Entering the War
This devastating attack on a US naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, directly led to America's entry into World War II.
Pearl Harbor
To conserve vital resources during the war, American citizens participated in this practice by planting gardens in their yards.
Victory Gardens
This crucial technology, initially developed in Britain, was significantly improved and mass-produced in the US, playing a vital role in naval warfare and submarine detection.
Radar
This massive Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, is considered a major turning point in the European theater.
D-Day
This decisive naval battle in June 1942 is considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific, significantly weakening the Japanese fleet.
The Battle of Midway
Before officially entering the war, the US supported Allied nations through these types of things
Loaning money, selling goods
It created a boom
This vehicle was designed for combat and transporting many troops. It became a well known car today
The Jeep
American forces faced their first major defeat against German forces in this winter offensive in Belgium in late 1944.
The Battle of the Bulge
American Marines famously raised the US flag on this strategically important island after a bloody battle in early 1945.
Iwo Jima
The Selective Service Act is this
The draft, requiring men 18-45 to register to possibly go to war
Millions of American women entered the workforce during WWII, famously symbolized by this iconic figure.
Rosie the Riveter
American scientists and engineers worked on this top-secret project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which ultimately led to the creation of atomic weapons.
The Manhattan Project
This American general served as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, overseeing the D-Day invasion and the subsequent liberation of Western Europe.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
This American general led the US forces in the Southwest Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
America had this kind of attitude towards the war and the world at the beginning of WW2
Isolationist
This practice involved the government setting limits on the amount of certain goods civilians could purchase, ensuring fair distribution of scarce resources
Rationing
A B-29 Superfortress
V.E. Day
The US employed this strategy of selectively attacking strategically important islands and bypassing others to advance towards Japan.
Island Hopping
These are the major countries in the Allies and Axis Powers (Name all of them)
Allies: Russia, France, GB, USA
Axis: Germany, Japan, Italy
Executive Order 9066 led to the forced relocation and internment of thousands of Americans of this descent on the West Coast.
Japanese Americans, internment camps
Robert J. Oppenheimer is famously quoted as saying this after the test of the first nuclear bomb
"I am become death, destroyer of worlds?
Where did the allies choose to attack first when it came to Europe and the Axis? Name the country and why they those that...
Libya in North Africa, and because they considered it and Italy to be the "Soft Underbelly" of Europe.
The use of these Japanese suicide pilots posed a significant threat to American naval vessels in the later stages of the Pacific War
Kamikaze Pilots