War in the Pacific
This event on December 7, 1941 brought the United States into WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
VE Day celebrates this event in 1945.
What is Germany’s surrender?
This policy allowed the U.S. to sell supplies to Britain and France as long as they paid upfront and used their own ships.
What is Cash and Carry?
He refused to comply with removal orders and became a symbol of civil rights resistance.
Who is Fred Korematsu?
She symbolized women working industrial jobs during WWII.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities in August 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Approximately how many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust?
What is six million?
FDR approved this deal that traded U.S. destroyers for British base rights.
What is the Destroyers-for-Bases deal?
This Supreme Court case ruled 6–3 that the incarceration of Japanese Americans was a “military necessity.”
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This group created an unbreakable code using their Native language during WWII.
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
The U.S. decision to use atomic bombs was followed by this nation’s declaration of war on Japan.
What is the Soviet Union?
Name one extermination camp used during the Holocaust.
What is Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, or Chelmno?
This program brought Mexican laborers to the U.S. to address farm labor shortages.
What is the Bracero Program?
This group of families had their history documented in the 40 Families Project in Palos Verdes.
Who were Japanese American farming families?
Approximately how many Japanese Americans were incarcerated during WWII?
What is 120,000?
This brutal 1945 battle was one of the bloodiest in the Pacific and brought U.S. forces within striking distance of mainland Japan.
What is the Battle of Okinawa?
This 1945 conference between the Allied leaders planned the defeat of Germany and postwar Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
The migration of people to new industrial centers from California to the South was known as this.
What is the Sunbelt?
The U.S. War Relocation Authority was responsible for running these facilities.
What were incarceration camps?
These riots in Los Angeles in 1943 involved clashes between U.S. servicemen and Mexican American youth wearing distinctive fashion.
What were the Zoot Suit Riots?
This battle, fought in June 1942, became the turning point in the Pacific because the U.S. destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers.
What is the Battle of Midway?
This event on November 9–10, 1938, saw the destruction of Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany and Austria.
What is Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass)?
This African American pilot group became one of the most respected fighter units in WWII.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
The landmark 1923 photograph connected to Japanese American history in Palos Verdes was displayed at this library.
What is the Malaga Cove Library?
This order authorized removing “any or all persons” from military zones, leading to Japanese American incarceration.
What is Executive Order 9066?