The OPA set up a system establishing fixed amounts of food and supplies deemed essential for the military. Households could only buy scarce goods, meats, shoes, sugar, etc.
What is rationing
100
June 6th, 1944 - The first day of the invasion of the beaches of northern France that was code named Operation Overlord. This bloody massacre of American, British, and Canadian troops turned into a Allied victory at great costs.
What is D-Day.
100
On August 6, a B-29 bomber released an atomic bomb, code-named Little Boy, over this important Japanese military center and city.
What is Hiroshima
100
This landmark Supreme Court case ruled that the military necessity made internment constitutional due to national security.
What is Korematsu v. United States
100
"Divine Wind" - suicide-plane attack in which Japanese pilots crashed their bomb-laden planes into Allied ships.
What is Kamikaze.
200
The code name for the project where Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) began researching ways to develop a strategic new weapon in the form of a bomb that would hopefully end the war.
What is the Manhattan Project
200
This future American President launched Operation Torch, an invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower
200
One of President FDR's last conferences where he, Churchill, and Stalin met to discuss how to deal with Germany and end the war in the Pacific.
What is the Yalta Conference
200
This bill provided education and training for veterans, paid for by the federal government.
What is the GI Bill of Rights
200
Court trials in which defendants included Hitler's most trusted party officials, government ministers, military leaders, and powerful industrialists.
What are the Nuremberg Trials
300
After Pearl Harbor, the amount of volunteers for the armed services were not enough for an all-out global war, forcing the government to implement which recruiting system?
What is the Selective Service System (SSS) or Draft
300
This battle was the longest battle of the war, where Allied and Axis powers fought numerous sea battles to secure trading lines between the United States and Great Britain.
What is the Battle of the Atlantic.
300
This American General led the attacks in the Pacific Front. Although he had to retreat from the Philippines at the start of the war, he pledged to the many thousands of men who did not make it out, "I Shall Return..."
Who is General Douglass MacArthur.
300
Which interracial group founded in 1942 by James Farmer was established to work against segregation in Northern cities?
What is the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
300
The second of Japanese cities that was bombed during World War II be an atomic bomb code-named, Fat Man.
What is Nagasaki
400
This government agency was in charge of transitioning production from peacetime to wartime goods. They were responsible for rationing and allocating raw materials to key industries.
What is the War Production Board (WPB).
400
This battle consisted of Germans invading the Soviet Union's namesake city of their leader. The Soviets lost a total of 1,100,000 soldiers-more than all American deaths during the entire war.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad
400
This Pacific battle was the turning point for the Pacific War as it gave the Americans a morale boost after Pearl Harbor and showed Japan that we would fight back.
What is the Battle of Midway
400
Which organization that pushed the U.S. government to compensate Japanese Americans for property they had lost when they were interned during World War II?
What is the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
400
(MAUS) The process of counting living and dead prisoners at the start of each day. Failure to do so resulted in death.
What is an Appel
500
This bill established this group for women to serve in the military in non-combat positions in order to ensure all able bodied men were fighting on the various fronts of the war.
What is the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)
500
The German's last effort to break Allied lines where they drove tanks 60 miles into Allied territory, creating a bulge in the lines.This battle raged for a month, leading to a German retreat.
What is the Battle of the Bulge.
500
February 19th, 1945 - One of the fiercest battles of the Pacific where 70,000 marines converged on this tiny island close to the coast of Japan. An iconic photograph was captured atop Mount Suribachi.
What is the Battle of Iwo Jima
500
Which executive order forced the internment, or confinement, of Japanese Americans in the United States to prison camps?
What is Executive Order 9066
500
(MAUS): A barrack supervisor, often times was a prisoner themselves, that would maintain order within the camps. Vladek befriends his supervisor for assistance.