This administration began to regulate the production and allocation of goods and raw materials for war.
What is the War Production Board?
100
The demands of World War II greatly pushed forward this major political cause, due to the need for additional human resources, both on and off the battlefield.
What is the Civil Rights movement?
100
This was the order of defeat of the 3 Axis Powers from earliest to latest.
What is Italy, Germany, and Japan?
100
Commanders in the Pacific Theater used this special fighting force to prevent the Japanese from breaking secret coded information.
Who are the Navajo Code Talkers?
100
This was the main reason why President Truman authorized the of newly developed atomic weapons against Japan.
What is President Truman feared the cost in U.S. causalities during a surface invasion of Japan?
200
The date of the Pearl Harbor attack.
What is December 7, 1941?
200
This is how the roles of both married and single women change in the years of 1941 to 1945
What is women, regardless of marital status, began to take jobs in previously male–dominated roles and industries?
200
This term referred to the German military strategy of using surprise to quickly crush opposition.
What is blitzkrieg?
200
Of the 4, this was the effect the use of atomic weapons against Japan to end WWII had on the United States and the world: 1) The United States became the world's first
atomic Super Power; 2) The Allied powers passed a moratorium against further development and use of atomic
weapons; 3) The League of nations ordered economic sanctions against the United States for the use of atomic weapons against Japan; 4) The United States used its atomic advantage to force countries in eastern and western Europe to heel.
What is 1) The United States became the world's first atomic Super Power?
200
The Supreme Court case Fred Korematsu v. United States of America centered on this issue.
What is the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII (Executive Order 9066)?
300
This law was designed, during WWII, to give arms and materials to any country whose defense was essential to the United States.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
300
This is how the World War II expansion of the domestic manufacturing and supply industries increased racial tensions in the northern United States.
What is the mass immigration of southern blacks caused occasional race riots in northern U.S. cities, which were predominately white?
300
This group of Japanese Americans from both Hawaii and the continental United States were assigned to this special fighting force that became the most highly decorated unit for its size in WWII for their work in Operation Torch and the rest of Europe.
What is the 442nd Regimental Combat Team?
300
These 2 battles were the first where the U.S. prevented Japan from capturing the islands there and helped prevent the possible capture of Hawaii.
What is the Battle of Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway?
300
Economic mobilization led the to an increase of newly available war industry factory jobs and had this effect on population movement in the United States.
What is U.S. citizens moved from the south to the northern and western United States to take newly available war industry factory jobs?
400
These were the Four Freedoms that President Roosevelt spoke of during his "Four Freedoms" speech.
What is freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear?
400
The purpose for the Federal government to ration during WWII.
What is provide more resources for the military?
400
This was the reason why the D-Day Invasion of Normandy was so important to the Allied strategy to bring the war in Europe to a close.
What is the Allies needed safe harbors to offload men and equipment in Europe and push the attack by recapturing France?
400
This was the reason why the Battle of Iwo Jima was important to the Allied airpower in the Pacific.
What is Iwo Jima had airstrips that the Allies needed in order to bomb the mainland of Japan?
400
This was the most significant and powerful weapon developed during WWII.
What is the atomic bomb?
500
This law was an attempt to help the allies by providing weapons loans without getting involved in the war.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
500
They were the first all–black combat air squadron in the Army Air Corps, were among the most decorated air units in
World War II, and they showed exceptional skill and bravery and were respected legends in their own time.
Who are the 99th Pursuit Squadron or Tuskegee Airmen?
500
This battle was the last great German offensive of the war and slowed the Allied invasion of Germany.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
500
After this battle, the United States gained naval superiority over Japan.
What is the Battle of Midway?
500
This federal policy enacted during World War II and justified as a wartime necessity for the protection of the United States, especially the west coast, as a whole?
What is the internment of Japanese Americans (Executive Order 9066)?