A foreign policy approach that rejects involvement with other nations.
What is isolationism?
100
The member of the Axis Powers that attacked the U.S. on its own soil.
What is Japan?
100
The Axis Power that the U.S. decided to first focus on defeating; the "prime enemy."
What is Germany?
100
The weapon dropped in 1945 that finally led to Japan's surrender.
What is the atomic bomb?
100
Worked in clerical jobs and defense factories; departure from idea that women (especially married women) should not work.
What is the role of women in WWII?
200
America did not want to be entangled and weakened by international affairs.
What is the reason that the U.S. did not join the League of Nations.
200
The two U.S. President who served during WWII.
What is FDR and Truman?
200
The first theater of battle in the European front in 1942, where the U.S. went up against the "Desert Fox," General Rommel, from Germany.
What is North Africa?
200
The turning point in the Pacific front.
What is the Battle of Midway?
200
Places that Japanese, and some Italian and German, American citizens and residents were sent during WWII.
What is internment camps?
300
The province that Japan invaded in 1931, causing American frustration.
What is Manchuria? (Province of China)
300
The member of the Grand Alliance who was defeated by Germany's blitzkrieg strategy in 1940?
What is France?
300
The major battle in 1944 that opened a second front in Germany. After this battle, the U.S. moved towards Berlin from the West, while the Soviets closed in from the East.
What is D-Day? (or, Operation Overlord)
300
The U.S.'s strategy as it moved through the Pacific Ocean, aiming to ultimately reach mainland Japan.
What is island hopping?
300
Suspicion of loyalty to Japan - in case of invasion. fear of spies and proximity to strategic areas, and racism
What are reasons Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps?
400
America's response to war breaking out in Europe in 1939, when Germany invaded Poland.
What is the Lend-Lease Act? (or, lending weapons to the Allies)
400
The three countries that made up the Axis Powers.
What is Japan, Germany, and Italy?
400
The turning point in the European front in WWII; a battle not fought by the U.S.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
400
The final battle of WWII, in which the U.S. secured land that would enable it to launch an invasion of Japan.
What is Battle of Okinawa?
400
The glamorous symbol of working women in the U.S. during WWII.
What is Rosie the Riveter?
500
Japan's ultimate response in 1941, after America refused to re-open the trade of raw materials, like oil, after Japan went to war with China.
What is Pearl Harbor?
500
The four countries that made up the Grand Alliance.
What is the U.S., France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union?
500
The final battle of the European front. During this battle, Hitler committed suicide and Germany finally surrendered.
What is the Battle of Berlin?
500
The two cities in Japan that the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on in 1945.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
500
Acceptance of working women
Prevention of “careless words”
Buying war bonds
Growing own food
Working in defense factories
Joining army