WWII Vocab
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Doing something to keep the peace

Appeasement

100

The U.S. Congress passed a series of neutrality acts to?

be neutral and stay out of the war
100

What was the Munich Agreement?

Agreement, Appeasing Hitler, Failed Policy

100

Where did Japanese Americans forced to stay during WWII?

Internment camps

100

an indispensable source of food for the home front

Victory Gardens

200

not helping or supporting either side in a conflict

Neutral

200

This event would get the U.S. into WWII?

Pearl Harbor

200
Who was part of the Axis Powers?

Germany, Italy, Japan

200

The Tuskegee Airmen helped lead to?

Desegregation

200

What were the braceros job?

help be laborers 

300

Information, often biased or
misleading,

Propaganda

300

Pearl Harbor was known as

Day of Infamy

300

Who was part of the Allied Powers?

U.S, UK, USSR

300

D-Day helped free what country?

France

300

Why did the U.S. plan to drop the atomic bombs?

the use of the bomb would shorten the war and save the lives of American soldiers.

400

The unjust or prejudicial
treatment of different
categories of people

Discrimination
400

Name 3 dictators at this time

Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo

400

Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?

First African American Military Aviators

400
Why was Executive order 9066 a violation of civil rights? 



5th Amendment states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process

400
Who was the scientist who led the Manhattan Project?

Robert Oppenheimer

500

mass political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism, militarism, and the supremacy of the nation over the individual.

Fascism

500

Germany made a non aggression pact with this country?

Soviet Union

500

Who was Rosie the Riveter?

Cultural icon representing women who worked in
defense industry factories and shipyards during
WWII

500

The biggest land, sea, air invasion

D-Day

500

What 2 Japanese cities did the U.S. drop atomic bombs on?

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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