U.S. Enters WWII

Why did Japan attack America at Pearl Harbor?

• they wanted to invade America

• embargo of oil and rubber

• they hated Americans

What major role did Native Americans play in WWII?

• they were banned from serving in the military

• they used their medicines to help aid the soldiers

• they used their language as code to help transmit messages

Americans who volunteered to serve as pilots fighting the Japanese in China prior to the US entering the war.

• Glenn curtiss

• Charles Lindbergh

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Flying Tigers

These American Indians were recruited by the military to encode, transmit, and decode messages; the Navajo language was used to develop a code that was not broken by the enemy in WWII

• Cherokee

• Navajo

• Apache

• Sioux

Determined young men who enlisted to become America's first black military aviators at a time when the U.S. military still practiced racial segregation. They participated in over 15,000 sorties and earned over 100 Flying Crosses.

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Flying Tigers

• Charles Lindbergh

• Black Panthers

Who were the Tuskegee airmen?

• drivers

• Alabamian pilots

• African American military pilots

• People from Tuskegee

US JOINED WWII IN 1941.

• True

• False

WHEN JAPAN THREATENED BRITISH COLONIES THE US RESPONDED BY CUTTING OFF THEIR OIL & STEEL SUPPLY FROM THE US

• True

• False

THE LEND LEASE ACT SAID WE WOULD HELP SUPPLY ENGLAND WITH ANY RESOURCES THEY NEEDED

• True

• False

What event directly led to the United States entering World War II?

• Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Invasion of Poland

• Battle of Britain

• Fall of France