World War II Test Review

Issued by FDR in 1942, allowing internment camps to be set up to exclude current residents believed to be a threat to society, as a matter of national security

• Infamy Speech

• 4 Freedoms

• Executive Order 9066

• Lend Lease Act

A group of Army Air Corps pilots established in 1941 as the first black combat unit. Led to the desegregation of the armed forces.

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Flying Tigers

• Axis Powers

An international military trial that convicted former Nazi leaders of war crimes

• Holocaust trials

• Nuremberg trials

• D-Day trials

• Midway trials

Iconic female symbol during WW2 to show the rolls of women were expanding, urged women to help the war effort

• Amelia the amazing

• Ida the incredible

• Sandra the spectacular

• Rosie the Riveter

Forced march of American and Filipino POWs where many soldiers died along the way, when Japan forces occupied the Bataan Peninsula

• Island Hopping Campaign

• Bataan Death March

• Operation Overlord

• Manhattan Project

Supreme Court Decision declaring that the government had the right to keep Japanese Americans in internment camps as a matter of national security.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Korematsu v. The United States

• Van Buren v. The United States

Germany’s “Lightning War”, meant to be swift and brutal.

• Biological warfare

• Guerrilla warfare

• Aerial warfare

• Blitzkrieg warfare

Legislation designed to keep America out of conflicts brewing in Europe, stating we would not trade with belligerent countries. U.S. wanted to stay neutral.

• Neutrality Acts

• Lend Lease Act

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

Technology used during World War II to observe and detect aircraft.

• Sonar

• Radar

• Atomic Bomb

• Encryption

Giving in to an enemy’s demands in order to maintain peace used in Europe before World War II.

• Pacification

• Concession

• Appeasement