World War II Events
This "Day of Infamy" in 1941 brought the United States into World War II after a surprise attack by Japan.
What is Pearl Harbor?
He served as the President of the United States during most of World War II.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Treaty of Versailles
The Japanese city that was the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945.
What is Hiroshima?
This term describes the efforts on the part of those not fighting in the war to support the war effort from home.
What is the home front?
Name given to the June 6, 1944, Allied invasion of Normandy, France.
What is D-Day?
This leader took over as U.S. President after Roosevelt's death in 1945 and made the decision to use atomic weapons against Japan.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
This executive order in 1942 led to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The second Japanese city destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 9, 1945.
What is Nagasaki?
The systematic genocide of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II is known as this.
What is the Holocaust?
Britain and France attempted to avoid war by allowing Hitler to annex Czechoslovakia and Austria.
What is Appeasement?
The Soviet leader who was a key figure in the Allied victory and participated in major wartime conferences.
Who is Josef Stalin?
This act allowed the U.S. to supply Allied nations with war material on a "cash-and-carry" basis.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
The day celebrated to mark the end of World War II in Europe.
What is V-E Day?
This campaign by Japan involved pilots crashing their planes into enemy targets deliberately.
What is Kamikaze?
A secret project to develop the atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The coalition of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
What is Axis?
??This 1944 strategy aimed to achieve victory in Europe while also fighting for civil rights for African Americans at home.
What is the “Double V Campaign”?
The places where Jews and other persecuted groups were imprisoned and killed during the Holocaust.
What are Concentration Camps?
Name of the Supreme Court Decision which made it legal to incarcerate American Citizens indefinitely during war because of their ethnical and/or racial heritage
What is Korematsu v. U. S.
A 1921-22 conference aimed at naval disarmament and the prevention of war.
What is the Washington Naval Conference?
Britain, France (until it fell to the Nazis), the United States, and the Soviet Union (after they were attacked by Germany).
A plan in 1924 to solve the World War I reparations problem that Germany had to pay, which stabilized the German currency and economy.
What is the Dawes Plan?
The day that is celebrated to mark the end of World War II in the Pacific.
What is V-J Day?
??This U.S. government agency was responsible for disseminating propaganda and information during World War II.
What is the Office of War Information?
This term describes a new German warfare strategy, a "lightning war," featuring rapid, powerful attacks and combining air forces and mechanized troops.
What is Blitzkrieg?
This international organization was established in 1945 to prevent future conflicts.
What is the United Nations?
These laws were passed in the mid-1930s to prevent U.S. involvement in future overseas wars.
What are the Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937?
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
The agency tasked with overseeing the production of war materials during World War II.
What is the War Production Board?
American and Philippine soldiers were slaughtered by the Japanese while on a lengthy march to a POW camp.
What is the Battan Death March
A Slogan from FDR's famous speech where he pledged that the U.S. would help arm freedom loving nations against the Axis powers.
What is the Arsenal of Democracy?
This 1928 pact attempted to make war illegal as a policy for solving international disputes.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
??The conference where Truman, Churchill, and Stalin decided the post-war fate of Germany in 1945. Also, this conference is named after a city in Germany
What is the Potsdam Conference?
This group, active before the U.S. entry into World War II, opposed American intervention in the conflict.
What is the America First Committee?