| A | B |
|---|
| Japanese Americans | placed in internment camps for fear of spying |
| income tax, war bonds | ways to finance the war |
| U.S. remains neutral | first 2 years of WWII |
| used to provide personnel for military | draft, selective service, voluntary enlistments |
| American industry and government | formed a close relationship to insure military supplies |
| Midway | turning point of the war |
| isolationists at home | U.S. helps Britain with supplies |
| Germany first strategy | Allies target Germany because of its industrial power |
| Red Cross | volunteers |
| Hollywood, ad agencies | help keep public morale high |
| draft | used to insure manpower for the U.S. military |
| rationing, ad agencies, Hollywood | helped Americans focus on the war effort |
| Nisei Regiments | Japanese Americans |
| women on the homefront | participated in the workforce |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbol of women in industry, made famous through ads |
| island hopping | U.S. strategy to defeat Japan |
| Lend-Lease Act | gave the president authority to sell or lend equipment to countries to defend themselves against the Axis powers |
| The Bataan Death March | American POW's were treated brutally by Japanese after surrender of Philippines |
| Navajo Code talkers | language for communication ; codes Japanese couldn't break |
| "crimes against humanity" | Holocaust, The Bataan Death March, Genocide |
| Japan surrenders | end of WWII |
| American Indians and Hispanics | served in intergrated units |
| Tuskegee Airmen | decorated military airmen who provided combat support against German air force |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Japan, and Italy |
| reason U.S. entered the war | Japan attacks Pearl Harbor |
| leaders of the Axis Powers | Hitler, Hideki, Mussolini |
| leaders of the Allied Powers | Churchill, FDR, Stalin |
| WWII battles | El-Alamein, Stalingrad, D-Day |
| Iwo Jima and Okinawa | Island Hopping Campaign |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | atomic bomb used on these two cities |
| Navaho | used a code that was an oral language |
| Japanese soldiers | committed suicide instead of surrendering |
| Holocaust victims | Jews, Poles, Slavs |
| Germany's Final Solution | extermination of all Jews |
| Nuremberg Trials | Nazi leaders and others were convicted of war crimes |
| Israel | Jewish homeland |
| concentration camps | where Jewish people were force to live |
| Axis strategy | Germany hoped to capture Soviet oil fields and take Britain out before America could help |
| minority participation | minorities and women were used in support roles |
| Mexican Americans | allowed to fight, not segregated |
