklin D. Roosevelt

300

This program employed Mexican farmworkers to work in the U.S.

Braceros

400

This person was President during the last stage of WWII

Harry Truman 

500

This conference concluded with the split of Germany into occupation zones and the creation of the United Nations

Yalta Conference