Causes
The Homefront
European Theater
Pacific Theater
Miscellaneous
100
Invaded by Hitler, starting WWII.
What is POLAND?
100
Famous propagandize tool used to encourage women to work in factories.
Who is ROSIE THE RIVETER?
100
The landing of the Allied invasion along the beaches of Normandy, France
What is D-DAY?
100
The secret research program to develop the atomic bomb.
What is THE MANHATTAN PROJECT?
100
Japan, Germany, and Italy
Who are the AXIS POWERS?
200
The only attack on US soil during WWII.
What is THE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR?
200
When the American government asked citizens to consume less in order to have more supplies dedicated to the war effort.
What is rationing?
200
Persecution and mass genocide of Jewish people
What is THE HOLOCAUST?
200
The cities that the United States dropped atomic bombs on
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
200
Soviet Union (Russia), USA, and Great Britain
Who are the ALLIED POWERS?
300
Fascist leader of Italy
What is BENITO MUSSOLINI?
300
The automobile industry switched to almost exclusively making tanks, jeeps, trucks, and airplanes
What is war mobilization?
300
General who led the D-Day invasion. Would later become President.
Who is (DWIGHT D.) EISENHOWER?
300
Capture specific islands to take power away from the elite Japanese pacific fleet.
What is ISLAND HOPPING?
300
The process of switching industries over to producing materials for the war instead of regular products.
What is CONVERSION?
400
Communist leader of Russia
Who is JOSEPH STALIN?
400
Threatened a march on Washington D.C. to end racial discrimination in the workplace
Who is A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH?
400
Post-war trials for German war criminals
What are the NUREMBERG TRIALS?
400
The most important naval battle (turning point) in the Pacific in WWII.
What is THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY?
400
Commander of the Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific.
Who is GEN. MACARTHUR?
500
Political system in which the government has total control over the people's lives (Examples: Fascism, Communism, Nazism)
What is TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT?
500
Japanese Americans who were too close to the Pacific Coast. Government afraid of spies.
What is JAPANESE INTERNMENT?
500
Final Chapter of the destruction of Hitler’s 3rd Reich.
What is THE FALL OF BERLIN?
500
President Truman told the Japanese they must surrender or face total destruction in these terms of surrender.
What is the POTSDAM DECLARATION?
500
Extreme nationalism coupled with extreme racism
What is NAZISM?
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