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a system of government where the whole population has a vote
What is democracy
A system of government with one all-powerful leader
What is dictatorship
A system of government where the economy is state-run
What is Socialism?
A political idea by Karl Marx, in which he advocated for all property to be publicly owned and everyone is paid for their abilities and needs.
What is Communism?
A system of government that is dictatorial and has complete power over the state.
What is totalitarianism
June 6th 1944, where Allied forces invaded northern France via beach landings
What is D-Day
Also known as the Ardennes Counteroffensive. It was the last major attack on the western front by Germany.
What is the Battle of the Bulge
A top-secret project to develop the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project
Places where soldiers would go to prepare for war, many of which were located in Arizona
What are training bases
What the Manhattan project led up to, the beginning of the end for the Japanese in WW2
The primary event that led to US entry into the war.
Pearl Harbor
Campaigns to encourage Americans to buy Treasury bonds to raise money for the war effort
What are war bond drives?
A major turning point in the war against Japan, where the US gained a place to land fighter planes and bombers.
What is the battle of Iwo Jima
the controlled distribution of food and other resources
What is rationing
The largest casualty battle in the pacific front, with over 100,000 Japanese losses, and 50,000 allied losses.
What is the battle of Okinawa
Created by Executive Order 9066
What are internment camps on US soil
People who stepped in and took the jobs of the soldiers when they went off to fight in the war.
What are women and minorities in the workforce
The forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese, German, and Italian Americans.
What are internment camps
Bilingual Navajo speakers used for delivering secret messages during WW2
What are Native American code talkers?
Transformed Arizona, was extremely useful to the war due to the need of copper.
The three main causes of WW2
What are, the aggressive search for resources by japan, political ideologies of fascism and nazism, and resentment for the Treaty of Versailles
The United States' role in D-Day
What is providing 100,000 troops for the invasion
The names of the days that the Allies won the war, and the day they beat Japan
One of the six flag raisers on the famous photo on Iwo Jima
Who is Ira Hayes?