Rise of Dictators
A government in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people
What is Totalitarianism?
American military base attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941
What was the battle at Pearl Harbor?
Citizens lend money to government in order to help war effort and profit.
What were the War Bonds?
African American squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe during World War II
What were Tuskegee Airmen?
The invasion on Germany at Normandy Beaches
What was D-Day?
Head of the Soviet Union in 1924
Who is Joseph Stalin?
United States Army group established during World War II so that women could serve in non-combat roles
What was Women's Army Corps?
Government issued coupon books given to people in order to limit the amount of certain goods they could buy.
What was Rationing?
The Navy cook that shot at Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor.
Who is Dorie Miller?
What were the names of the two atomic bombs dropped by the U.S. on Japan?
What were Little Boy and Fat Man.
a political movement that stressed extreme nationalism and autocratic rule; driven by Benito Mussolini
What is fascism?
The Act that gave the war supplies to any nation deemed “vital to the defense of the United States.”
What was the Lend-Lease Act?
20 million of these were producing over a third of all vegetables consumed in the U.S.
What were Victory Gardens?
The U.S. would not let African Americans fight along side of white Americans.
What is segregation?
World War II strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others
What was island-hopping?
U.S. president at the beginning of WW2.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
The Oklahoma and The Arizona.
What were two ships that sank in the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Person in campaign poster directed towards women in order to promote women's aid in the war.
Who was Rosie the Riveter?
A leader with an agressive personality that commanded U.S. tanks during World War I and quickly demonstrated his skill at leading mobile fighting units. During World War II, he led U.S. troops in North Africa and Europe.
Who is General George Patton?
Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during World War II
What was a Kamikaze?
Leader of Italy during WW2.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
World War II battle that took place between Japan and America in which Japan lost 322 planes 4 aircraft carriers.
What was the Battle of Midway?
What was Executive Order 9066
FDR designated certain areas as War Zones which allowed the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans.
The Allies' strategy where they would focus on finishing the war in Europe before trying to end the war in Asia
What was the Europe First strategy?
The name of the research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.
What was the Manhattan Project?