People
Presidentof the USA who dropped the atomic bomb on Japan
Harry Truman
The belief of staying out of world affairs
Isolationism
The Japanese attack on ____________ led to America entering the war on this date
Pearl Harbor
Dec 7, 1941
Name of order to send Japanese Americans to internment camps...
Executive Order 9066
Group of native Americans who helped the US transmitted messages in their complex language
Navajo
Code- talkers
Prime Minister of Great Britain who pushed FDR to enter the war
Winston Churchill
In German it means "lightning war"
Blitzkrieg
The American decision to stop exporting _______ to Japan contributed to the decision to attack Pearl Harbor
Why did US do this?
Oil
Sanctions on Japan after their invasion of China 1937
World War 2 effects the Great Depression in what way?
It ends the economic crisis in America
The successor to the League of Nations
United Nations
Lead scientist on the Manhattan Project
Robert Oppenheimer
Einstein was there too ...
Nickname for female workers during the war created by government propaganda
Rosie the Riveter
This legislation allowed the U.S. to supply weapons to Great Britain and the USSR
Lend-Lease Act
Name 1 of the 2 atomic bombs dropped on Japan
Fat Man and Little Boy
Name of organization aimed at rewarding members of the armed forces for their services and preventing widespread unemployment and economic disruption
GI Bill Of Rights
Japanes-American who sued the US in the Supreme Court over internment
Daniel Korematsu
Another term to describe the military draft
Conscription or Selective Service
Name two organizations who opposed American involvement in the war
America First, Keep America Out of War Congress
The US drops the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of?
Hiroshima
Second city: Nagasaki
Define Conscientious Objector
A person who, for religious or other reasons, opposes war
Who attended the Yalta Conference and what did this conference serve
Truman, Stalin, Churchill
to determine the post-war reorganization of Europe, including the fate of Germany and the establishment of new governments in liberated countries.
Define/Explain Operation Overlord
Allied invasion of Europe
D-Day June 6, 1944
Explain what "Double V" campaign was about
Symbolic of the growth in NAACP and Black attitudes towards the war and society
Victory over Racism in America and Fascism abroad
Explain the Bracero Program
Student must explain thoroughly
During WW2, 700,000 migrant blacks left south to industrial heartland for work...this is known as...
"liberty trains"
Second Great Migration