World War II Vocabulary

Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during war time to assure adequate supplies for the military.

• Axis Powers

• USS Arizona

• Rationing

• Allied Powers

During World War II, many women experienced a change in role in that they

• served in military combat positions

• worked in jobs formerly held by men

• controlled most corporations

• chaired several congressional committees

What event in World War 2 caused thousands of Japanese-Americans to be placed in internment camps?

• Invasion of the Philippines

• The Invasion of Poland

• The Pearl Harbor attack

• The Battle of Britain

A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator.

• Totalitarianism

• Nazism

• Allied Powers

• Rationing

Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s.

• Totalitarianism

• Fascism

• Nazism

• Rationing

Battleship that was hit in the attack on Pearl Harbor. It sunk and remains an underwater graveyard and memorial today.

• USS Tennessee
• The Farragut
• The Lusitania
• USS Arizona

A symbol of American women who went to work in factories during the war.

• Uncle Sam
• Cornelia Fort
• Rosie the Riveter
• Rosie the Citizen

A secret research and development project of the US to develop the atomic bomb.

• Rationing

• The Manhattan Project

• Japanese Internment

• USS Arizona

Prime minister of Japan during World War II. He gave his approval for the attack on Pearl Harbor and played a major role in Japan's military decisions until he resigned in 1944.

• Hideki Tojo
• Cornelia Fort
• Rosie the Riveter
• Samari Warrior

Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during WW II.

• USS Arizona

• Allied Powers

• Holocaust

• Axis Powers