Vocab
Important People
Important Invasions/ Battles
Axis and Allies
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100
A way to raise money for the war effort.
What is an E bond?
100
Roosevelt's V.P.
Who is Truman?
100
When the U.S decoded Japenese messages to stop the planned attack on ______
What is New Guinea?
100
Axis power leader and Hitler's home.
What is Germany?
100
controlled raw materials and supplies
What is the War Production Board?
200
edges
What is Periphery?
200
a symbol for women's employment campaign
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
200
American military plannes decided to invade _____ so B-29's could be refueled
What is Iwo Jima?
200
Allied power that had just come out of a depression.
What is the U.S.?
200
government agency that loaned money to factories for conversion costs
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
300
denied voting rights
What is disenfranchised?
300
commander in North Africa
Who is Patton?
300
American military planners chose to invade ____ in order to stockpile supplies.
What is Okinawa?
300
Axis power that is an island in the Pacific and suffered from the U.S.'s atomic bombs.
What is Japan?
300
peace time draft
What is the Selective Service Act?
400
South and Southwest regions
What is the Sunbelt?
400
commander in the Philippines
Who is MacArthur?
400
The largest naval battle in history. And first time kamikaze pilots were used.
What is Leyte Gulf?
400
The largest Communist country that was an Allied power during World War II.
What is the Soviet Union?
400
code name for the atomic bomb project
What is the Manhattan Project?
500
suicide pilot
What is Kamikaze?
500
commander in the Pacific
Who is Nimitz?
500
After initial defeat and the result of Bataan Death March, MacArthur's troops were later ordered to retake ______
What is the Philippines?
500
Axis power that was home to Mussolini.
What is Italy?
500
code name for invasion of France
What is Operation Overload?
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