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The President of the United States during WW2, who suffered from Polio and pushed the policy of neutrality at the beginning stages of the war.
Who was FDR?
This invasion led to the outbreak of WW2.
What was the German invasion of Poland?
This surprise attack jolted the US into full participation with the Allies in WW2.
What was the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Served in segregated units and faced discrimination.
What were African American soldiers?
A ruler with total power over a country-- typically obtained control by force.
What was a dictator?
Also known as Il Duce, he was the Fascist leader of Italy during WW2.
Who was Mussolini?
This agreement gave Hitler the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia hoping that Hitler would not ask for any or take any other territory.
What was the Munich Pact?
Prime Minister of Japan during World War II. He gave his approval for the attack on Pearl Harbor and played a major role in Japan's military decisions until he resigned in 1944.
Who was Tojo?
Set up far inland, these camps housed over 100,000 people, many of them US citizens, during the war.
What were internment camps for people of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast?
During World War II, these were planted on the Home Front to help prevent a food shortage. Planting these helped make sure that there was enough food for our soldiers fighting around the world.
What was victory gardens?
This leader rose to power in party by criticizing the Treaty of Versailles as unfair and humiliating to the proud German nation.
Who was Hitler?
Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability.
What is appeasement?
What was Pearl Harbor was home to the US Pacific fleet?
This was a way for the government to raise money during the war and this was a way to see that scarce resources were used sparingly at home so that the "boys over there" had what they needed.
What were war bonds and rationing?
A few days after this attack, President FDR addressed Congress and said, "Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a day which will live in infamy..."
What is Pearl Harbor?
She was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II.
Who was Rosie the Riveter?
This was the name given to the offensive lightning war that Hitler unleashed at the beginning of the war.
What was blitzkrieg?
What was the Japanese invasion of Manchuria?
In 1935, Congress passed the first of a series of neutrality acts. However as the conflict in Europe continued to deteriorate, the laws were modified numerous times. Name two of those modifications.
What were cash and carry basis and the Lend-Lease Act?
This document was agreed to by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President FDR and it laid out the aims for the war and postwar world.
What was the Atlantic Charter?
Name the leaders and countries (need to have them match) of the three main Allied Powers and Axis Powers.
What were [Allies]: US-->FDR/Truman; UK-->Churchill; USSR-->Staliln;
[Axis] German-->Hitler; Italy-->Mussolini; Japan-->Tojo?
Russia thought this agreement was going to prevent it from being invaded by Germany?
What was the German-Russian Nonaggression Pact of 1939?
bomb dropped by an American bomber on Hiroshima and Nagasaki destroying both cities
In the late 1980s, President Reagan signed into law a bill that provided $20,000 to every Japanese American sent to a relocation camp
What is the Civil Liberties Act of 1988?
Slogan used by President FDR which came to specifically refer to the industry of the U.S., as the primary supplier of material for the Allied war effort.
What is "the Great Arsenal of Democracy"?