People/Countries
The leader of the United States
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
The event that brought the United States into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor?
The two theatres where the second world war took place
What are Europe and the Pacific Ocean?
The project that developed atomic weapons for the United States
What is the Manhattan Project?
Why did the United States declare war on Germany & Italy?
TRICK QUESTION, they didn't!
The nation that attacked the United States
What is Japan?
Bonus: Where did this attack take place?
The act that allowed the United States to lend any national defense "article" as long as it was deemed "necessary" for the protection of the USA.
What is the Lend-Lease Act of 1941
Where Japanese Americans were taken during WWII.
What are internment camps?
This is information, typically biased, used to promote a political or social cause.
What is propaganda?
This term means doing something to keep the peace
What is appeasement?
These countries made up the Allied Powers
Who are the United States, the United Kingdom, and the USSR?
This order created military zones along the west coast and allowed the military to forcibly relocate people of Japanese heritage.
What was Executive Order 9066?
Where the majority of the United States's Pacific fleet was located in 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This is what American minorities wanted during the war because of their service to the nation.
What is a Double V?
Bonus: What are the two Vs?
This terms refers to the usage of all of a nation's resources during a war effort (industry, finance, labor, defense, etc.)
What is total war?
Who is Benito Mussolini?
This document outlined shared principles and hopes for the post-war world between the United States and Great Britain.
Hint, it included the four freedoms (speech, worship, want, fear)
What is the Atlantic Charter?
Why weren't Japanese Americans from the midwest/east coast targeted by relocation?
Immigration/migration patterns of Asian immigrants to the United States. Angel Island, west coast, etc.
This program brought in millions of Mexican immigrants to fill vacant farm jobs during the war
What is the Bracero Program?
A weapon that gets its power from splitting an atom
What is an atomic bomb?
Leader of the Allied Forces & commander of D-Day
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
Bonus: What position would he eventually hold?
The United States did this to influence the end of the war
What is drop the atomic bombs?
Bonus: Name the cities where the bombs were dropped
These countries had dictators who controlled the political landscapes of their nations during the second world war
Who are the Kingdom of Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union?
Describe how the war helped the perception of women in the United States
Social barriers, opportunities previously reserved for men, bringing home a wage while the men were away, changed the idea that a women could be the breadwinner of the family, etc.
This supreme court case declared internment camps to be legal on the basis of national security, not race
What is Korematsu v. United States?