Beginnings
What was the Final Solution?
It was the plan to fix the problems in Germany with Jews, foreigners, gypsies, the mentially ill, and homosexuals.
December 7th, 1941
What date was Pearl Harbor Attacked?
Movement in the United States to avoid war in Europe and focus on problems at home.
What is isolationism?
What area of the United States were Japanese Americans forced to relocate from?
West Coast
Name the three major Allied powers.
England, USSR, U.S.
What country was invaded, which officially started WWII?
U.S. Strategy to skip over heavily fortified Japanese positions and by water move to weaker points.
What is island hopping?
The victory against fascism in the world and the victory against racial discrimination at home.
What is the Double V movement?
This top-secret project to develop the atomic bombs, located mostly in Los Alamos, New Mexico
What was the Manhattan Project?
Which three countries made up the Axis Powers
What is Germany, Japan, Italy
This country was invaded by Japan in the 1930s for its rich natural resources
What is China?
What city was the first city to have an atomic bomb dropped on it?
What is Hiroshima?
This phrase was used by FDR to describe how America would become a stockpile of weapons for Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China... anyone who would fight the Axis powers.
What is the Arsenal of Democracy?
These two individuals served as presidents of the United States during World War II.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman
On D-Day, the Allies launched a full-scale invasion on which part of the French coastline?
Normandy
The policy of Great Britain and France to allow Hitler to annex lands for the German people, and avoid a bigger conflict.
What was Appeasement?
Navajo Code Talkers
What were the series of trials that put Germans on trial for crimes against peace and crimes against humanity called?
Nuremberg Trials
She represented women, who in large numbers began working in war production
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
"Man of Steel"- the dictator who ruled the Soviet Union during World War II
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Mussolini was an example of a new type of political ideology. What was it called?
What is Facism
This country was isolationist until its attack in 1941.
What is the United States?
This case was brought to the Supreme court by Fred, a Japanese American who resisted the order to be removed from the West Coast and placed in internment camps. The Supreme Court said this was legal.
What is Korematsu v. U.S.?
This order forced Japanese Americans from their homes, give up their businesses, and most of their possessions. It also forced them into Internment Camps within the interior of the United States.
What was Executive Order 9066?
Led by American Elenor Roosevelt, the United Nations created this document after World War II.
What was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?