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System set up to draft young men into the American military
WOMEN’S AUXILIARY CORPS
(WAC’S)
Military positions created for women to serve in during WWII
SEGREGATED
Type of units that African Americans served in during WWII
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
What the United States had to focus on to win WWII
WAR
Type of goods that factories across the US began making
WOMEN
Gender of many of the workers in factories during WWII
A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH
Individual who proposed a march on Washington DC because of discrimination for
blacks in wartime jobs
OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
& DEVELOPMENT
Organization of scientist who did research for the US and the war effort
ATOMIC BOMB
The biggest creation of this organization
MANHATTAN PROJECT
The name for this top secret scientific group
OFFICE OF PRICE
ADMINISTRATION (OPA)
Wartime government agency created to control prices of goods from going up too
much
Wartime government agency created to make sure soldiers got the materials they
needed on the battlefields
Situation that Americans were forced into in which they were only allowed so much of
certain goods
Who Churchill and FDR both agreed was the biggest threat and they would focus on
first
WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
RATIONING
GERMANY
U-BOATS
What the Germans used to sink many of the Allied ships
CONVOY
System created in an attempt to protect Allied ships from German torpedoes
STALINGRAD
First major battle that was a turning point in WWII in Europe
SOVIET UNION
Nation that Hitler made a mistake of invading in 1944.
WEATHER
Was the biggest ally or help to the Soviet army when they were invaded by Germany
NORTH AFRICA
Site of the first fighting for Great Britain and US forces in Europe
TANK
Types of battles that were common here
GEN. GEORGE PATTON
Famous US military tank commander
GEN. ERWIN ROMELL
Famous German military tank commander
BENITO MUSSOLINI
Italian fascist leader eventually killed by his own people
JOSEPH STALIN
Soviet leader who was angry because the US and Great Britain were not taking the
pressure off his forces
SECOND FRONT
What Stalin wanted the other Allies to open up
TUSKEGEE AIRMEN
Famous all black US aircrew that fought in Italy
OPERATION OVERLORD
Codename for the Allied invasion of Europe through France
DWIGHT EISENHOWER
Was the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe; planned invasion of Europe
NORMANDY
Actual site of the invasion of Europe by Allied forces
D-DAY
Nickname given to this monumental day
4
Number of presidential terms FDR elected to
CHAPTER 17
THE UNITED STATES IN WWII
SELECTIVE SERVICE
BATTLE OF THE BULGE
Last ditch effort by Germany to break the Allied lines; it failed
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Location of large number of Jews across Europe that had been forced into slave labor
and many deaths
V-E DAY
Nickname given to the day of German surrender in WWII
HARRY TRUMAN
Became president upon the death of Franklin Roosevelt
JAPANESE
Who the US was trying to keep tied up until they could focus on
PHILIPPINES
Island nation that the US forces were forced to flee from the Japanese at early in the
war
GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
US leader at the Philippines who vowed to return
DOOLITTLE’S RAID
Small attack on the Japanese homeland made early in the war
BATTLE OF CORAL SEA
Important all aircraft battle between Japanese and US forces
BATTLE OF MIDWAY
Turning point battle in the Pacific from which the Japanese will never be on the
offensive again
“ISLAND HOPPING”
Strategy used in the Pacific theater to move towards the main island of Japan
KAMIKAZES
Strategy of using Japanese planes as human missiles
IWO JIMA
OKINAWA
Two major islands the US took as they approached Japan; fighting was very tough
ATOMIC BOMB
What President Truman decided to use against the Japanese instead of invading the
island
ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
Leader of the Manhattan Project
ENOLA GAY
Plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan
HIROSHIMA
Site of the first bomb being dropped
LITTLE BOY
Nickname given to the first bomb
NAGASAKI
Site of the second bomb being dropped
FAT MAN
Nickname of the second bomb
SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1945
Official date of the surrender of Japan
YALTA
Conference in which Stalin promised free elections in Europe
UNITED NATIONS
What FDR wanted to replace the League of Nations with
NUREMBERG TRIALS
Term for the German war crimes trials
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
US General who ran Japan for awhile and created a democratic, capitalistic
government
ROSIE THE RIVETER
The symbol of the importance of women to the US war effort on the home front
NORTH
Location to which many blacks moved during WWII for jobs
JAPANESE-AMERICANS
Group that was discriminated against the most during WWII
INTERNMENT CAMPS
What many Japanese-Americans were placed into during WWII
KOREMATSU V. US
Supreme Court case that said this was okay during wartime
G.I. BILL
Government program that allowed returning WWII vets to go to school paid for by
the government
COLD WAR
What began almost immediately after the end of WWII