Vocab
a system that limited how much of certain goods people could buy
Rationing
Used to help finance the war
War Bonds
Pilots flew planes into battle ships and aircraft carriers
“Kamikaze” Pilots
U.S. entered into the war in
1941
The stop of Soviet influence & the spread of communism
Containment
What is the name given to the treatment of Jews and other groups (such as Gypsies, Communists, homosexuals and the handicapped) considered “undesirable” by the Nazis?
Holocaust
The office of war information directed....
Propaganda
The turning point of the war in the pacific was the…..
Allied invasion of German-controlled Europe along the French coast (Normandy).
D-Day
A military alliance among democratic countries in Europe & North America
NATO
a temporary marked increase in the birth rate, especially the one following World War II
Baby Boom
The _______________ directed factories to produce war supplies in order to
out-produce the Axis Powers
War Production Board
Who wrote to President Roosevelt about the idea of creating the Atomic Bomb
Albert Einstein
How many Americans died at the Battle of Bulge
19,000
For 11 months, U.S. & British planes filled with supplies landed in Berlin to bring food, fuel, & supplies
Berlin Airlift
Which was a wartime strategy used by the United States against Japan?
Island Hopping
What office set fixed prices on consumer goods and distributed rationing books
The office of price administration
The First place in Japan that the United States used the Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima
The Soviet victory at ___________ was a turning point in World War II because the Russians began pushing towards Germany from the East by 1943
Stalingrad
The USA became a leader in the _________________
& World Bank
United Nations
Plan in which the US offered $13 billion to help rebuild post-war Europe
Group of African American fighter pilots
Tuskegee Airmen
What year did Japan Surrender?
1945
On May 9, 1945, the German government signed an unconditional surrender to the Allies
V-E Day
This agency was created to spy on foreign nations, collect national security information, and carry out covert operations
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)