Two countries that declared war on the United States after the U.S. declared war on Japan.
What are Italy and Germany?
100
Event and Date that got the U.S. involved in World War II.
What is Pear Harbor: December 7th, 1941.
100
She fought for the rights of child workers...her real first name was Maria.
Who is Mother Jones?
100
To this day, people discuss whether it was moral to drop the atomic bomb on these two cities.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
200
European country that made an alliance with Germany.
What is Italy?
200
Italy surrendered, but Germany swooped in the help. It took this long for American troops to defeat Germany on Italian soil.
What is two years?
200
Name of camps where Japanese-Americans were held from 1942-1945.
What are internment camps?
200
This word describes prejudice against immigrants.
What is nativism?
200
Some Americans didn't want the U.S. to get involved in Europe's problems. This is the name for that belief.
What is isolationism?
300
It's where D-Day took place
What is France?
300
The largest land-sea-air operation in history.
What is D-Day?
300
Americans grew food at home, called...
What are Victory Gardens?
300
He wrote a book describing horrendous conditions in meat-packing factorys...wonder what he would think of the Horse-meat scandal today!
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
This is the name of the ship carrying Jewish refugees that FDR chose not to welcome to the U.S.
What is the SS St. Louis?
400
Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, took place here
What is USSR/Russia/ Soviet Union?
400
The first place that Americans went to fight actually wasn't in Europe, but this region where many Italian and German troops were stationed.
What is North Africa?
400
All African-American air-force unit...they fought for "double victory" against Hitler and racism.
Who are the Tuskegee airmen?
400
Environmentalism and advocate of national parks.
Who is John Muir?
400
This term describes targeting not just soldiers, but civilians as well.
What is total war?
500
Germany actually invade this country before Poland.
What is Czechoslovakia?
500
Month that the War ends in Europe
What is May 1945?
500
This term means stereotypes about how men and women should act and what kind of work they should do. Women during WWII challenged ideas about this term.
What are "gender roles"?
500
This word describes having a set number. In 1924, an immigration law set a set number of immigrants allowed in the United States from each country based on the 1890 census.
What is a quota?
500
Number of Japanese Americans relocated after Executive Order 9066