Key Terms
This is the German word for "Lightening War" and the use of military power in continuous waves to overwhelm the enemy.
What is "Blitzkrieg"
Germany invaded this country first.
What is Poland
This was the event that led the U.S. to officially declare war on the Axis Powers, most specifically Japan.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This minority group stepped up when soldiers left for war and joined the workforce.
Who are Women.
The agreement which bound Germany, Italy and Japan together in a mutual defense treaty making a military alliance.
What was the Tripartite Pact.
This is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is Propaganda.
This was the primary reason for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944.
What was to open a Western (Second) Front against the Germans thereby forcing them to fight a 2 front war on the European continent.
This battle resulted with the greatest loss of Marines in a single military battle.
What was the Battle of Iwo Jima.
This was a term for using less at home to make more available for the troops.
What is Rationing.
The number of presidential terms FDR was elected to.
What is 4.
This ultra-nationalist philosophy took hold in Germany, Italy and Spain.
What is Fascism
This battle was Hitler's last major offensive which result in a loss and the Nazis in full retreat back to the German border.
The battle that started the U.S. policy of Island Hopping and sunk most of the Japanese fleet.
What is the Battle of Midway.
This was the reasoning behind FDR's Executive Order 9066 that created internment camps for Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast.
What was for national security reasons or military necessity.
He was the lead scientist for the Manhattan Project.
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Walled city areas where "undesirables" were forced to live prior to being sent to concentration camps.
What were Ghettos.
At this conference, Stalin tried to negotiate for the East Poland in exchange for allowing free elections in Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe.
What was the Yalta Conference.
This name was given to the Native Americans who helped Marines transmit military messages in the Pacific campaign.
What was the Navajo Code Talkers.
These 2 government actions kept wartime inflation and food shortage partly in check.
What were price controls and rationing.
This American leader led the Japanese occupation after WWII for 7 years.
Who was General Douglas MacArthur.
Japanese word for "Divine Wind" or suicidal Japanese pilots.
What is "Kamikaze".
This was the important principle that came out of the Nuremberg War Trials.
What was you are responsible for your own actions even in times of war.
These were the nicknames of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively.
What were "Little Boy" and "Fat Man".
The justification FDR gave for the democratic U.S. to ally itself with the communist Soviet Union.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
These were built along the West Coast in reaction to the fear and paranoia of a possible Japanese attack.
What were lighthouses and other watch towers.