WWII Causes and Major Events
This surprise Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, led the U.S. to enter WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
These homegrown plots helped supplement food supplies during WWII.
What are Victory Gardens?
This executive order led to the internment of over 100,000 Japanese Americans.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This U.S. strategy aimed to prevent the spread of communism worldwide.
What is the Policy of Containment?
This WWII conference between the Allies shaped the postwar world.
What is the Yalta Conference?
These two Japanese cities were targeted by atomic bombs in August 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
These government-issued certificates helped finance the war effort and were repaid with interest.
What are War Bonds?
This secret research project produced the world’s first nuclear weapons.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This theory suggested that if one country fell to communism, its neighbors would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This Congressional committee investigated suspected communists in Hollywood and government.
What is HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities)?
Germany’s invasion of this country in 1939 directly triggered the start of WWII in Europe.
What is Poland?
These laws passed in the 1930s were meant to prevent U.S. involvement in future foreign wars.
What are the Neutrality Laws?
These Native American soldiers developed a secure communication system using their native language, which was never broken.
Who are the Code Talkers?
This U.S. policy pledged support for countries resisting communism, first applied in Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This couple was executed for allegedly passing nuclear secrets to the Soviets.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
This U.S. program provided military aid to Allied nations before America officially entered WWII.
What is the Lend-Lease Program?
FDR outlined this vision in 1941, including freedom of speech and freedom from want.
What are the Four Freedoms?
This group was the first all-Black fighter pilot unit in U.S. history.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
Winston Churchill used this metaphor to describe the division between communist and non-communist Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This 1946 Supreme Court case challenged segregation on interstate buses.
What is Morgan v. the Commonwealth of Virginia?
This 1938 agreement allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland in exchange for a promise of no further territorial demands.
What is the Munich Agreement?
This government agency coordinated the production of war materials during WWII.
What is the War Production Board (WPB)?
This all-Black women’s unit was responsible for delivering millions of pieces of mail in Europe.
What is the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion?
This U.S. plan offered aid to rebuild Europe and counter communism after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This domestic program by President Truman aimed to extend New Deal reforms.
What is the Fair Deal?