Vocabulary
To not get involved
What is neutral?
Japanese attack on this naval base brought the US into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Law that required men between the ages of 18 and 38 to sign up for military service.
What is the Selective Service Act?
Places were people were temporarily imprisoned.
What are internment camps?
The last names of your two social studies teachers?
Betts and Gasper
The plan to defeat Germany before concentrating on Japan
What is the Europe-First Strategy?
The reason the US was neutral at the start of World War II.
What is that many Americans were reluctant to join another foreign war after World War I.
Term meaning "to prepare for war."
What is mobilize?
The group of people who was placed in internment camps.
Who are Japanese-Americans?
The name of Mr. Gasper's college.
What is Eastern Illinois?
Mandatory recruitment for military service
What is a draft?
The name of the policy that allowed the United States to provide assistance to the Allies.
What is Lend-Lease?
Name given to the image of a strong women hard at work in a factory that was used as propaganda during World War II.
What is Rosie the Riveter?
The reasons for internment.
What are racism, fears of espionage and sabotage, and revenge for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
The name of the class mascot.
Who is Vigo?
A system to divide up scarce resources
What is rationing?
The reasons the Japanese attacked the United States.
Why is because the US restricted materials sent to Japan and the US military was an obstacle to continued Japanese expansion?
The names of minority groups that fought for the United States in World War II.
African-Americans, Latino-Americans, Native Americans, and Japanese Americans.
The number of Japanese internment camps located in isolated areas away from centers of population.
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The first name of your two social studies teachers.
What are Luke (Gasper) and Nick (Betts)?
Government agency in charge of coordinating manufacture of materials for the war.
What is the War Production Board?
The date "which will live in infamy."
What is December 7, 1941?
The event that ended the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
The name of the order issued by President Roosevelt that created internment camps during World War II?
What is Executive Order 9066?
The name of Mr. Gasper's avatar on Goggle Classroom.
Who is Patrick Swayze?