Timeline
This event started WWII.
What is the Invasion of Poland?
The government project to research and develop nuclear weapons.
What is the Manhattan project?
A person who is not on active duty with a military.
What is a civilian?
An extremely powerful bomb that produces an explosion by splitting atoms.
What is an Atomic Bomb?
This country suffered the most casualties.
What is the Soviet Union?
This caused the United States to join WWII.
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
The two Japanese cities bombed by the U.S. in 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Information used to influence a point of view.
What is propaganda?
An area populated by individuals from the same cultural/ethnic group.
What is a Ghetto?
The 1st Black Pilots in the U.S. Military
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
The reason Japan surrendered in 1945.
What is Atomic Bombs were dropped on them?
The names of the nuclear weapon dropped by the U.S. Air Force.
What is "Little Boy" and "Fat Man"?
A form of Propaganda
What are posters, movies, songs, cartoons, comic books, etc.?
A military tactic that combined swift, massive and highly coordinated attacks by planes, tanks, and infantry to quickly conquer an enemy.
What is Blitzkrieg?
Leader of Italy during WWII.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
The reason the Soviets switched from the Axis to the Allies.
What is Hitler betrayed an agreement and invaded the Soviet Union?
The reason the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities.
What is they hoped to bring a quick end to WW2?
One way non-soldiers helped in the war effort.
What is Buying War Bonds, Recycling, Rationing, Victory Gardens, Women replaced me in the workforce?
The alliance consisting of Germany, Italy, and Japan that fought against the Allies during WWII
What is the Axis Powers?
A camp that Jewish people were sent to.
What are concentration camps?
The reason D-D was an important event in WWII.
What is the Allies began to gain ground in the war?
The effect of the U.S. bombing of two Japanese cities.
What is Japan surrenders ending the war?
Give an example of how women were not treated the same as men during WWII.
What is they weren't paid the same amount/ they were paid less?
Giving in to another’s demands
What is Appeasement?
A person who rules their country by force.
What is a dictator?