Path to War
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Life on the Home Front
Key Leaders & Figures
The Aftermath & Legacy
100
THIS EVENT caused the US to enter World War 2.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
100
The top-secret, U.S.-led effort to develop the first atomic bomb was known as THIS project.
What is the Manhattan Project?
100
THIS is the name used for various media like posters, films, radio, and pamphlets the US and many other countries used to rally public support for the war effort, encourage participation, and demonize the enemy.
What is propaganda?
100
HE was the U.S. president for most of WWII.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
100
THIS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION was created after WWII to prevent future conflicts.
What is the United Nations?
200
One of the major effects of the US increasing industrial production during WWII was that it greatly reduced unemployment caused by THIS EVENT of the 1930s.
What was the Great Depression?
200
In August 1945, President Truman made the decision to drop atomic bombs on THESE TWO CITIES to force Japan's immediate surrender, potentially saving American lives and ending the war quickly.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
200
During World War II, approximately 120,000 people of Japanese descent, including about 66,000 U.S. citizens, were forcibly relocated and incarcerated INTO THESE following Executive Order 9066.
What were Internment Camps?
200
THIS PRESIDENT made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan.
Who was Harry Truman?
200
THESE TWO NATIONS emerged as superpowers after WWII.
What are the United States and the Soviet Union?
300
THIS PIECE OF LEGISLATION passed in 1941, authorized the United States to provide war materials to Allied nations, with the understanding that they would be returned or paid for later, effectively making the US the "arsenal of democracy" during WWII.
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
300
THIS was the largest amphibious (seaborne) invasion in world history.
What was D-Day?
Other acceptable answers:
Allied Invasion of Normandy and Operation Overlord
300
THIS cultural icon representing women working in wartime industries was known as...
Who was "Rosie the Riveter"?
300
SHE helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
The end of World War 2 marks the beginning of THIS CONFLICT.
What is the Cold War?
400
During the build-up to World War II, the United States adopted THIS POLICY allowing nations at war to buy goods from the US, but only if they paid for them immediately and arranged their own transportation, essentially supporting allies without direct involvement.
What is the Cash and Carry Policy?
Other acceptable answers:
Neutrality Acts of the 1930s (1937-everything excluding military arms & 1939-included military arms)
400
THESE were the names of the two atomic bombs used in World War II against Japan.
What are "Little Boy" and "Fat Man"?
400
THESE were ways people supported the war effort from home during WWII - Name TWO.
Answers could include, but are not limited to: rationing, planting victory gardens, buying war bonds, participating in scrap drives, recycling, volunteering, sending letters and care packages, women and other minorities entering the workforce, etc.
400
HE was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and later became a U.S. president.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
THIS POST-WAR DOCUMENT promotes global human rights, influenced by the Holocaust and WWII atrocities, to this day!
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)?
500
Eleven months before Pearl Harbor, FDR's 1941 State of the Union urged the U.S. to defend democracy and listed THESE FOUR UNIVERSAL FREEDOMS.
1) freedom of speech 2) freedom of worship 3) freedom from want, and 4) freedom from fear
500
THIS STRATEGY was used by the US and the Allies to defeat the Japanese Empire in the Pacific, by bypassing heavily fortified enemy positions and seizing strategically important, less-defended islands to gain a foothold closer to Japan.
What was Island Hopping?
Other acceptable answers:
Leapfrogging, Pacific Strategy
500
President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948, which mandated the desegregation of THIS.
What is the military?
500
THESE were the leaders of the 3 AXIS powers during World War II.
Who were Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Emperor [Michinomiya] Hirohito and General [Hideki] Tojo (Japan)?
500
THIS IS THE NAME for the economic plan the U.S. implemented to help rebuild Europe after WWII and prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?