The Basics
The terms of this treaty that ended WWI greatly angered the German people, setting the stage for another world war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
This term refers to Japanese immigrants in the United States, prevented by law from becoming American citizens.
What is Issei?
Begun by an eloquent Letter to the Editor to the black newspaper The Pittsburgh Courier, this campaign called for victory over fascism abroad and racism at home.
What is the Double V campaign?
The name of the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
What is the "Little Boy?"
These three countries made up the Axis Powers
What is Germany, Italy, and Japan?
This terms captures the sentiment of Americans who wanted to stay out of European conflicts.
What is isolationism?
This term refers to the children of Japanese immigrant parents; they were citizens of the United States because of the Birthright Citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.
Who are Nisei?
This song - first recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday - is a harrowing description of a corpse hanging from a poplar tree.
What is "Strange Fruit?"
The name of the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
What is "Fat Man?"
This term means to give into an aggressor's demands to try to pacify or placate them.
What is appeasement?
These acts of Congress in the 1930s made it illegal to sell arms or issue loans to countries that had not paid their WWI debts or were currently at war (including civil war).
What are the Neutrality Acts?
The so-called "Loyalty Questionnaire" was regarded as a no-win situation for those who completed it, in no small part because of the indignity of being asked to swear no previous loyalty to this person.
Who is the Japanese Emperor?
This labor union activist threatened to hold a March on Washington in 1941 to demand the desegregation of the U.S.'s defense industries.
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
This is the name of the Japanese city that was spared the second bomb because the wind had blown a thick cloud of smoke from an earlier bombing raid.
What is Kokura?
Britain and France declared war on Germany after the invasion of this country on September 1, 1939.
What is Poland?
In March of 1941, Congress passed this act to allow the U.S. to lend money, munitions, and supplies to the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This internment camp was known as the "harder" camp for the Japanese Americans deemed more "difficult" or "suspicious." Actor and activist George Takei's family was relocated there.
What was Tule Lake?
The nickname for the highly decorated African-American fighter and bomber pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
The name of bombing survivors.
What is the Hibakusha?
This term refers to the systematic and technological attempt to exterminate all Jews from Europe - more than 6 million people were killed.
What is the Holocaust?
This is the day that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
What is December 7, 1941?
This Japanese soldier managed to take out a German machine gun nest after his right arm - containing an armed grenade - was nearly blown off his body.
Who is Daniel Inouye?
This is the name of the black female commander of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.
Who is Charity Adams?
Name the pilot and the B-29 bomber of Hiroshima (hint: it was named after his mother).
Who is Paul Tibbets and the Enola Gay?