This was the meeting between Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler in which Chamberlain 'appeased' Hitler, giving him the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in exchange for no further expansion.
What is the Munich Conference?
100
This was the name for the agreement between Roosevelt and Churchill that unified the two nations and laid out plans for the postwar world following the defeat of the Nazis.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
100
This was one of the main goods that children (especially Boy Scouts) helped collect for the war effort.
What is scrap metal?
100
She became the fictional symbol of women in the workforce during the war.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
100
Battles on these two islands were key in convincing Truman to use the atomic bomb to end World War II.
What is Iwo Jima and Okinawa?
200
This nation saw millions of its citizens executed and imprisoned as its leader consolidated his rule by creating a communist police state.
What is the Soviet Union?
200
This was one of the actions taken by Roosevelt to prevent Japanese expansion in the Pacific prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is freeze Japanese assets in U.S. banks? Or, what is stop the sale of oil, gas, rubber, etc. to the Japanese?
200
This was legislation that allowed the U.S. to basically give any warring nation war materials if it was considered vital to the defense of the U.S.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
200
This was the Native-American tribe who used their own language as an unbreakable code for the U.S. during the war.
What is the Navajo?
200
This battle is considered the turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
What is Midway?
300
This battle was a series of air raids by the Germans against the British in a failed attempt to break the British will to fight and eventually invade the island.
What is the Battle of Britain?
300
In an effort to deter a nation from declaring war on the U.S., Roosevelt instituted this for the first time in U.S. history.
What is a peace time draft?
300
This is the term for preparation for war by both civilians and the military.
What is mobilization?
300
This government order unexpectedly led to the loss of property for one group of U.S. citizens during the war.
What is the internment of Japanese-Americans?
300
This battle is considered the turning point of the European Theatre of World War II.
What is Stalingrad?
400
This was the nation who tried to solve the depression by allowing the military to take power and conquering other nations to acquire resources.
What is Japan?
400
This was legislation that allowed the U.S. to sell war materials to any nation willing to pay cash and transport it themselves.
What is the Neutrality Act of 1939?
400
This was implemented by the U.S. government to encourage Mexican immigration during the war in an effort to fill much needed labor in the rail industry and in agriculture.
What is the Bracero program?
400
This was one example of racial tensions boiling over during the war as Navy servicemen attacked Mexican youth in Los Angeles over their clothing.
What is the Zoot Suit Riot?
400
This was the conference where the 'Big Three' decided to create the U.N. (with veto powers for the Security Council), the U.S.S.R. would enter the war in the Pacific, and Eastern Europe would be controlled by the U.S.S.R. (but would be allowed free elections - supposedly).
What is the Yalta Conference?
500
This was the port city that French and British forces retreated to (and evacuated from) as the German blitzkrieg overran Allied defenses in Belgium and France.
What is Dunkirk?
500
This was the group of isolationists in the U.S. who fought to keep the U.S. out of European affairs and war.
What is the America First Committee?
500
Besides the sale of War Bonds this was the key way the U.S. government paid for the war; it increased income taxes and expanded corporate taxes.
What is the Revenue Act of 1942?
500
This is a U.S. citizen, born in the U.S., but of Japanese descent.
What is Nisei?
500
This was the pivotal battle that halted the German advance through North Africa to capture both the Suez Canal and oil fields in the Middle East.