Review: World War II

Women and the War Effort

• Women played a major role during WWII by entering jobs in the defense industry. Women also served in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, in segregated units.
• Efforts to collect spare rubber, tin, aluminum, and steel to make into bullets, tanks, airplanes.
• A conflict in which the participating countries devote all military and civilian resources to achieving victory.
• A WWII agency established to mediate labor disputes. This agency limited wage increases,

Internment Camps

• Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President.
• A WWII agency established to mediate labor disputes. This agency limited wage increases,
• World War II victory for the Allied troops that resulted in the deaths of almost all of the 100,000 Japanese defenders; the battle claimed 12,000 American lives. The extremely brutal fighting prompted the decision to use atomic bombs.
• After many years of battles, and the surrenders of Germany and Italy, Japan was still fighting. After much deliberation, the U.S. decided to drop their newly developed atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing thousands. After Japan didn't surrender, the U.S. dropped another one a few days after on Nagasaki also killing thousands.

isolationism/neutrality

• What term describes the foreign policy of the U.S. between World War I and World War II?
• During what years was World War II fought?
• What groups of people experienced increased job opportunities during World War II?
• appeasement

Executive Order 9066

• What law forced Japanese Americans on the west coast to relocate to internment camps?
• During what years was World War II fought?
• What does term "arsenal of democracy" describe the role of the U.S. before it entered World War II?
• appeasement

Tuskegee Airmen

• What group of African-American pilots were honored for their bravery as escorts on bombing missions?
• What group of soldiers helped transmit secret messages on the Pacific Front?
• Germany
• What did the government encourage Americans to buy to help finance the war?

1939-1945

• During what years was World War II fought?
• What did Americans use to preserve farm-produced food for the military?
• What group of pilots heroically engaged in combat with the Japanese while supplying China with weapons?
• What did the government encourage Americans to buy to help finance the war?

Korematsu v. United States

• In what decision did the Supreme Court support the government's take way the civil liberties of Japanese Americans in the name of national security?
• appeasement
• What groups of people experienced increased job opportunities during World War II?
• Who was the President of the United States when World War II began?

What is a war bond?

• Loaning money to the government while planning to be repaid after the war
• Donating money to the government for nothing in return
• The friendships made in war
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the civilian population and their activities at home supporting the military effort abroad

• European Theater
• Homefront
• Pacific Theater
• Battlefront

a home vegetable garden created to boost food production during World War II

• Ration Books
• Japanese Internment Camps
• War Bonds
• Victory Gardens