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The event that entered the U.S. into WWII.
What was Pearl Harbor?
This group of Americans joined many military auxiliary groups and built war supplies during WWII.
Who are women?
The concept where countries put all of their resources into fighting a war.
What is total war?
A devastating bomb powered by nuclear fission that can destroy an entire city.
What is an atomic bomb?
What is neutrality/isolationism?
This group of Americans created & cracked codes during WWII.
Who are the Navajo?
The largest land & sea invasion in history where American forces started to liberate France from the Nazis.
What is D/Day or Operation Overlord?
The codename for the American atomic bomb project.
What was the Manhattan Project?
The political belief practiced by Axis dictators Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.
What is Fascism?
This famous air fighter pilot squadron comprised of all African Americans helped many American bombers reach their targets in Europe.
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Due to the constant production of wartime materials the American economy did this during WWII.
What is grow?
The president who ordered the dropping of 2 atomic bombs against Japan in WWII.
Who is Harry Truman?
An American policy where countries fighting in WWII could buy war supplies in cash and sail it back to their nations.
What is Cash and Carry?
Japanese Americans living alongside the Pacific Coast were unjustly sent here during WWII.
What is an internment camp?
The American strategy used to liberate Japanese occupied territory along the Pacific.
What is island hopping?
The Allied tactic of dropping many bombs over Axis civilian cities.
What is carpet bombing/firebombing?
An American policy where countries fighting in WWII could borrow war supplies and could pay the U.S. back after the war.
What is the Lend Lease Act?
The Executive Order that called for the relocation of 10,000 Japanese Americans living on the Pacific Coast during WWII.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The final battle of the Pacific War which scared U.S. military leaders away from invading Japan.
What is the Battle of Okinawa?
The name of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagaski.
What is Fat Man?