This Means War!”
This 1919 treaty punished Germany and helped create resentment after World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
These laws were designed to keep the United States out of foreign wars.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
This May 1942 battle was the first naval battle fought entirely by aircraft carriers.
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea?
This German strategy used tanks, planes, and fast-moving troops.
What is blitzkrieg?
This program limited items like gas, sugar, and rubber during the war.
What is rationing?
This worldwide economic crisis made extremist leaders more appealing in the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
This 1939 policy allowed Allies to buy U.S. weapons if they paid cash and transported them.
What is Cash and Carry?
This June 1942 battle destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers and shifted the war.
What is the Battle of Midway?
This campaign (or operation) marked the first major U.S. ground combat against Germany - but it wasn't in Europe.
What is the North African Campaign (Operation Torch)?
This iconic symbol of a woman flexing represented women working in factories during WWII.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
This policy involved giving in to Hitler’s demands to avoid another war.
What is appeasement?
This 1941 act allowed the U.S. to "loan" supplies to Allied nations.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This strategy involved capturing key islands while bypassing others.
What is island hopping?
This June 6, 1944 invasion opened a second front in Western Europe
What is D-Day (Operation Overlord)?
Along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, residents were required to cover windows and extinguish outdoor lighting so German U-boats could not silhouette ships or shoreline targets.
What were coastal blackouts?
This 1938 agreement gave Germany the Sudetenland.
What is the Munich Agreement?
This deal traded U.S. destroyers for British military bases.
What is the Destroyers-for-Bases Deal?
These Marines used an unbreakable code based on their native language.
Who are the Navajo Code Talkers?
This was Germany’s last major offensive on the Western Front.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
This Supreme Court case upheld Japanese American internment during WWII.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This 1939 invasion officially began World War II in Europe.
What is Germany’s invasion of Poland?
"A date which will live in infamy" describes this attack that ended U.S. isolationism.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This April 1942 bombing raid marked America’s first strike against Japan.
What is the Doolittle Raid?
This 1945 meeting of the Big Three discussed postwar plans for Germany and Eastern Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This secret U.S. project developed the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?