world war two review

What is Cash and Carry Policy?

• U.S. paid for countries to get the supplies they needed and got to use U.S. ships

• Countries had to pay in cash and pick up goods using their own ships

• Countries had to pay in cash and U.S. ships could be used to transport.

What is the Lend-Lease Act?

• The U.S. would lend or lease weapons that attacked the U.S.

• the U.S. would lend or lease weapons to countries vital to the defense of the U.S.

• Countries had to pay in cash and pick up goods using their own ships

What are Victory Gardens?

• The government would come in and steal all the crops you own
• Citizens planted gardens for their own consumption, which left more food for the troops
• This is was food for the unemployed people of the Great Depression
• Crops grown only to be given to the troops

What are rationing?

• opening up the supply of food for everyone, no need to cut back
• restricting the amount of an item an individual can have due to limited supply
• Troops had to grown or make their own food
• No need-there is a McDonalds or Taco Bell right around the corner

What is a draft?

• System used for choosing people from the population to serve in military.
• Choosing to sign up for the military
• No need to sign up for the military, there is no war
• Hire people to fight in the war for you

Who are the Tuskegee Airman?

• Group of German fighters during World War Two
• Name for a group of Japanese-American fighters who left the U.S. to fight for Japan during WW2
• First African American Air Force Group-flew 200 missions without losing a single member
• Members of a special group that killed Hitler

Who is Rosie the Riveter?

• Japanese women used to help get the Japanese forces ready for war
• American woman who worked in a factory while her boyfriend was at war, she appeared on posters, magazines, and newspapers
• German women, created, to help mobilize Germany for the start of WW2
• Has no significant purpose/I don't know who she is

Why did the U.S. join the war?

• Pearl Orleans
• sinking of the Lusitania 
• Pearl Harbor 
• imperialism 

Leader of the Soviet Union 

• Churchill 
• Roosevelt 
• Stalin 
• Trotsky 

Japan, Germany, and Italy where part of which alliance?

• Allied

• anxious

• Axis

• anxious