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A racist, German form of fascism based on extreme nationalism and the creation of a superior race?
What is Nazism?
100
This group of people was required to work more as soldiers were taken oversea to fight.
Who were Women?
100
Allied strategy to move across the Pacific Ocean, closer to mainland Japan
What is Island Hopping
100
V-E Day stands for _________ and was celebrated after the Soviets took Berlin and Hitler _________.
What is Victory in Europe Day, committed suicide
100
Code name of the development of the atomic bomb
What is Manhattan Project
200
The attack on this naval base led the U.S. to declare war on Japan
What is Pearl Harbor
200
In order to send enough supplies to the troops and to keep life at home fair, ________ was implemented. Families also planted ________ to grow extra food.
Rationing and Victory Gardens
200
The battle at this island was the turning point of the war in the Pacific. The American forces devastated Japanese forces here.
What is Midway
200
This organization was created at the end of WWII to maintain peace and protect the world from aggressive dictators. American joined it (unlike the previous League of Nations)
What is the United Nations?
200
Lend-Lease Act did this
U.S. would lend or lease arms and other supplies to any country whose defense was vital to U.S. interests (mainly Britain)
300
The act of aggression by Germany that OFFICIALLY started World War II in September 1939
What is the Invasion of Poland?
300
Japanese Americans were relocated to internments because of possible disloyalty due to this government command.
Executive Order 9066
300
What was the purpose of D-Day?
What is Push German forces out of France and liberate Paris
300
The Marshall Plan's main goal
What is Rebuild Europe to keep it from communist influence
300
The Holocaust was the systematic murder of _____ (#) people, including ____ (#) Jews.
11 million, 6 million
400
Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor. Allowed Germany to gain territory before the war without interference from France or Britain.
What is Appeasement
400
This government agency produced propaganda to promote the war effort at home and abroad.
What is Office of War Information
400
1. The two cities on which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs. 2. Reason for using bombs
What are 1. Hiroshima and Nagasaki 2. Prevent large loss of U.S. soldiers if conventional warfare were to be used
400
Supreme Commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific. Officially accepted Japan’s surrender and oversaw the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951
What is Douglas MacArthur
400
Name the two generals at Normandy
Omar Bradley and George Patton
500
Name 3 Axis countries and the leader of each. Name 3 Allied countries and the leader of each.
What is Germany (Hitler), Italy (Mussolini), and Japan (Hirohito). U.S. (Roosevelt), Great Britain (Churchill), and Soviet Union (Stalin).
500
This government agency decided which companies would convert to war production. It also organized the importation of temporary laborers from Mexico under the _______ Program
What is War Production Board, Bracero
500
The forcible transfer of 60,000 to 80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war in the Philippines. Thousands died before they could reach their destination after enduring 80 miles of physical abuse, starvation, dehydration, and exhaustion.
What is Bataan Death March
500
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in February 1945 to discuss the postwar world. Name the event, what was to be done with Germany, and the problem that later surfaced with this decision.
What is Yalta Conference. Germany would be divided into four zones occupied by U.S. Britain, France, and Soviet Union. Cold War hostilities made the division of Germany a tense democracy vs. communism situation.
500
1. All-black squadron of pilots who fought in Italy 2. Native Americans recruited to transmit secret tactical messages in their native languages 3. Volunteer group charged with defending China against Japanese forces
What is 1. Tuskegee Airmen 2. Navajo Code Talkers 3. Flying Tigers