US Enters WWII
An act that allowed the United States to give weapons to ALL warring countries
What is the Neutrality Act of 1939?
This was the forced internment of people of Japanese descent following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This was the dicator of Germany that started WWII.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This was the event where 75,000 American soliders had to travel 90 miles as prisoners in the Phillippines where only 50,000 would end up surviving.
What is the Bataan Death March?
This person rescued the soliders taken prisoner after the Bataan Death March.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This was the mass movement of African Americans from the South to the North to look for better job opportunities and housing.
What is the Great Migration?
This was the battle that switched Germany from being on the offensive to the defensive.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
This was the first offensive attack by the US done in Tokyo, Japan.
What is the Doolittle Raid?
This was the reason why Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb.
What is to protect/save American lives?
This is what the US sanctioned from Japan that would lead Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor.
What is a sanction on oil and steel?
This was a riot between young boys of Mexican descent and a few individuals in the Navy in Los Angeles. It resulted in the arrests of only the young boys of Mexican descent and the spreading of hurtful and racist information about the boys.
What is the Zoot Suit Riot?
This was the name of the battle where the US went to liberate France and was considered to be the biggest turnaround for the allies.
What is D-Day?
This was considered to be the turning point of WWII in the Pacific theatre.
What is the Battle of Midway?
This was the name of the top secret project that created the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This allowed Britian to carry weapons from the US without Germany attacking the British boats.
What is the Hemispheric Defense Zone?
This was a campaign to achieve victory at home against discrimination and victory abroad against tyranny.
What is the Double V Campaign?
This was the name of the final day of the battle in Europe.
What is V-E Day?
This was the military strategy used by the US to attack Japan.
What is Island Hopping?
These were the two islands that the atomic bomb was used on.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This was why the US was upset with Japan and placed the sanctions in the first place.
What is Japan stopping open trade in Asia?
This was the shift in women's jobs during WWII.
What is women in industrial jobs?
This is where FDR, Churchill and Stalin agreed to divide germany and create the United Nations.
What is the Yalta Conferance?
This was the suicide bomber that Japan used to fight in the Pacific.
What is a Kamikaze?
This was used to end the war in the Pacific that would cause alot of humanity concerns.