Causes and Buildup
The 3 countries in the Axis Powers
What are Japan, Germany, and Italy?
Battle in France that killed thousands of soldiers at a beach
What is the Battle of Normandy (D-Day)?
America joined World War II after this event.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The 2 Japanese cities where the United States dropped atomic bombs.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Some of these types of camps were in Tennessee during World War II.
What are prisoner-of-war camps?
This act allowed America to sell weapons to the United Kingdom.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This is the leader of US troops in the Pacific.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
Presidents during World War II
Who are Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), and Harry S. Truman?
Hitler’s famous strategy for attacking other countries.
What is Blitzkrieg?
This program hired Mexican laborers to fill the labor shortage during WWII.
What is the Bracero Program?
September 1, 1939- Hitler invades this country, officially beginning WWII.
What is Poland?
This is the dictator in Italy that America defeated.
What is Mussolini?
Character used to recruit women into the workforce.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
International organization that replaced the League of Nations.
What is the United Nations?
America was unable to help many jews because of these.
What are immigration quotas?
This allowed many dictators to come to power.
What is the Great Depression?
This was a group of Elite African American pilots.
What are the Tuskeegee Airman?
Japanese Americans were put into what because we thought they might be spies?
What is Internment Camps?
What was the Allied forces strategy to defeat Japan?
What is island hopping?
This was the secret project that created the atomic bomb and was partially based in Oak Ridge.
What is the Manhattan Project
Absolute control of government and strong sense of nationalism.
What is Fascism?
This is the meeting between FDR and Winston Church Hill to discuss plans for the war.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
Famous General that led invasion of Normandy.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
This was the term for conserving supplies to help win the war.
What is rationing?
This conference divided Germany into four parts.
What is Potsdam?