The belief that government should concentrate on domestic problems before foreign ones
What is Isolationism?
100
There weren't enough jobs, money, or food during this time period and conditions pushed the American people toward isolationism.
The Great Depression
100
The United States naval base in Hawaii that on December 7th, 1941 was attacked by the Japanese. This made the United States get into the war.
What is Pearl Harbor?
100
Allied power headed by Josef Stalin
What is the Soviet Union?
100
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) fought against this in the workplace
What is discriminatory hiring practices?
200
When government has total control of every aspect of an individual's life.
What is Totalitarianism?
200
Serving in the military and war production jobs caused unemployment to ________________ below _______%
What is fall below 1%?
200
The Island Hopping campaign was bloody with large losses because of this reason
Japanese forces would rather die than surrender or lose.
200
Allied power invaded then occupied by German forces
What is France?
200
Riots directed toward Mexican Americans in LA in 1943
What are the Zoot Suit Riots?
300
When the government is more important than the individual
What is Fascism?
300
The process of limiting the use of resources and the demand for resources during wartime
What is rationing?
300
D-Day was an important turning point in the war because it allowed the Allies to position forces to liberate this country
What is France?
300
Small country with limited resources that was looking to expand their territory
What is Japan?
300
President who made the decision to deploy the Atomic Bomb in Japan
Who is Harry Truman?
400
The act of giving in to dictatorial powers to avoid conflict
What is appeasement?
400
This was the peace agreement at the end of World War I that punished Germany and forced them to pay reparations
The Treaty of Versailles
400
A secret group of scientists tasked with the creation of the Atomic Bomb
What was the Manhattan Project?
400
Name one (or both if you are able) of the cities in Japan on which the United States dropped the Atomic Bombs?
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
400
Country divided into 4 territories by the Allies at the end of WWII
What is Germany?
500
Designed to allow the Government to get "loans" from the American people. The sale of these was highly promoted in WWII propaganda.
What are War Bonds?
500
Panic after the bombing of Pearl Harbor caused the United States Government to wrongfully imprison __________________-________________ , known as ______________________
Who are Japanese-Americans and what is Japanese Internment?
500
Limited the ability of workers to strike while holding war production jobs.
What is the Smith-Connally Act?
500
The country that Germany invaded that began WWII in Europe.
What is Poland?
500
Country not allowed to have an army (even to this day)