People
Battles
Causes or Effects of War
Technology
Misc.
100
Dictator of Germany. Wanted to create a master race.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
December 7; Japanese planes bombed a naval base in Hawaii; this lead to the U.S. declaring war.
What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
100
Men are called upon to serve in the military.
What is the draft?
100
Famous scientist that escaped Hitler by coming to the U.S.
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
Hatred towards Jews.
What is anti-Semitism?
200
Military leader of Japan. Believe the U.S. was standing in the way of Japan's goals.
Who is Hideki Tojo?
200
Largest sea invasion in world history.
What is Normandy, France?
200
Factories, baseball leagues, nurses, pilots, mechanics, radio operators.
What are new jobs for women during WWII?
200
This produced massive explosive energy by splitting atoms.
What are atomic bombs?
200
Places where Jews were taken and murdered or to work until they died of starvation and disease.
What is a concentration camp?
300
This became a symbol of women who kept American factories running during the war.
Who is "Rosie the Riveter"?
300
Turning point in war against Japan. American navy pilots destroyed many Japanese ships and planes.
What is the Battle of Midway?
300
When the government limits the amount of food a family can buy.
What is rationing?
300
Code given to the effort to build atomic bombs.
What is the Manhattan Project?
300
The name given to the murder of six million Jews during WWII.
What is Holocaust?
400
Promised to attack and conquer countries; dictator of Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
400
December 1944; Germany attacked but Allied forces won.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
400
Small vegetable gardens that are planted in backyards or rooftops.
What are "Victory Gardens"?
400
Location of a secret lab in the U.S. where the atomic bomb was worked on.
What is Los Alamos, New Mexico?
400
400,000
What is the number of American soldiers' deaths.
500
The group of African American men that trained to be fighter pilots.
Who is Tuskegee Airmen?
500
Turning point in war against Germany. Soviet armies began forcing the Germans to retreat.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
500
Executive Order #9066- gave the military permission to remove anyone from the West Coast who that was seen as a threat. They were taken to these.
What are internment camps?
500
Used to determine the location of objects such as airplanes and ships.
What is radar?
500
The Axis Powers.
What is Germany, Italy, and Japan?
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