The Crisis in Europe and American Entry
What is isolationism?
This was used to convince Americans to support the war effort by creating posters, music, movies, etc.
What is propaganda?
Many of these Americans entered the workforce to build war materials while American men were at war.
Who are women?
Dropping two atomic bombs on this country ended World War II.
Who is Japan?
This world peace organization was established at the Yalta Conference at the end of World War II.
What is the United Nations?
What is Pearl Harbor?
Americans purchased these because the financial cost of World War II was expensive.
What are war bonds?
These African American fighter pilots distinguished themselves in combat during World War II.
This important battle in Europe opened up a second front against Germany in 1944.
What is D-Day?
The United States and its Allies gave Japan this declaration at the end of the war to surrender or face "utter destruction."
What is the Potsdam Declaration?
This U.S. president during World War II tried to convince Americans to move away from isolationism.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt/FDR?
U.S. entry into World War II ended this difficult economic time in America by putting many people back to work.
What is the Great Depression?
This U.S. Supreme Court decision gave the U.S. government the power to relocate Japanese-Americans during the war.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
The mass genocide of European Jews perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II.
What is the Holocaust?
The Allies agreed to divide Germany at this conference towards the end of World War II.
What is the Yalta Conference?
The law that allowed the U.S. to sell war materials to Britain if they paid cash for the weapons and came and got them.
What is "cash and carry"?
The nickname given to the United States for building most of the war materials to fight the Axis powers.
What is the "arsenal of democracy"?
This executive order prevented racial discrimination for jobs in defense industries.
What is Executive Order 8802?
The leader of all U.S. and Allied troops in Europe fighting Germany.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
The vice president who became president when FDR died towards the end of World War II.
Who is Harry Truman?
This law allowed the U.S. to loan war materials to the countries fighting Germany.
What is the lend-lease act?
The U.S. government convinced Americans to grow these so that more food could be sent to U.S. troops.
What are victory gardens?
This executive order forced the government to relocate Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast.
The main reason why U.S. President Harry Truman decided to drop the atomic bombs on Japan.
What is to save American soldiers' lives?
Dictator of the Soviet Union.
Who is Joseph Stalin?