Important Dates
WW11
Vocab
Minorities in the War
Dictators and other Leaders
100
Germany invades Poland...
What is September 3, 1939?
100
Factories switched making consumer goods to tanks, planes, guns, and other things.
What is the wartime economy?
100
Soldiers or others killed, wounded, sick, or missing...
What is casualty?
100
This race had to go into internment camps in the US...
What are the Japanese?
100
He committed genocide on the Jews. He was a dictator over Germany for many years...
Who was Adolf Hitler?
200
December 7, 1941...
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
200
An organization that was created by Harry S. Truman to prevent further World Wars...
What is the United Nations?
200
To free from something or someplace...
What is liberate?
200
This gender of people joined the WAAC and the WAVES...
What are women?
200
She wrote in her diary from age 13- age 15, until she died of a disease in a concentration camp...
Who was Anne Frank?
300
December 8, 1941...
What is when the US declared war on Japan?
300
Mass killing of the Jew's population in Europe...
What is the Holocaust?
300
Japanese fighter pilots who crashed their planes into boats and other military items, in an attempt to damage property, or kill soldiers...
What is a kamikaze?
300
This race joined in the army as well, like the Tusgugee Airmen...
Who are African-Americans?
300
He was president after FDR died...
Who was Harry S. Truman?
400
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima...
What is August 6, 1945?
400
The aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima...
What was the Enola Gay?
400
Attacking one island from the air, landing troops, and then gaining control of it...
What is island hopping?
400
This race (over 29,000 of them)lived in Haiwaii, and also served in the army...
Who are the Chinese?
400
She was invited into the United Nations, and wrote a introduction for "The Diary of a Young Girl"...
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
500
Bombing of Nagasaki...
What is August 9, 1945?
500
This is where D-Day happened?
What is Normandy?
500
A thing that would harness the power of atoms, the bits of matter that make up every object...
What is the atomic bomb?
500
These people talked in unbreakable code during WW2...
Who are the Navajo?
500
The emperor of Japan, who lived from 1901 to 1989...
Who was Hirohito?
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