Home Front
This group joined the workforce in large numbers after the draft sent men to fight abroad.
(Section 4)
Women
What were the two Japanese cities that were destroyed by atomic bombs in 1945?
(Section 6)
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What did Hitler do when the Soviets invaded Berlin?
(Section 5)
He committed suicide
America was forced to enter the war after the Japanese attacked which American naval base?
(Section 2)
Pearl Harbor
This operation involved the use of a corpse to create a fake identity, tricking the Germans into moving their army to a different location and opening Italy for invasion. It's also Ms. Znaniecki's favorite operation.
(Section 5)
Operation Mincemeat
The outbreak of World War II and switch to wartime production boosted the economy enough to end which major economic crisis?
(Section 4)
The Great Depression
The main strategy used in the Pacific in which American forces would capture one island at a time before moving on to the next was called what?
(Section 6)
Island-hopping
What is the term for the German war strategy that means "lightning war"?
(Section 1)
Blitzkreig
Executive Order 9066 targeted all people of which descent to place them into internment camps?
(In-class activity)
Japanese
What was the name of the secret government project that developed the atomic bombs used in Japan?
(Section 6)
Manhattan Project
Two ways that everyday Americans could contribute to the war effort was through the purchase of ______ ______ and rationing _______.
(Section 4)
War Bonds; food/fuel
Where were American forces first sent to fight when they entered the war?
(Section 2)
French Morocco (Africa)
Racial supremacy, fascist government, and military expansionism were all part of which world leader's radical ideology?
(Section 1)
Adolf Hitler
The "Big 3" met multiple times during the war. It was made up of the leaders of the Allied nations - Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and which other world leader?
(Section 2)
Joseph Stalin
Operation Overlord is also known as what?
(Section 5)
D-Day
The "Double V Campaign" asked Black Americans to fight two separate wars in the 1940s - what were those two wars?
(Section 4)
1. Against the Nazis/fascism abroad
2. Against racial discrimination at home
The firebombing and killing of 100,000 civilians in which Japanese city offers an example of all-out war?
(Section 6)
Tokyo
Appeasement was a diplomatic policy of Britain and France that allowed which country to annex Austria and Czechoslovakia, with the promise that they would end further aggression?
(Section 1)
Germany
During which conference was Germany split into 4 separate parts occupied by the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the United States?
(Section 5)
Potsdam Conference
In Operation Barbarossa, Hitler broke his promise of nonaggression to Stalin as the German army invaded which country?
(Section 1)
Soviet Union
What was the term used to describe Americans' initial approach to conflict when World War II first broke out?
(Section 1)
Isolationism
What was one detail that internment camp survivor George Takei remembered during his interview?
(In-class activity)
Barbed wire, sentry towers, lousy food, saying the Pledge of Allegiance, having to close the shades on the train, etc.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a secret agreement between Hitler and which country? The pact promised to split Poland and for nonaggression between the two countries.
(Section 1)
Soviet Union
Hitler's plan as part of the Holocaust to systematically kill as many Jews as possible and force the rest to work themselves to death in concentration camps was referred to as what?
(Section 3)
The "Final Solution"
Which bill passed by the United States after the war promised returning veterans unemployment benefits, postsecondary education, and home ownership?
(Section 6)
G.I. Bill