Causes & Context
nations mobilize all available resources and target both military forces and civilian infrastructure
What is "total war"?
The U.S. won this 1942 Pacific battle against Japan.
What is Midway?
Women worked in factories and were called…
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
He was the U.S. President during most of WWII.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This law let the U.S. give weapons to Allies before joining the war.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
The U.S. tried to stay out of war in the 1930s
What is isolationism?
The largest sea invasion on June 6, 1944, took place here.
What is Normandy (D-Day)?
Japanese Americans were forced into these during the war.
What are internment camps?
He was the British leader during WWII.
Who is Winston Churchill?
People were limited in buying food and gas through this system.
What is rationing?
This country attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941.
What is Japan?
This battle stopped Germany from taking over the Soviet Union.
What is Stalingrad?
People bought these to help pay for the war.
What are war bonds?
This American general led the D-Day invasion in 1944.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Roosevelt signed this order to remove Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
What is Executive Order 9066?
Germany invaded this country in 1939, starting World War II.
What is Poland?
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these two cities in 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
African Americans fought in segregated groups like the…
What is the Tuskegee Airmen?
this African American soldier became the first to receive the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during World War II
Who is Vernon Baker?
This group made sure factories produced enough for the war.
What is the War Production Board?
Signed in 1919, this treaty ended World War I but left Germany with harsh reparations, setting the stage for World War II.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The war in Europe ended when Germany surrendered here in 1945.
What is Berlin?
Factories and cities were busy because of this war effort.
What is production for the war?
This group of African American pilots fought in World War II, proving their skill and bravery despite facing racial discrimination at home and in the military.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
The Supreme Court case that allowed Japanese internment to continue was…
What is Korematsu v. United States?