V For Vocab
The Allied invasion of France.
What is D-Day?
Systematic murder of European Jews.
What is the Holocaust?
He succeeded FDR as president.
Who is Harry Truman?
American women working in factories.
Who were "Rosies"?
The date of the Pearl Harbor attack.
What is December 7, 1941?
African Americans want to defeat Nazism & segregation.
What is the Double V campaign?
Top secret plan to build an atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The Native Americans who served as radio men.
Who are the Code-Talkers?
Leader of fascist Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
Turning point battle in North Africa.
What is El-Alamein?
Japanese suicide attacks.
What is kamikaze?
FDR's public support for human rights and England's fight against Nazism.
What is the Four Freedoms speech?
British prime minister who urged England to fight on and never give up.
Who is Winston Churchill?
One of the nicknames for American women who enlisted in the armed forces as pilots, nurses, mechanics, clerks, radio operators, etc.
What are the WACs, WAVES & WASPS?
Turning point battle that saved Australia from invasion.
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea?
The U.S. recruited thousands of Mexicans to work in war jobs.
What is the Bracero program?
Native-born Japanese Americans
Who are Nisei?
1 of the 2 primary leaders of Japan.
Who are Emperor Hirohito & Prime Minister Hideki Tojo?
Soviet leader during World War II.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The date of the Allied invasion of France, aka D-Day.
What is June 6, 1944?
Attacking strategically important areas, while skipping others to move closer to Japan.
What is island hopping?
FDR authorized aid to any nation whose defense was vital to American security.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Head of the atomic bomb research project in New Mexico.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer or General Leslie Groves?
What is Mein Kampf? (My Struggle)
The date World War II began. Month/day/year.
What is September 1, 1939?