Key People
U.S. president during most of World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
System limiting how much of certain goods civilians could buy.
What is rationing?
Turning point battle in the Pacific where the U.S. defeated Japan’s navy.
What is the Battle of Midway?
Policy used by European countries to avoid conflict with Hitler by giving in to some demands.
What is appeasement?
Date Japan attacked the U.S. naval base in Hawaii.
What is December 7, 1941?
U.S. president who authorized the use of the atomic bomb.
Who is Harry Truman?
Government program that paid companies their production cost plus a profit to make war materials.
What are Cost-Plus Contracts?
U.S. strategy of capturing key islands in the Pacific instead of attacking every island.
What is island hopping?
Laws passed in the 1930s to keep the United States out of foreign wars.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
65-mile forced march of American and Filipino soldiers in the Philippines.
What is the Bataan Death March?
Leader of Nazi Germany during WWII.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
Symbol representing women working in factories during WWII.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The beach during the D-Day invasion with the heaviest American casualties.
What is Omaha Beach?
U.S. economic action that blocked Japan from buying strategic materials like oil.
What is an embargo?
Campaign encouraging African Americans to fight racism abroad and at home.
What is the Double V Campaign?
Prime Minister of Great Britain during much of WWII.
Who is Winston Churchill?
Secret U.S. project to build the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
Japanese pilots who crashed their planes into enemy ships.
What are kamikaze attacks?
Congressional investigation that looked into whether weapons manufacturers pushed the U.S. into WWI.
What was the Nye Committee?
African American fighter pilots who trained in Alabama and served with distinction in World War II.
What is the Tuskegee Airmen?
Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Order that forced Japanese Americans into internment camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?
Island battles important because they gave the U.S. bases to bomb Japan.
What are Iwo Jima and Okinawa?
The four major causes that led to the outbreak of WWII in 1939.
What is HALT
The United States kept military communications secret in the Pacific by using
Who are the Navajo Code Talkers?