WWII Battles
What is the name of the battle (attack) that brought us in the war?
What is Pearl Harbor?
The President of the United States during most of World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Prior to the U.S. declaration of was the U.S. aided England/Churchill with ships using the _________ ___________ Act
What is Lend Lease?
The approximate number of Jews that were killed by the German Holocaust in World War II.
What is about 6 million?
What is it called when people planted vegetables so that goods could to to soldiers overseas?
What is A victory garden?
What was the turning point in the Pacific Theater of War?
What is Island Hopping?
Which president dropped the atomic bomb on Japan?
Who is Truman?
The strategy in the pacific that allowed the U.S. to take remove Japanese strongholds?
What are Island Hopping?
What were the places called where Jews were held?
What is a concentration camp?
What a it called when someone is only allowed so much of a scarce good per month so that left overs can go to the soldiers?
What is Rationing?
What is the name given to the U.S. defeat and treatment on the Philippine Islands ?
What is Bataan Death March?
The lead U.S. General in the Pacific theater of war.
Douglas MacArthur
The Indian tribe that allowed provided their language as a critical war code?
Navajo?
Why did Hitler want to eliminate Jews?
He believed they were to blame for financial issues, the fall of Germany, and believed them to be inferior
What was executive order 9066?
What is the internment of Japanese-Americans?
What is the name given to the Allied invasion of France to fight the Nazis?
What is Invasion of Normand/DDAY?
The Commander of Allied forces in Europe, led the DDAY invasion and would later become President.
Who is Dwight D Eisenhower?
What is the significance of Vernon Baker
First African American to receive the MOH (1996)
Name 3 other groups other than Jews that the Holocaust persucuted?
What are Homosexuals, Gypsies, Disabled or Mentally ill, Communists, and Socialists?
What is it called when citizens loan the government money knowing they can collect interest after the war?
What war bond?
What two cities did the U.S. drop the atomic bombs on?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Communist leader of the Soviet Union during WWII.
Who is Josef Stalin?
Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
What is the oil embargo?
Name two countries that had concentration camps
What is Germany, France, Italy, Poland?
What two groups of people were given jobs since most men were at war?
Women and Minorities