Neutrality
What was the name of the Acts, passed between 1935 and 1937, that initially said the US would not sell weapons to any nation at war?
President of the US at the start of WW2
FDR
Roughly how many women entered the workforce during WW2?
6 Million
What nation did the majority of the allied fighting on Germany's Eastern Front?
Soviet Union
Strategy of taking lightly armed Japanese-occupied islands, one by one, on the way to Japan itself.
Island Hopping
The Cash-and-Carry policy meant that the US WOULD now sell weapons to nations at war, as long as they did what two things?
Pay in cash, provide their own transport
President of the US at the end of WW2
Harry S Truman
The government distributed these to citizens, which determined the amount of essential goods you could buy.
Ration books
What affect did Jim Crow have on the US Military during the war?
Segregated units.
Name of the famous Black Air Force unit, who saw notable success in the war.
Tuskegee Airmen
What was the name of the act that said the US would let the allied nations "borrow" war materials, as long as they paid us for them after the war. We'd also bring them to them now.
Lend-Lease Act
What nation became the "Code Talkers", whose language became the basis of the U.S. military code that was never broken during the war?
The Navajo. But let's not forget the Choctaw did it in WWI, but no one talks about it.
Name of the act that allowed FDR to curtail personal liberties and expand governmental powers in time of war.
War Powers Act
Crossing the Atlantic proved difficult, but hundreds of Liberty Ships made the voyage. One of the primary building locations of Liberty Ships was this city that once served as James Oglethorpe's colonial capital.
Savannah
Head of the program to develop the first Atomic Bomb
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer
The US provided the allies with so many good at the start of the war, that we became known as the "Arsenal of ________"
Democracy
Who was the dictator of Italy, who became the first Fascist European leader in the lead-up to WW2?
Benito Mussolini
Civil Rights leader who threatened FDR with a March on Washington to protest for equal pay for African Americans at government jobs.
A. Phillip Randolph
Operation Overlord saw the US, Brits, and Canadians storm the beaches of what part of France, to establish a new front to fight the Nazis?
Normandy
These were the two cities where the US dropped atomic bombs
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What side of the war did Ireland fight on?
Neither. They were neutral.
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union through WW2? (Spoiler: he's going to come up a lot next unit too)
Joseph Stalin
The name of the order to remove Japanese Americans from the west coast into internment camps.
Executive Order 9066
The last battle of the European Theater, that saw the Soviets take the German capital, and Hitler shoot himself in his bunker.
Battle of Berlin
Name one of the two last battles of the Pacific theater, that took place on Japanese islands, and demonstrated the potential cost of a full scale invasion of Japan
Okinawa and Iwo Jima