Unit 8 WW2 part 2

Naval battle that prevented further attacks on Hawaii; a turning point in favor of the United States during World War 2

• Battle of Leyte Gulf
• Battle of Guadalcanal
• Battle of Midway
• Battle of Coral Sea

Military strategy used by the Allies in the Pacific Theatre to get closer to the mainland of Japan

• Island hopping
• Blitzkrieg
• Trench warfare
• Guerrilla tactics

A research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during WW2

• Atomic Energy Commission
• Nuclear Development Program
• Manhattan Project
• Los Alamos Initiative

Two cities in Japan that the United States dropped atomic bombs in August of 1945

• Fukuoka and Sendai
• Kyoto and Sapporo
• Tokyo and Osaka
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Presidential order issued by FDR two months after the attacks on Pearl Harbor which placed Japanese-American citizens in interment camps

• Executive Order 9065
• Presidential Directive 101
• Military Order 2022
• Executive Order 9066

A landmark Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066.

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• Korematsu v. United States (1944)

Debt securities issued by the government during WW2 to finance military operations and other expenditures

• War Bonds
• Liberty Bonds
• Victory Bonds
• Savings Bonds

Labor and transportation shortages made it hard to harvest and move fruits and vegetables to market, so the government turned to its citizens and encouraged them to plant

• war bonds

• stocks

• victory gardens

• rationing

The controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services

#supply shortages

#fair distribution of scarce foods

• war bonds

• victory gardens

• stocks

• rationing

The popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. They were the first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces.

• The Flying Tigers

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Navajo Code Talkers

• The 442nds Regimental Combat Team