WWII
Leaders
Leaders
This US Commander defended the Philippines.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This 1934 tariff plan increased trade & relations with Latin America, helped with the Great Depression and prepared nations to fight together if the dictators came to town.
What is the Reciprocal Trade Agreement?
This fictional character was created to represent women in the workforce during WWII.
Who was Rosie the Riveter?
This was the turning point battle in North Africa.
What is El Alamein?
Name the 3 main countries on the Axis side during WWII.
Germany, Japan and Italy
The leader/ Dictator of Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini
1933 international meeting in London to discuss how nations could fix the Great Depression. FDR didn't agree
What is the London Conference?
This group of African American pilots contributed greatly to the war efforts by escorting the bomber planes.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Radar is invented during this battle.
What is the Battle of Britain?
This international organization was created to help keep peace after WWII and to prevent another world war.
What is the United Nation?
The leader/ Dictator of Japan.
Who is Emperor Hirohito/Hideki Tojo
The turning point battle in the war when Germany was pushed back out of France. The Allies started winning the war.
What is D-Day/Operation Overlord ?
This man led the US Navy in the Pacific Theater.
Who is Admiral Nimitz?
This historical event occurred on December 7, 1941.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii?
This program allowed the US to aid Britain by getting around the Neutrality Act of 1935. US business made a lot of cash!
What is Cash and Carry?
He was the Supreme Allied Commander, Mastermind of the D-Day invasion and the 34th President of the United States
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This Congressional Committee Committee investigated the Merchants of Death Thesis
What is the Nye Committee?
This person was the 1st American representative to the United Nations.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt ?
During the Battle of the Bulge, the 101st Airborne Division was surrounded in this town and bravely defended important supply line roads.
What is Bastogne?
This meeting in 1940 changed the Monroe Doctrine and created Hemispheric Security to protect nations against European dictatorial aggression.
What is the Havana Conference?
The Prime Minister of Britain
Who is Winston Churchill?
Congressional validation of the Merchants of Death Thesis lead to these laws.
What are the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936 and 1937?
Which US President made the difficult decision to drop an atomic bomb on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
Harry Truman
This island held key Japanese airbase and was defended by troops protected in volcanic rock on Mt. Suribachi?
What is Iwo Jima?
This quiet Spanish town was bombed by the German Luftwaffe in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso painted a picture depicting the carnage.
What is Guernica?