Pre-WW2
Appeasement event in 1938
Munich Pact
Rationing
Government limiting access to food and materials needed for war
A. Philip Randolph
Threat of protest march on DC for equal wages for African Americans
D-Day
Invasion of Normandy coast in France in 1944
Europe First
Wanted "Living Space"
Nazism
Which nation did the US place an oil embargo on after the events in Nanjing?
Japan
Robert J. Oppenhiemer
Lead scientist on Manhattan Project
Caused Italy to surrender and join Allies
Invasion of Sicily and Italy
Saturation and Strategic bombing
tactic used by US and Britain
Fascist leader of Italy
Mussolini
Why did the US embrace neutrality after WWI?
Recalled horrors of WWI and wanted to avoid being drawn into conflict.
Code Talkers
Navajo men in military
Caused Japan to begin a defensive war
Battle of Midway
Tactic used to defeat Japan without using a lot of men and materials
Leap-Frogging
Allowed US to send "all aid short of war" to Britain
Lend-Lease Act
What drew the US into WW2?
Pearl Harbor attack
Korematsu
sued US government for internment and lost case
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
ended the war
Final Solution
Decision by Germany to begin exterminating the Jewish faith
Great Depression in Germany
3 ways Americans supported the war without joining military
Work in factories, war bonds, victory gardens
Rosie the Riveter
Popular song encouraging women to join work force
Location of first US invasion
North Africa
Double V Campaign
Effort of African Americans to fight fascism and racism