WWII Vocab
Top secret project for the building of the atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
What was the main weapon used by the Germans in concentration camps during the Holocaust?
What is poison gas/gas chambers?
This is the name that Adolf Hitler gave himself after becoming dictator of Germany.
What did FDR call "a day that will live in infamy?"
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Goods rationed during WWII?
What are gas, coffee, food, etc.?
Military dictator/PM of Japan
Who is Tojo?
This country had the most soldiers participate in the second World War.
What is the Soviet Union?
This is a more extreme form of Fascism used by Adolf Hitler in Germany during the 1930s and 40s.
What is Nazism?
General Doenitz used "wolf-pack tactic" with these weapons to attack US ships in the Atlantic.
What are U-Boats?
FDR created the Lend-lease program after THIS leader wrote to him asking for help.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This battle started in the English Channel and moved into Northern France.
What is D-Day/Operation Overlord?
Selling only a limited amount of an item to reserve resources for soldiers.
What is ration?
What did the Servicemen's Readjustment Act do?
What is provide education for WWII Vets?
This leader signed a nonaggression pact with Hitler.
Who is Stalin?
This was the name of Hitler's Airforce that dropped bombs on Britain for almost a year.
What is the Luftwaffe?
American Icon/propaganda that encouraged women to take jobs in factories.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
Specific group that were used as secret code talkers in WWII
Who were the Navajo?
What was the name of the plane that the US used in the Marianas Turkey Shoot?
Ordered the atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan
Who is Truman?
This battle was the very last battle in the Pacific before the Atomic Bombs were dropped.
What is Okinawa?