Vocabulary
Policy of not getting involved with foreign nations.
What is isolationism?
Transfer and bandwagon are two common types of this.
What is propaganda?
Mexican Americans often wore this fashion, responsible for riots in LA during WWII.
What are Zoot suits?
The first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945 in this city.
What is Hiroshima?
This person was the dictator of Germany.
Who is Hitler?
Policy of trying to keep the peace by giving into demands
What is appeasement?
People at home were encouraged to do this, to leave enough food and supplies for the war
What is rationing?
These men were the first African-Americans allowed to fly airplanes in the Air Force.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
True or false: Men were drafted into WWII.
True
The name of the secret project by the US to build the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This was the executive order that FDR issued that forced the Japanese into internment.
What is executive order 9066?
This character was used in propaganda to convince women to work in factories.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
One could justify the atomic bomb by saying this.
What is "it would save more American lives" or "it would end the war faster?"
This political system is when 1 leader controls the culture and politics of an entire country.
What is facism?
The attempt to stop the spread of communism in the mid 1900s.
What is containment?
This Arizona base was the site of lots of airplane training for the Allies in WWII.
What is Luke Air Force base?
This Native tribe was crucial to the US winning World War II, helping create codes to communicate using their native language.
Who are the Navajo?
These trials prosecuted war criminals after the Holocaust, but many were never punished.
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
This event brought the United States into the World War II in 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Truman said the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
In order to support the war financially, people were encouraged to buy these.
What are war bonds?
This man was responsible for cracking a key code for the Allied Powers was tried for "homosexual acts" and forced to become chemically castrated. He died of poisoning.
Who is Alan Turing?
This many Jewish people were killed by the end of World War II.
What is 6 million?
The US and these three other countries made up the Allied Powers.
What are France, Britain, and the Soviet Union?