6f. WWII Vocabulary mhs

Japanese retaliation for embargo, resulted in U.S. entering WWII

• Pearl Harbor (December 7th, 1941)

• Battle of Midway

• D-Day (June 6th, 1944)

• Battle of the Bulge

Justification for War-Economic and political interdependence of nations, stop spread of totalitarian governments.

• True

• False

Victory Gardens-Support war effort by increasing food supply.

• True

• False

Took on new roles to support the war effort, joined nurse cadets & worked in factories to keep up production.

• Women's war effort

• Men's war effort

• Mexico's war effort

• Canada's war effort

violated liberties of Japanese-American citizens provided by the 14th amendment.

• Japanese-American Internment Camps (Executive Order 9066)

• Holocaust

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese

Transmitted secret military information using native language.

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Flying Tigers

• Women's war effort

Vernon Baker-African American veteran of WWII, did not receive Medal of Honor

• True

• False

The Holocaust-The Nazi attempt at the genocide of the Jewish people, caused many Jews to migrate to America.

• True

• False

Atomic Bomb-A new strategic weapon developed at Los Alamos, New Mexico, Japan surrendered after bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulted in arms race with Soviets.

• True

• False