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| What were the causes of World War II? | provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, conditions created by the Great Depression, rise of dictators, and Germany invaded Poland |
| Why did the United State enter World War II? | Japan attacked Pearl Harbor |
| How had the US prepared for war? | converted factory production, 1st peacetime draft, |
| How did citizens support the war effort during World War II? | volunteered for service, worked in factories, bought war bonds, rationed food and war supplies, planted Victory Gardens |
| What was the Manhattan Project? | secret government program for building the Atomic Bomb |
| How did the United States end the war with Japan? | dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| What was the US strategy for defeating Japan in the Pacific? | leapfrogging to take strategic islands |
| What was the Allies strategy for defeating Hitler in Germany? | Peripheral attack |
| What was the name of the man who led the Manhattan Project? | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| What was the name of the policy that modified neutrality and allowed the US to help the Allies at the beginning of WWII? | Cash and Carry Policy |
| Who was president of the US at during most of the Depression? | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| Who was president at the beginning of World War II? | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| What was the name given to the period of concentration and extermination camps in Germany? | Holocaust |
| What new technology was developed to fight against German air attacks? | radar |
| What new tecnology was developed to fight against German submarine attacks? | sonar |
| What US foreign policy was encouraged by disillusionment with World War I and its results? | isolationist policy |
| What was the US policy of moving Japanese Americans to mountain camps called? | Containment/ Internment |
| Who was the leader of England during World War II? | Winston Churchill |
| African American aid in the victory during World War II provided a double victory against? | racism at home and abroad |
| What did the US use to prevent loss of ships in the Atlantic? | convoy system |
