Axis and Allies
The faction the United States sided with in the war.
What are the Allies?
The group of people forced out of their homes and into camps for the duration of WWII.
Who are Japanese-Americans?
The Japanese surprise bombing of a major United States naval base in the Pacific.
What was Pearl Harbor?
The group of islands home to the largest U.S. naval base in the pacific. This is also a U.S. state.
What is Hawaii?
The faction Germany sided with in the war.
What is the Axis?
The Native American language used to create an unbreakable code in the war with Japan.
What is Navajo?
The combined Allied offensive to retake France from the Axis powers by landing on the beaches of Normandy.
What is D-Day?
The desert-filled region where the United States first fought on land in WWII.
What is North Africa?
The faction Italy sided with in the war.
What is the Axis?
The number of people sent to internment camps by the U.S. government.
120,000 people
The United States' strategy for gaining territory in the Pacific islands.
What is island hopping?
The largest country invaded by Japan during the war.
What is China?
The faction the Soviet Union sided with in the war.
The most famous battle in the Pacific that the code talkers took part in.
What is Iwo Jima?
The United States' turning point in the war in the Pacific that took place around a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific.
What is the Battle of Midway?
The ocean where the United States and Britain clashed with Germany while trying to send supplies to Allied forces.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The faction Switzerland sided with in the war.
Neither, Switzerland remained neutral.
The location that groups impacted by racism gather every year to remember internment.
What is Manzanar?
The country Germany invaded that marked their first major misstep in the war.
What is the Soviet Union?
The continent in the Pacific where the United States first turned back the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
What is Australia?