Selective Service System
This expanded the draft and eventually mustered 10 million soldiers.
Sedition Act
unlawful to verbally abuse the US form of gov., Constitution, or mil. forces
D-Day
D-Dayallied forces under dwight d. eisenhower landed on the beaches of Normandy in history's greatest naval invasion.
Pilots that were trained in Tuskegee, Alabama was called
Tuskegee Airmen
what is the pacifism
opposition to all war
Office of Scientific Research and Development
This was responsible for improvements in radar and sonar and the development of "wonder drugs" such as penicillin that saved countless lives.
Bernard Baruch
An influential Wall Street investment broker who was the head of the WIB and who reported directly to the President
V-E Day
May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered
The commander of the American & Philippines forces
is who
General Douglas MacArthur
what three places were in Axis powers
Germany, Italy and Japan
What is this image called
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
What are three important facts about War Industries Board
-One of the agencies
-Regulated all industries engaged in war effort
-Did three things: regulated what was produced, where it went, and what it would cost = ULTIMATE POWER
V-J Day
"Victory over Japan day" is the celebration of the Surrender of Japan, which was initially announced on August 15, 1945
The Lieutenant Colonel in command of the mission to bomb Tokyo is who
James Doolittle
Hitler forced a union between Germany and Austria true or false
True
War Production Boardy
This assumed the responsibility for converting industry from peace-time to wartime production and distributing raw materials to key industries.
Food Administration
self-explanatory agency
the name of the FIRST atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima was called
Little Boy
One of Japan's main goals during WWII was to remove the United States as a Pacific power in order to gain territory in East Asia was what
Battle of Midway
a region of western Czechoslovakia taken by Germany was what
Sudetenland
What is the name of this person
George Marshall
Some women opposed war and some didn't True or False
True
make loans to businesses was called
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
A battle that took place during the Tunisia campaign of World War II in February 1943. It was a series of battle fought around Kasserine Pass. was what
Battle of Kasserine Pass
what does blitzkrieg mean
lightning war; Hitler used this against Poland