World War 2 Causes
Japan, Germany, Italy
Larges amphibious invasion and battle in France that killed thousands of soldiers at a beach took place on June 6, 1941.
What is Normandy (D-Day)?
America joined the war after this event on December 7, 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor?
What were the two places we dropped bombs on in Japan?
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
A program that gave Mexican American opportunity to work and grow crops.
What is the Bracero Program?
President for most of the war?
Who is FDR?
Giving into aggressors demands in order to avoid war.
What is appeasement
FDR meets with this leader in secret after attack on Pearl Harbor. (Think Great Britain)
Who was Winston Churchill?
Presidents during World War 2
FDR, and Truman
What was Hitler’s famous strategy for attacking called
Blitzkrieg
Name for project that created the atomic bombs.
What is the Manhattan Project?
Chancellor of Germany
Who is Adolf Hitler?
September 1, 1939 Hitler invades this country, officially beginning WW2?
What is Poland?
Due to Japan's aggressive acts in Indochina, the U.S had cut off trade of in July 1941?
A resource that Japan needed much of.
What is oil?
They filled in jobs that men usually filled during World War 2
Who are women and African Americans?
This was the site of a major battle between the Soviet Union and Germany. After over 2 million deaths, the Soviets would win.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Who is Winston Churchill?
Head of the Soviet Union.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Japan invaded this country as early as 1931.
What is Manchuria?
Group of African- American pilots.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
The act of limiting food per household so that more food could be sent to the war front.
What is rationing?
What was allied forces strategy to take over Japan?
What is Island Hopping?
Name for meeting in which Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met and agreed for the Soviet Union to cooperate with the Allied Powers in exchange for Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
What is the Tehran Conference?
Fascist dictator of Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
Absolute control of government, strong sense of nationalism.
What is Rise of Dictators/Fascism?
Three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, who declared war on the United States.
What is Germany and Italy?
The symbol for women in the work place. Was not at actual person.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
"Alligator" vessel that went on land and sea.
What is an amphtrac
This event tried former Axis members for various war crimes.
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
This woman was the director of the Women's Army Corps (WAC).
Who is Oveta Culp Hobby