The Axis Powers
These 3 countries formed the Axis Powers?
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
The most major turning point in the European Theater where Allies invade Northern France to push the Germans back.
What was D-Day (aka Operation Overlord)?
A use of media, including posters, advertisements, entertainment, even children's cartoons, to gain public support for a cause and to convince people to think similarly about a topic.
What is propaganda?
The U.S. President from 1932-1945.
Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
A famous author was also a political cartoonist who was highly critical of the FDR administration before the U.S. joined WWII.
Who was Dr. Seuss?
What was Germany?
The last major battle in the Pacific on an island 350 miles outside of mainland Japan.
What was the Battle of Okinawa?
THE most important and defining factor of the U.S. homefront, and ultimately led to the Allied victory.
What was the mobilization of industry?
Leader of a committee to oversee wartime production and later became President.
Who was Harry S. Truman?
A group of Native Americans who worked in military intelligence to give the U.S. a decisive advantage in the Pacific Theater.
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
Japanese expansionism and a U.S. oil embargo led to a surprise attack at this infamous location in this year.
Where was Pearl Harbor in 1941?
What was Operation Torch?
What was the Bracero Program?
This policy provided military armaments, among other things, to countries deemed to be "vital" to U.S. interests.
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
This secret undertaking started the development of the atomic bomb in the United States, and was recommended for implementation by Albert Einstein.
What was the Manhattan Project?
Japanese balloon bombs were sent to damage Americans at home, and several were detonated at a church picnic in this state
Where was Oregon?
The last major battle in the European Theater that is also one of the top two deadliest battles in American history
What was the Battle of the Bulge?
A landmark Supreme Court case that ruled in favor of Japanese internment during WWII, despite the fact that 2/3rds of those interned were U.S. citizens.
What was Korematsu v. U.S.?
Future U.S. President who was in charge of overseeing Operation Overlord.
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
The emperor of Japan during WWII.
Who was Emperor Hirohito?
What was Operation Downfall?
A combat unit that was composed of mostly Japanese Americans and is still the most decorated unit of its size in U.S. history.
What was the 442nd Regimental Combat Team?
What was the Office of Civil Defense?
Group of all black Air Force pilots who were exemplary in WWII.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?