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World War II
Who was president during World War II?
What event started World War II in Europe?
What were the Axis nations during World War
II?
What was the Battle of Britain?
What country did Hitler invade in mid-1941?
What was the position of the U.S. during the
first two years of World War II?
What policy had strong support in the U.S.
during the first two years of World War II?
Identify the Lend-Lease Act.
Nothing, since this is the title card
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hitler invaded Poland
Germany, Italy, Japan
Hitler’s air attack on Great Britain
The Soviet Union
neutral
isolationism
Said the President could sell, lease, or lend military
equipment to countries who were fighting the Axis
powers
How did America’s policy towards Japan
1) Refused to recognize Japanese conquests in
change after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Asia
and China?
2) U.S. embargo on oil and steel exports to Japan
Why did U.S. get involved in World War II?
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
Who was the leader of Germany during World
Adolf Hitler
War II?
Who were the Allies in World War II?
Great Britain, Soviet Union, and United States
Who was the leader of Great Britain during
Winston Churchill
World War II?
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during
Joseph Stalin
World War II?
What strategy did the Allies follow?
Defeat Hitler first
What happened at
British defeated the Germans in North Africa; turning
El Alamein?
point of the war in the Middle East
What happened at the Battle of Stalingrad?
Soviets defeated the Germans; turning point of the war
in Europe on the eastern front
What happened at the Normandy landings or
Allied troops defeated the Germans; turning point of
D-Day?
the war in Europe on the western front
Who was commander of the Allied forces at the Dwight D. Eisenhower
D-Day invasion?
What was the turning point of the war in the
Battle of Midway
Pacific?
What was the Allied strategy in the Pacific?
Island hopping
What two Pacific islands did the Americans
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
invade to get closer to Japan?
How did the U.S. end the war in the Pacific?
Dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
During World War II, who took factory jobs
women
when the men went to war?
What image represented American women who Rosie the Riveter
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worked in factories during World War II?
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
What were the Nisei regiments?
What Native American language was used by
the U.S. military during World War II for
communication codes in the Pacific?
What international agreement set the rules for
the humane treatment of prisoners of war?
What happened on the Bataan Death March?
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What is genocide?
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What was the Holocaust?
What was Hitler’s “final solution”?
What were the Nuremberg Trials?
In 1948 what nation was founded by Jewish
settler living in Palestine?
How did the U.S. maintain an adequate supply
of products for the war effort?
How did the Roosevelt administration finance
World War II?
What African-American leader led the fight for
desegregation of the armed forces and equal
hiring in defense jobs?
What was the Selective Service Act?
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African-American flyers during World War II
Japanese-American regiments in World War II
Navajo
Geneva Convention
Many American POWs in the Philippines suffered
brutal treatment by their Japanese captors
The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial,
political, or cultural group
Nazi Germany’s systematic murder of European Jews
Exterminate (kill) all the Jews in Europe
Trials of Nazi leaders for war crimes
Israel
Rationing: each family received a monthly allowance
of essential items (sugar, gasoline, meat)
1) War bonds
2) Federal income tax
A. Philip Randolph
The law that set up the first peacetime draft in
American history
Put in internment camps, where they were made to
stay until the end of the war
1) Upheld the government’s right to act against
Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast
2) Upheld the policy to place Japanese-Americans
in internment camps
Promoted nationalism
What happened to most Japanese-Americans
during World War II?
How did the Supreme Court rule in Korematsu
v. United States?
What was the role of the American media and
entertainment industries during World War II?
Define nationalism.
Strong feeling of patriotism or devotion to one’s
country
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