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At home In Wartime/winning the war

A ruler who has total control of acountry and its people.

Who is a dictator?

The government controls the economy,culture, and all parts of people’s lives.

What is fascism?

Means to get ready to fight .

What is to mobilize?

A place where prisoners are heldduring wartime.

What is internment camp?

. A place where large numbers of people are held prisoner and forced to work. At these places, men, women, and children were beaten, starved, and even killed.

What is a concentration camp?

A strong German leader who said that he could solve his country’s economic problems in 1933.

Who was Adolf Hitler?

The leaders in these three countriesbelieved in racism. Name the three countries and the alliance they formed.

Who are Germany, Italy, andJapan? What is the Axis Powers,or the Axis?

Hitler blamed these people forGermany’s problems and sent many of them to prison.

Who are the Jewish people, or Jews?

What two countries first formed an alliance known as the Allied Powers, or the Allies?

Who are Great Britain and France?

The Allied Powers tried to resolvethings with Germany peacefully.What event led to the Allies declaring war on Germany ?

What was Hitler breaking his promise when he attacked Poland?

True or false:

Most Americans still believedin isolationism and wanted to stayout of the fighting in Europe.

What is true?

Country that knew that only theUnited States Navy was strong enough to stop them in their quest to conquer other Asiancountries.

Who was Japan?

Reason why the United Statesentered World War II.

What was the United States realized that they could not stayneutral after Japan attackedPearl Harbor?

The reason why the United Statesneeded to mobilize for war afterthe attack on Pearl Harbor bythe Japanese.

What is the reason ‘that the armed forces had grown weaker after WWI and the military was unprepared for a big war’? P.370

During WWII , the U.S. factorieshad to mainly produce these things because the country wasnot well prepared at that time to fight a war.

What were airplanes, tanks, and military goods or war supplies such as uniforms and guns?

Which of these things were NOTrationed during WWII?a)gasolineb)meatc)metald)sugar

What was c) metal?

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, people worried that this ethnic group might help Japan attack the United States again. FDR signed an order forcing over 100,000 of this group to leave their homes and move to internment camps.

Who were the Japanese Americans?

On June 6, 1944, nearly 200,000Allied soldiers invaded northernFrance. What is the name of this day?

What is D-Day?

In May 1945, Germany was forced to surrender. This day, May 8, is called ________ ___ ________ Day, or ___ -____ Day by the Allies.

What is the Victory in Europe Day, or V – E Day?

The implementation of this new weapon by the United States forced Japan to surrender.

What was dropping an atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and then three days later on Nagasaki ?

The nickname given to many women who worked in jobs that only men had held before

What is “Rosie the Riveter”?

A group of African Americanpilots that flew many successfulmissions over Italy.

Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?

Soon after the atomic bombs weredropped the emperor of Japan, Hirohito, surrendered. This day,August 14, 1945, has become knownas ? ?

What is the Victory in JapanDay, or V-J Day?

These people played an importantrole in the Pacific fighting. They joinedthe United States Marines and created a secret code that the Japanese could not understand. This allowed importantmessages and orders to be sentbetween Allied leaders and soldiers.

What are the Navajo code talkers?

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What victory in the Pacific gaveAmerica more power?

What was the victory at Midway?

Final Jeopardy

More advanced equipment andweapons, as well as technology of radar helped the Allies do this.

Final Jeopardy Answer

What is win the war?