Important Leaders
President during the Great Depression and WWII. Instituted the New Deal and was the first president to be elected to four terms.
FDR; Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States naval base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, causing the entry of the United States into World War II. This base was attacked on December 7, 1941.
Pearl Harbor
Gardens that citizens planted to raise their own vegetables, so that food could be sent to the troops during WWII.
Victory Gardens
Fill in the blank:
June 6, 1944 the Allied forces of Britain, America, Canada & France attacked German Forces on the coast of _______ , France
Normandy
Baby Boom
American general who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II.
Douglas MacArthur
Japanese military forced about 76,000 of Americans and Filipinos to march 66 miles in the Philippines with little food and water, most died or were killed on the way. (1942)
Bataan Death March
Short-term loans that individual citizens made to the government that financed two-thirds of the war's cost.
War Bonds
These countries were the Allied powers during WWII
France, Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union
Airlift belonging to the US in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians blockaded rail, road and water access.
Berlin Airlift
Upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945, this president led the country through the last few months of World War II. He is best known for making the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against Japan in August 1945.
Harry Truman
Naval battle between the United States and Japan in the Pacific theater in WWII 1942 and a turning point in the war. The U.S had naval victory over the Japanese fleet.
Battle of Midway
A system of allocating scarce goods and services using criteria other than price.
Rationing
A small group of Americans who volunteered to serve as pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the US entering the war.
Flying Tigers
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) following the devastation of WWII. (European Recovery Program)
Georgian revolutionary and Soviet Union political leader who governed during 1924-1953. He was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin
Two Japanese cities which were victim to the U.S.' atomic bombs in 1945 (during WWII). It was the U.S.' attempt to make Japan back out of war and surrender.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1941 law that authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security.
Lend-Lease Act
Native Americans from the Navajo tribe used their own language to make a code for the U.S. military that the Japanese could not decipher. They helped communicate during times of war to coordinate massive operations.
Navajo Code Talkers
Benefits in law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations.
GI Bill
American Military General who began in North Africa and became the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe during WWII
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Issued by President FDR, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security. 112,000 Japanese-Americans forced into camps causing loss of homes and businesses.
Executive Order 9066
What countries compromised and are a part of NATO?
Ones we know of would be Canada, France, the UK and the US. Other answers include; Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States
332 Fighter Group famous for shooting down over 200 enemy planes. African American pilots who trained at a flying school during WWII.
Tuskegee Airmen
A 1949 military defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations to collectively defend against national aggression.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)