Unit 11 World War II

A law passed in 1941 that allowed the US to ship arms and other supplies without immediate payment to nations fighting the Axis powers.

• Cash and Carry

• Lend Lease Act

• Neutrality Acts

• Atlantic Charter

The US declared war on the Axis Powers after the Japanese bombed this US naval base.

• Pearl Harbor

• Fort Stewart

• Fort Knox

• Paris Island

The US program to develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II.

• Chicago Project

• Bronx Project

• Manhattan Project

• Los Angeles Project

Policy adopted by the United States in 1939 to preserve neutrality while aiding the Allies. Britain and France could buy goods from the United States if they paid in full and transported them.

• Lend Lease Act

• Atlantic Charter

• Neutrality Act

• Cash and Carry

1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific

• Battle of Midway

• Pearl Harbor

• Hiroshima

• Battle of the Bulge

Allied invasion of Nazi occupied France on June 6, 1944

• P-Day

• D-Day

• I-Day

• B-Day

Marked the end of the war in Europe

• Fall of Berlin

• Fall of Paris

• Battle of Stalingrad

• Battle of Britain

Forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the U.S. of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who had lived on the Pacific coast.

• Internment of Japanese Americans

• Holocaust

• Genocide

• Trail of Tears

America's leading black labor leader who called for a march on Washington D.C. to protest factories' refusals to hire African Americans, which eventually led to President Roosevelt issuing an order to end all discrimination in the defense industries.

• Martin Luther King

• Malcolm X

• Fredrick Douglas

• A. Philip Randolph

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

• Hiroshima

• Nagasaki

• Tokyo

• Shanghai