World War II Vocabulary

Home project raising about one third of the nation’s vegetables during World War II

• anti-Semitism
• carpet bombing
• rationing
• victory gardens

_{Agency set up to boost Americans’ patriotism and sense of participation in the war effort}

• House Unamerican Acts Committee
• Office of War Information
• Executive Order 9066
• Nuremberg Trials

Permitted military commanders to require Japanese Americans to relocate to interior internment camps with primitive and crowded conditions away from Western coastal regions

• anti-Semitism
• Executive Order 9066
• war bonds
• rationing

Forced march of over 10,000 American Prisoners

• Bataan Death March
• Nuremberg Trials
• House Unamerican Acts Committee
• Battle of Midway

Discrimination and often violent hostility towards Jews

• Nuremberg Trials
• Executive Order 9066
• war bonds
• anti-Semitism

Regulating the amount of goods a consumer can obtain

• Office of War Information
• Bataan Death March
• rationing
• war bonds

Nazi leaders were charged as war criminals

• House Unamerican Acts Committee
• Executive Order 9066
• Battle of Leyte Gulf
• Nuremberg Trials

Turning point that allowed the allies to take the offensive in the Pacific

• Bataan Death March
• Battle of Midway
• carpet bombing
• Battle of Leyte Gulf

One of the U.S. commanders that invaded North Africa and Sicily; commanded the U.S. 3rd Army

• Dwight Eisenhower
• George Patton
• Erwin Rommel
• Harry Truman

Dictator of Nazi Germany

• Erwin Rommel
• John J. Pershing
• Neville Chamberlain
• Hitler