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The name of the agency in charge of wartime production.
War Production Board
Which side launched the Battle of the Bulge?
Axis Powers (Germany)
What did Allies gain at Iwo Jima?
2 airfields (close enough to bomb Japan's mainland)
Name the Executive Order authorizing internment.
Executive Order 9066
Name the Big Three
Churchill, Stalin & FDR
Define rationing.
Limiting the amount of something like sugar, dairy products, meat, tires, gasoline.
Why were the Nuremberg Trials held?
To prosecute German war criminals
What is significant about the Battle of Okinawa?
Kamikaze pilots, bloodiest battle of Pacific
What part of the country were the internment camps mainly located?
West Coast
Name the field commander for the Axis Powers in Europe.
Erin Rommel
What is the purpose of rationing?
Conserve resources for military use
What was the objective of the Battle of the Bulge?
to force a breakthrough in the Allied lines
Name of the purpose of the Manhattan Project.
develop the atomic bomb
Thousands of Japanese Americans were forced to live in government-run camps during the war.
Name the Allied commander in the Pacific.
Admiral Nimitz
What was the purpose of the "Rosie the Riveter" campain?
encourage women to enter the workforce (wartime job)
Why did it take the Allied troops weeks longer to get to Paris after the D-Day invasion?
The hedgerows (Bocage) that were used to divide property
Why did the US drop atomic bombs on Japan?
to force surrender and end the war
First generation (Nisei)
Name the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Europe.
Dwight Eisenhower
Name the propaganda tools used by the US gov't.
radio broadcasts, posters, movies, leaflets
What was decided at the Yalta Conference?
established the plan for the occupation of Europe (division of Germany)
Name the two cities where bombs were dropped.
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of internment.
Korematsu vs. United States
Name the US President after FDR's death.
Harry S. Truman