US Neutrality
This set of laws was designed to keep the US out of international incidents.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
The United States used this strategy in their fight against Japan in the Pacific.
What is island-hopping?
Due to men leaving to fight in WWII, this group began doing jobs they hadn't traditionally done prior to WWII.
Used to spread ideas or statements in order to help a cause, political leader, government, etc.
What is propaganda?
The development of this weapon was used by the US to win the war in the Pacific.
This allowed Britain and France to buy goods from the US if they paid in cash and transported goods on their own ships.
What is cash-and-carry?
This invasion in France is largely considered a huge turning point of WWII.
What is D-Day? (invasion of Normandy)
These were certificates sold by the US government to citizens to help fund the war.
What are war bonds?
This German-born scientists helped persuade Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The codename for a top secret effort to develop the atomic bomb in the United States.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This gave the US the ability to loan war supplied to nations deemed "vital to the defense of the US".
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Japanese forced Americans and Filipinos to walk 100 miles with little food or water, most dying or being killed along the way.
What is the Bataan Death March?
What is rationing?
Accepting the demands of an aggressor to avoid conflict.
What is appeasement?
This president ultimately made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Due to the threat of Japanese aggression, the US placed this on Japan.
What is an embargo?
This battle in the Pacific was considered a major turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Midway?
Americans began planting their own vegetable to increase available food during rationing.
What are Victory Gardens?
What is internment?
Issued by FDR, this led to Japanese Americans being sent to camps.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This date marks the end of US neutrality and the country's entry into WWII.
When is December 7, 1941? (Pearl Harbor)
These African American fighter pilots are famous for shooting down over 200 enemy planes.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
The idea by African Americans that referred to 2 victories, one in war and the other at home.
What is the Double V Campaign?
This African American US Army soldier received a Congressional Medal of Honor, but not until 1996.
Who is Vernon Baker?
This Supreme Court case ultimately ruled that the internment of Japanese Americans was legal and consitutional.
What is Korematsu v US?