Before Pearl Harbor
Although each governmental system had differences, Japan, Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union, in 1939, each had this type of system.
What is totalitarianism?
The image of this woman (actually her nickname) became the heroic symbol during the war of a female factory worker.
Who was Rosie the Riveter?
The federal government tried to reduce public usage of food and fuel during WWII though this method.
What was rationing?
Translated as ‘divine wind’ and referring to a tsunami that had once destroyed a Mongol fleet attempting to invade Japan, this was the term for suicide pilots near the end of the war.
What is kamikaze?
Name one of the first two cities where the U.S. dropped atomic bombs (and the only atomic bombs ever used not in testing)
What are either Hiroshima or Nagasaki?
The deliberate extermination of a specific group of people.
What is genocide?
The program used by the U.S government that brought Mexican workers into the United States to help increase food production by bypassing standard immigration rules.
What was the Bracero program?
In LA Mexican-American teenagers were targeted by white mobs in a series of attacks known as this.
What were the Zoot Suit Riots?
A massive air and sea attack on German-occupied France conducted primarily by the US, UK, and Canada.
What was D-Day?
This program was intended to allow veterans to attend college for free after the war (but mostly only worked if you were white.)
What was the GI Bill?
Was was Kristallnacht?
While women were not allowed by law to participate in combat roles, many joined the military serving in these positions.
What are nurses, secretaries, test and supply pilots (and other things you might come up with)
African American servicemen were encouraged to fight a double war against dictatorship overseas and discrimination at home known as this.
What was the Double V Campaign?
The plan to develop the atomic bomb was know by this code name.
What was the Manhattan Project?
The name of the ship carrying Jewish refugees who were denied entry to the U.S. and were forced to return to Europe (many ending up in extermination camps.)
What was the St. Louis?
To keep the United States out of future wars, Congress passed these series of Acts in 1935, 1937, and 1939.
What were the Neutrality Acts?
Strong anti-Japanese feelings after Pearl Harbor led Roosevelt to approve this action.
What was Order 9066 (Japanese Removal Act)?
This SCOTUS case ruled that Japanese incarceration was justified.
What was Korematsu?
This group was essential in keeping American messages encoded and undecipherable by the Japanese.
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
These were Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms."
100 points each if you don't get them all. Partial points can be stolen.
What are: Freedom from want
Freedom from fear
Freedom of Worship
Freedom of Speech/Expression?
A policy allowing the president to provide weapons to certain foreign countries (on loan).
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
Roosevelt signed an executive order outlawing discrimination in defense jobs as a response to a threatened March on Washington, led by this man.
Who was A. Philip Randolph?.
To assign resources to the armed forces and war industries as needed the government created this organization.
What was the War Industries Board?
The Bataan Death March, a war crime committed by the Imperial Japanese Army against US Soldiers, took place on this island nation.
What is the Philippines?
In 1941, when the U.S. joined the war, with the addition of the United States, there were only three unoccupied Allied powers: the U.S., Great Britain, and this nation.
What was the Soviet Union?