World War II

Japanese retaliation for a trade embargo; resulted in U.S. entering WWII

• Hiroshima

• Nagasaki

• Pearl Harbor

• D-Day

economic and political interdependence of nations; stop spread of totalitarian governments

• Justification for War

• Globalization

• Isolationism

• Nationalism

support war effort by increasing food supply

• Draft

• Rationing

• War Bonds

• Victory Gardens

took on new roles to support war effort; joined nurse cadets and worked in factories to keep up production

• Children

• Women

• Elderly

• Men

violated liberties of Japanese American citizens provided in the 14th Amendment

• Celebration of diversity

• Japanese American internment camps

• Equal treatment of citizens

• Protection of individual rights

African American military pilots; overcame discrimination to serve; encouraged integration of armed forces

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Red Tails

• Montford Point Marines

transmitted secret military information

• Smoke Signals

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Flying Tigers

• Navajo Code Talkers

African American veteran of WWII; received Medal of Honor

• Vernon J. Baker

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

Nazi attempt at the genocide of Jewish people; caused many Jews to migrate to America

• Pearl Harbor

• Holocaust

• Great Depression

• World War II

a new strategic weapon developed at Los Alamos, New Mexico; used to quickly end WWII; Japan surrendered after bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; resulted in arms race with Soviets

• hydrogen bomb

• nuclear missile

• atomic bomb

• chemical weapon