This event marked the unconditional surrender of Germany.
What is VE Day?
Name three of the major Allied powers.
Great Britain, France, Russia, the US, or China
Term that best describes the American strategy in the Pacific Theatre of war.
What is Island Hopping?
"Do with less so they'll have enough!"
"Rationing gives you a fare share."
"When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler."
What is the conservation of scarce resources?
Research and development of the atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
What was the last major Nazi offensive against the Allies is WWII?
Battle of the Buldge
What were the Axis powers?
Germany, Italy, and Japan.
What two cities were destroyed by the USA with the atomic bomb on August 6 and August 9th of 1945
Heroshima and Nagasaki
The Supreme court deemed these institutions as constitutional, due to a "military necessity."
What are Japanese Internment Camps?
Trials for WWII war crimes held in Germany post WWII.
What are the Nuremburg Trials?
This battle marked the turning point in the Pacific Theatre.
What is the Battle of Midway
Allied invasion of Normandy, France.
What is D-Day (Operation Overlord)
the following quote describes which event:
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one... Now, I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
What is The first atomic bomb explosion?
They provided labor in shipyards, and ammunitions factories and manufacturing jobs usually held by white males
What is women/minorities during WWII
The commonality between Korematsu v. U.S., Dread Scott v. Sanford, and Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is the denial of basic human rights?
The battle that marked the turning point on the Eastern Front.
What is the battle of Stalingrad?
What is the Potsdam Conference?
This nation lost the total number of lives during WWII (16,825,000).
What is Soviet Union?
This committee was responsible for allocating resources and directing industrial production during the war.
What is the War Production Board?
First successful African American Air Force Regiment during WWII.
The Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in the European Theatre because...
What is Hitler retreating and not conquering Europe
Why did Stalin want Britain and the U.S. to open up a second front in France on D-Day?
What is relief on military pressure in USSR.
President Harry Truman's justification for dropping two atomic bombs on Japan.
What is ending the war and saving many lives?
America's primary role on the defeat of Axis powers during WWII.
What is an "arsenal for democracy" through manufacture of war materials?
These two nations emerged from WWII as world super powers.
What is The Soviet Union and United States.