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Mobilization
Retaking Europe
The Holocaust
The War in the Pacific
Social Impact of the War
100
required all males aged 21 to 36 to register for military service
What is the Selective Training and Service Act?
100
technique in which planes scattered large numbers of bombs over a wide area
What is carpet bombing?
100
descrimination or hostility, often violent, directed at people of the Jewish faith
What is anti-Semitism?
100
Battle in which the U.S. prevented the Japanese invasion of Australia
What was the Battle of the Coral See?
100
Mexican farm laborers brought to the U.S. to help in a shortage of American laborers
What is a bracero?
200
nickname given to soldiers, sailors, and aviators in the war?
What is a GI (Government Issue)
200
the day the invasion of Western Europe began
What was D-Day
200
places where political prisoners are confined, usually under harsh conditions
What is a concentration camp?
200
Japanese plane and pilot used in suicide flight
What is a kamikaze?
200
Spanish speaking neighborhood
What is barrio?
300
the office that served as a super-agency in the centralization of resources?
What is Office of War Mobilization?
300
German attack which pushed back U.S. First Army forming an indent in the Allied lines
What is Battle of the Bulge?
300
"night of the broken glass" a reference to the broken windows on Jewish shops
What was Kristallnacht?
300
battle on a tiny volcanic island, U.S. suffered 25,000 casualties
What was the Battle of Iwo Jima?
300
confined (happened to the Japanese-Americans)
What is internment?
400
Large, sturdy merchant ships that carried supplies or troops
What is a Liberty ship?
400
declaration of principles which guided the aims of the war, put together by Roosevelt and Churchill
What is the Atlantic Charter?
400
prison existing primarily for mass murder
What is a death camp?
400
battle started by Japanese to take island vital to the defense of Hawaii
What was the Battle of Midway?
400
group who believed in nonviolent techniques to end racism
What was the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)?
500
a home vegetable garden planted to add to the home food supply and replace farm produce sent to feed the soldiers
What is a victory garden?
500
meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin to plan the final defeat of Germany and decide the shape of postwar world
What was the Yalta Conference?
500
Government group who's job was to try to help people threatened by the Nazis
What was the War Refugee Board (WRB)?
500
top secret project to develop an atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
500
group of Native American Soldiers used to pass radio messages during the war
What were Navajo code talkers?