President Roosevelt enacted a series of these in hopes of keeping America out of World War II
What are Neutrality Acts?
This was the practice of saving valuable resources for the soldiers fighting overseas
What is rationing?
These were the three European countries that were a part of the Axis Powers at the BEGINNING of World War II
What are Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union?
The event took place on December 7, 1941 and led to the United States entering WWII
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
This country suffered the highest number of casualties estimated at the end of World War II
What is the Soviet Union?
What is the Manhattan Project?
These were planted by American citizens to ensure that food production would be sufficient for soldiers fighting in the war
What are victory gardens?
This term means lightning war, and was a tactic used to quickly take out an enemy by the Germans
What is blitzkrieg?
This was the group of American soldiers who used their language to communicate secret codes without the interference of the Japanese
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
This was the tribunal held after World War II to hold German officials accountable for the Holocaust and other war crimes
What were the Nuremberg Trials?
This was the law enacted by President Roosevelt that created the Japanese internment camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor
What is Executive Order 9066?
These were purchased as a loan to the U.S. federal government (to fund the war) that could be cashed in at a later date
What are war bonds?
This was the largest amphibious invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France in 1944
What is D-Day?
This technique was used by the U.S. to get closer to Japan over the course of the war, one island at a time
What is island-hopping?
This country was divided into four parts and controlled by the U.S., France, Britain and the Soviet Union
What is Germany?
This was the Supreme Court case that determined that Japanese internment camps were in fact constitutional because of the threat of war
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This was heavily used in the media to influence Americans into contributing to the war effort
What is propaganda?
The strategy by the Allies to keep Hitler from invading neighboring countries for his idea of lebensraum
What is appeasement?
These were the two cities in Japan that were targets of the first atomic bomb dropping
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This technology was instrumental in detecting a moving objects range and direction
What is radar?
The program that provided Great Britain with American goods and weapons with a promise to be paid back after the war
What is the Lend-Lease Program?
The department that controlled all communication related to World War II and the war effort
What is the Office of War Information (OWI)?
The invasion of this country marked the beginning of World War II
What is Poland?
This was the atrocity committed by Japan that forced prisoners to walk 60 miles to Camp O'Donnell in the Philippines
What was the Bataan Death March?
The advancement in medicine lowered infection rates among soldiers and is still widely used in medicine today
What is penicillin?