Causes of US Involvement
Propaganda
FDR's Executive Powers / Domestic Impact
European Theater
Pacific Theater
100
The Broken Radio 📻 - teams cannot communicate for one question—they must answer in complete silence, symbolizing a lost radio signal in battle.
The MAIN reason why the United States joined WWII.
Bombing of Pearl Harbor.
100
The Battle Fatigue 😵💫 - must answer in a monotone, exhausted voice, as if they have been fighting for days. If they don’t commit, they lose 50 points.
What was the purpose of this poster and who is this?
Women’s participation in the war effort, Rosie the Riveter
100
Wartime production led to shortages of consumer goods and high demand for essential materials which led to what practice?
Rationing
100
What was the purpose of D-Day?
To open up a Western Front
100
These are the two places where the US dropped the atomic bombs.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
200
After Axis Power success, FDR gave the navy and merchant ships authority to ____________________________.
Attack German U-Boats
200
What is the purpose of a war bond?
To help fund the war
200
The ______________ gave President Roosevelt the power to expand the government, use censorship, and limit personal liberties.
The War Powers Act
200
The Desertion Dilemma 🚷 - team must choose to either lose 150 points OR force another team to lose 75 points—a tough ethical decision just like in war.
What was the ACTUAL plan of D-Day called?
Operation Overlord
200
This was the turning point in the War in the Pacific.
Battle of Midway
300
Laws that made it illegal for companies to sell weapons or transport goods to any nation at war.
Neutrality Acts
300
What is the this poster about?
Rationing
300
The Kamikaze Betrayal 💀 - Your wager 100 points on another team’s next question. If that team gets it right, the first team loses 100 points. If they get it wrong, the first team gains 100 points.
The US government grew to its largest size ever and _________________________ directed factories to produce war supplies in order to out-produce the Axis powers.
The War Production Board
300
D-Day was the larges _____________________ attack in history.
Land and Sea / Amphibious
300
The Pacific war revealed a new kind of fighting by using ____________.
Aircraft Carriers
400
_____________________ allowed the US to send war supplies to Allied nations and transport war-related goods to Europe on armed ships and helped end the depression in America.
Lend-Lease Act
400
What is the meaning of the propaganda poster?
Victory at home and abroad for African Americans
400
In 1942, President Roosevelt issued ______________ which “relocated” 112,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps away from the Pacific coast
Executive Order 9066
400
This battle was the final battle of WW2 and was one of the bloodiest battles in history.
Battle of Berlin
400
FDR created a top-secret program called the _________________ and put Robert _____________ in charge of developing an atomic bomb. From 1942-1945, a number of secret labs across the country were developed to build the bomb
Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer
500
The Spy Defection 🕵️ - A team member must sit with another team for two rounds and help them—but they still return to their original team afterward.
The process where the Allied nations could buy American-made war goods but had to pay in cash and had to transport goods on their own ships.
Cash and Carry Policy
500
The Blackout Bomb 💣 - A team that lands on this power-up must skip their next turn—symbolizing cities going dark during air raids.
What is this poster talking about?
War production
500
Civil rights leader ______________ threatened to “March on Washington” to force FDR to help blacks
As a result, President Roosevelt offered _________ for black workers and created the __________________________.
A. Phillip Randolph, Equal Pay, Fair Employment Practice Commission
500
The Draft Notice ✉️ - The team must swap one of their players with a member from another team for the next two rounds.
This know was the formal German surrender on May 8, 1945.
V-E Day
500
The Nuclear Fallout ☢️ - ALL teams lose 50 points
The three islands that the US took back while battling Japan.
The Philippians, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa