Key Terms
Home Front
War in Europe
War in the Pacific
Misc
100

mobilizes all the resources of the society to fight the war and support the war

Total War
100
Limiting the availabilityRat
Rations
100

code name for the Battle of Normandy. Allied forces launched a successful invasion on Germany-occupied Western Europe

Operation Overlord (D-Day)
100
The name given to the pilots who purposely flew their aircraft into American ships
Kamikaze Pilots
100
Name the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan
Little Boy

Fat Man

200

Authorized the President to give aid to any county whose defense was vital to U.S. security with the promise of returning the items

Lend-Lease Act
200

The name given for victory over Hitler’s racism abroad and victory over racism at home 

Double V
200
The name given to the day that war ended in Europe
V-E Day
200
The name of the project that created the atomic bomb
The Manhattan Project
200
The imprisonment of Japanese-Americans 
Japanese Internment
300

a government program that required males register for the draft

Selective Service and Training Act
300

Koremattsu v. the United States, the Supreme Court ruled that...

The relocation of Japanese-Americans was constitutional. 
300
Hitlers final attempt to push the Allies out of the European mainland
The Battle of the Bulge
300
Who was the president that ordered the dropping on the atomic bombs on Japan
President Truman
300
The bombing of Britain by German pilots
The Battle of Britain
400

Order given by FDR that stated:

“there shall be no discrimination in employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color or natural origin.”

Executive Order 8802
400
Office of War Information was responsible for creating...
propaganda 
400
Name of the meeting between the "Big Three" to discuss post World War II Europe
Yalta Conference
400
The event that finally drove the United States to join World War II
Pearl Harbor
400
Why did the United States government want bacon grease?
to help make bombs
500
Executive order that gave the military permission to intern Japanese-Americans

executive order 9066

500
The program that brought thousands of farmers from Mexico to help with the labor shortage
Bracero Program
500

If British and American troops opened a second front by attacking Germany from the west, it would take pressure off the 

Soviet Union
500
The name given to the resources that the United States limited supplying to Japan
Strategic Material
500

Congress passed this act, which permits nations to buy American armaments as long as they pay cash and carry the goods home in their own ships

Cash and Carry | Neutrality Act of 1939

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