WWII and the Post-War Era

Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction.

• Potsdam Conference

• Yalta Conference

• FDR

• Truman

Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war

• Yalta Conference

• FDR

• Truman

• Manhattan Project

US President at the beginning of the war; asked for declaration of war against Japan, Germany and Italy

• FDR

• Truman

• Churchill

• Wilson

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.

• Manhattan Project

• Internment

• Internment Camps

• Pearl Harbor

A limited portion or allowance of food or goods; limitation of use

• Rationing

• Rosie the Riveter

• Propaganda

• Double V Campaign

A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part.

• Rosie the Riveter

• Propaganda

• Double V Campaign

• declaration of war

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

• Propaganda

• Double V Campaign

• declaration of war

• Potsdam Conference

The World War II-era effort of black Americans to gain "a Victory over racism at home as well as Victory abroad."

• Double V Campaign

• declaration of war

• Potsdam Conference

• Yalta Conference

Confinement during wartime

• Internment

• Manhattan Project

• Pearl Harbor

• executive order

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