WWII War at Home, Internment and Holocaust

Who transmitted code messages for the allies during WWII?

• women

• Navajo

• African Americans

What event changed the role of the US and led to us declaring war and sending troops into battle?

• attack on Pearl Harbor

• Lend-Lease Act

• Operation Torch

What is Genocide?

• prejudice, racism, hatred against Jews

• systematic attempt to eliminate an entire race

• organized attack on Jewish homes and businesses

This was a military tactic used by the US in the Pacific Theatre

• Blitzkreig

• Island-hopping

• Trench warfare

This was a major reason for dropping the atomic bomb on Japan

• promote US Isolationism

• destroy Japan's industrial centers and save American lives

• Scare Hitler

What was the purpose of rationing?

• increase supply of natural resources

• cause a shortage of crops

• provide supplies to the troops

Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the USA during WWII who were sent to camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior

• Cornelia Fort
• Japanese Internment
• Allied Powers
• Axis Powers

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Where did the largest land-sea-air invasion in world history take place?

• Hiroshima, Japan

• Normandy, France

• Nagasaki, Japan

• Berlin, Germany

What battle, fought in June 1942, was the first major victory for the United States in the Pacific. It marked a turning point in the war with Japan.

• Coral Sea

• Leyte Gulf

• Midway

• Pearl Harbor

Ration cakes were made as an alternative and didn't have any

• Eggs & sugar

• Milk & butter

• Milk, butter & eggs

• Sugar, milk, butter & eggs