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In order to buy goods from a store during WWII, citizens had to have what?

Ration Coupon

100

Strategy used in the war by the US to take only the islands that got us closer to the island of Japan?

Island Hopping

100

Who was the new Prime Minister of Britain during WWII?

Winston Churchill

100

What happen to Hitler at the end of WWII?

He commited suicide in his bunker

100

What was the official policy of the US at the start of WWII?

Neutral

200

Nickname for women who went into the workforce during WWII?

Rosie the Riveter

200

Where did the Japanese surprise attack the US on December 7, 1941?

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

200

Who was the Fascist leader of Italy during WWII?

Benito Mussolini

200

The secret project of building the first atomic bomb is known as what?

Manhatten Project

200

How did the US assists the Allies before the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Lend Lease Act

300

DAILY DOUBLE

The Bracero Program brought in what group of people to work on the farms during WWII?

Mexican-Americans

300

What battle was considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific because Japan took a heavy loss in naval power?

Battle of Midway
300
On June 6, 1943, the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy to start a two front war against the Nazis?  What is this battle known as?

D-Day (Battl of Normandy)

300

Harry S Truman ordered the use of the first Atomic Bomb to be dropped on what city?

Hiroshima 

300

What group of people did the Nazis mainly target during the Holocaust?

Jews

400

What group was placed in internment camps during WWII in the US?

Japanese Americans

400

What group did the US use to hide our communications from the Japanese?

Navajo Inidans

400

Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?

The black fighter pilots who flew in Europe

400

DAILY DOUBLE

The second atomic bomb was dropped on what city?

Nagasaki

400

What solved the Great Depression?

The spending in WWII

500

Who was the new leader of the NAACP during WWII that threatened a strike, but worked out a deal to get the President to look into discrimination cases?

Phillip Randolph

500

Who was the Overall Commander in the Pacific during WWII?

Douglas MacArthur

500

Adolf Hitler became popular in Germany after he published his book "Mein Kamph" from jail where he blamed the Jews for their problems.  What does the translation of this title?

"My Struggle"

500

The mistrust between the US and the Soviet Union after WWII will begin the start of what era?

The COLD WAR

500

Who was the President of the United States during the Great Depression and the start of WWII?

Franklin D Roosevelt