World War II
The three countries who formed the Axis Powers
Who are Japan, Italy, and Germany?
Propaganda agency created during WWII
What is the Office of War?
Military strategy used by allied forces where they would take over an island and establish a military base.
What is Island Hoping?
Allied troops who used native language to keep messages a secret from Axis Powers
Who are Navajo Code Talkers?
Term for the systematic destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group
What is genocide?
Goal of the Manhattan Project
What was to develop an atomic bomb?
Countries that made up the Allied Powers during WWII
Who are GB, France, China, the Soviet Union, and the US?
Reasons for the Office of War during WWII
What is support for the war effort? (push for national security, enlist into the war, etc..)
Battle that was a turning point for Allied forces in the Pacific
What is the Battle of Midway?
African American Air force bomber unit who were highly skilled and effective in bombing raids
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen
Groups that were target during the Holocaust (name a least 3)
President who ordered the use of atomic bombs
Who was Harry Truman?
Reason Japan was upset with the United States before the attack on Pearl Harbor
What are embargos?
Contribution of women during WWII in the United States
What are they took on positions in the workforce (nurses, factory workers, etc..)
Event in the Pacific theater that saw American troops being treated brutally by the Japanese
What is the Bataan Death March?
Led to the desegregation of Air Force in 1948
What is Executive Order 9981?
Conditions in concentration camps
What is starvation, exhaustion, poor living conditions, and high death rates.
Ultimatum issued by the US, GB, and China that called for the unconditional surrender of Japan
What is the Potsdam Declaration?
Action that the Japanese took that pushed the United States into WWII
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Order that allowed Japanese Internment
What is Executive Order 9066?
The Allied invasion that led to the take back of France from the Axis Powers
What is D-Day?
Decision of the Supreme Court case Korematsu vs. US
What is the interment of Japanese Americans was a "military necessity?"
Troops who liberated concentration camps
Allied forces, specifically: US, Britain, Canada, and the Soviet Union
Who are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Official spark of WWII
What is the German invasion of Poland?
President who signed the order of Japanese Internment
Who is President FDR?
Commander of the invasion of German-occupied France
Who was President Eisenhower?
Japanese American rights that were violated by the United States during internment
What are the 4th and 14th Amendment Rights?
Reason for large influx of Jewish immigrants out of Europe and into allied countries during 1933-1945
What is to escape persecution?
Affect of the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan
What was Japan accepted American terms for surrender?