WWII Begins
This is policy of giving concessions to an aggressor, in this case Hitler, to avoid direct conflict.
What is appeasement?
This is the date that will forever live in infamy, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
What is December 7, 1941?
Native Americans from this tribe helped the US by using their language to communicate coded messages between military units.
Who are the Navajo?
This Strategy helped the US defeat Japan by going island to island eliminating Japanese forces and pushing them back to Japan.
What is Island Hopping?
This code name was used to describe the making of the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This is the US policy at the beginning of WWII. It was a result of their reaction to the end of WWI.
What is isolationism?
This act allowed the US to sell military supplies to any nation vital to the US defense (aka Great Britain).
What is the Lend Lease Act?
This process was used by Americans at home during WWII to make sure their we re enough supplies for the war effort.
What is rationing?
This man was the general in charge of the War in the Pacific.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This weapon was created during WWII, dramatically increasing the ability of mankind to create mass destruction.
What are atomic bombs?
This event helped bring about and end to the Great Depression
What is WWII?
This agency was used to nearly 10 million soldiers into WWII.
What is the selective service?
Japanese Americans were forced to leave their homes and enter these. This was due to the American government fearing espionage following the attacks on Pearl Harbor.
What are internment camps?
This is the code name of the largest land invasion of WWII, that took place in Normandy, France on June 6, 1944.
What is D-Day?
The US government ended WWII by using weapons of mass destruction on these two Japanese cities.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This organization, which the US was not a part of, failed to keep the peace prior to WWII.
What is the League of Nations?
This agreement created an official alliance between the US and Great Britain prior to the US joining WWII. It made sure Britain would address the root causes of War this time.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
This court case argued that what happened to Japanese American citizens in WWII violated their constitutional rights.
What is Korematsu vs. the US?
Even though people from all races fought in WWII, military units still faced this due to the political climate of discrimination at the time.
What is segregation?
Theses terms describes the days that fighting official ended in Europe and Japan.
What are VE-Day and V-J Day?
These men led fascist dictatorships in Germany and Italy, eventually leading the Axis powers.
Who are Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini?
These acts prevented the US from selling weapons to any nation at war in the very beginning of WWII.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
This group of people entered to workforce, volunteered for non combat roles in the military, and providing entertainment like playing baseball.
Who are women?
These were the names of the military units that women volunteered for during WWII. they allowed women to serve in non combat roles.
What are WACS and WAVES?
This man was in charge of the secret project that created the weapons of mass destruction at the end of WWII.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?