Origins of WWII
The United States' most important strategic and naval base in the Pacific.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The Supreme Court case that ruled Japanese Americans' civil rights could be set aside in a time of war.
Korematsu v. United States
The Japanese showed their willingness to use force during the Rape of Nanking and also against US forces in the Philippines during this event.
What is the Bataan Death March?
This occurred after the war ended when Private Longoria, a Mexican American who fought and died in the war, was returned to his wife and the local funeral home refused her service on the basis of his Mexican heritage.
What is the Longoria Affair?
They were the first African American fighter pilots in World War II, showed that African Americans could handle even the toughest assignments.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
The first series of these said the United States would not sell weapons or give loans to any country involved in war.
What is the Neutrality Act?
African Americans and Japanese Americans both served in these types of units
What are segregated units?
Where did Allied troops deploy on D-Day, the first day of Operation Overlord?
What is the beaches of Normandy?
What bill helped over 2 million U.S. veterans attend college after World War II?
What is the GI Bill?
This was the US response to Japan's surprise attack on a U.S. naval base in Pearl Harbor.
What is a declaration of war on Japan?
The foreign policy the United States tried to pursue as conflict was brewing in Europe
What is isolationism?
Americans were encouraged to do this with goods and resources to ensure everything possible went to the war effort.
What is rationing?
The Allies invaded this Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea in July of 1943.
What is Sicily?
Started because African American soldiers returning from the War began demanding equal treatment.
What is the (modern) civil rights movement?
Their work was largely credited for the success of the United States at Iwo Jima.
This government system was established by Stalin in the Soviet Union and in three other countries during the period between World War I and World War II
What is totalitarianism?
The name given to the troubles that arose when marines and sailors attacked Latinos and pachucos in Los Angeles.
What are the Zoot Suit Riots?
Japanese expansion ended completely when the Allies defeated them at _________?
What is the Battle at Midway?
These were later paid to Japanese Americans who had been interned during WW2 to begin to compensate for their losses at the hands of the US government.
What are reparations?
This act allowed the US to send "all aid short of war" to Allied countries, including letting allies borrow weapons, etc.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
These two countries signed a non-aggression pact in 1939, promising to not attack one another.
What are Germany and the Soviet Union
This office was instituted when the war began in order to control money, rent, etc. and prevent inflation.
What is the Office of Price Administration?
The top-secret American program to develop an atomic weapon.
What was the Manhattan Project?
The lead scientist on the Manhattan Project, he felt that the US used the atomic bomb incorrectly, but defended the science and his work on the project.
Who is Robert Oppenheimer?
Many women moved into this field as a career after the war. They were part of the economy that does not produce goods.
What is the service sector?