WWII Causes to Homefront

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What did dictator Hitler do that ended Appeasement Policy and caused WW2 in Europe to begin in 1939?

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Hitler invaded Poland

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What word describes America's policy at the start of WW2 in 1939?

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Neutrality

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How did the US try and stop Japan's aggressive expansionism in China? REMEMBER-this plan backfired badly as it was the reason Japan planned the surprise attack on the US in retaliation?

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Ordered an oil embargo or trade sanction

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What happened on December 7, 1941 that will make it a "day that will live in infamy" (-FDR speech) and will lead to the US to declare war and enter WW2 in 1941?

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The Japanese surprised attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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Select President Roosevelt's Executive Order that resulted in Japanese Americans being interned in camps after the Pearl Harbor attack and led to the SCOTUS constitutional ruling in Kiramatsu v. US case?

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Executive Order 9066

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Name the three enemy countries that formed the alliance known as the Axis powers. In the US, we will be leery of immigrants from these countries!

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Germany, Japan, Italy

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What act required men to register for the draft that helped the US quickly raise troops needed for war?

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Selective Service Act

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During WWII, the US military was still strictly _________ as we know from the Tuskegee Airmen's history.

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segregated

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During WW2, women could enlist in the________________ for a non combat role in the military changing their traditional role. Remember some men thought it was WACKED that women could be in the military now!

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Women’s Army Corps

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Who was Rosie the Riveter?

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a representation of American women that went to work in factories during WWII