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100

 This devastating attack on a US naval base in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, directly led to America's entry into World War II.

Pearl Harbor

100

To conserve vital resources during the war, American citizens participated in this practice by planting gardens in their yards.

Victory Gardens

100

This crucial technology, initially developed in Britain, was significantly improved and mass-produced in the US, playing a vital role in naval warfare and submarine detection.

Radar

100

 This massive Allied invasion of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, is considered a major turning point in the European theater.

D-Day

100

This decisive naval battle in June 1942 is considered the turning point of the war in the Pacific, significantly weakening the Japanese fleet.

The Battle of Midway

200

Before officially entering the war, the US supported Allied nations through these types of things

Loaning money, selling goods


200
WW2 had this effect on the American economy after the Great Depression


It created a boom

200

This vehicle was designed for combat and transporting many troops. It became a well known car today

The Jeep

200

American forces faced their first major defeat against German forces in this winter offensive in Belgium in late 1944.

The Battle of the Bulge

200

American Marines famously raised the US flag on this strategically important island after a bloody battle in early 1945.

Iwo Jima

300

The Selective Service Act is this

The draft, requiring men 18-45 to register to possibly go to war

300

 Millions of American women entered the workforce during WWII, famously symbolized by this iconic figure.

Rosie the Riveter

300

American scientists and engineers worked on this top-secret project in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which ultimately led to the creation of atomic weapons.

The Manhattan Project

300

This American general served as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, overseeing the D-Day invasion and the subsequent liberation of Western Europe.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

300

 This American general led the US forces in the Southwest Pacific

Douglas MacArthur

400

America had this kind of attitude towards the war and the world at the beginning of WW2

Isolationist

400

This practice involved the government setting limits on the amount of certain goods civilians could purchase, ensuring fair distribution of scarce resources

Rationing

400
This kind of plane famously dropped the nuclear bombs on Japan during WW2

A B-29 Superfortress

400
This is the name of the day that the war was officially won in Europe (What day was it?)

V.E. Day

400

 The US employed this strategy of selectively attacking strategically important islands and bypassing others to advance towards Japan.

Island Hopping

500

These are the major countries in the Allies and Axis Powers (Name all of them)

Allies: Russia, France, GB, USA

Axis: Germany, Japan, Italy

500

Executive Order 9066 led to the forced relocation and internment of thousands of Americans of this descent on the West Coast.


Japanese Americans, internment camps

500

Robert J. Oppenheimer is famously quoted as saying this after the test of the first nuclear bomb

"I am become death, destroyer of worlds?

500

Where did the allies choose to attack first when it came to Europe and the Axis? Name the country and why they those that...

Libya in North Africa, and because they considered it and Italy to be the "Soft Underbelly" of Europe.

500

The use of these Japanese suicide pilots posed a significant threat to American naval vessels in the later stages of the Pacific War

Kamikaze Pilots