World War II Study Guide

Austrian born Dictator of Germany, implement Fascism and caused WWII and Holocoust.

• Vernon Baker

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Adolf Hitler

• Flying Tigers

Two Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs to end World War II.

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Holocaust

• Battle of Midway

• Pearl Harbor Attack

Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

• Vernon Baker

• Harry Truman

• Battle of Midway

• George Marshall

A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity.

• Nuremberg Trials

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Pearl Harbor Attack

• Rationing

U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II.

• Korematsu v. US

• Omar Bradley

• Holocaust

• Battle of Midway

the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler

• Harry Truman

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Omar Bradley

• Holocaust

Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President.

• rationing

• Japanese Internment Camps

• Rosie the Riveter

• Tuskegee Airmen

Why were Japanese-Americans living on the west coast sent to internment camps during World War II?

• There was a mistaken belief that they were aiding our enemy, Japan.

• Many could not speak English and were being harassed by other Americans.

• Evidence was seized from Japanese-American spies.

• British Intelligence found out about a bombing plot planned by Californians of Japanese descent and the nation of Japan

President Truman used the atomic bomb because

• America needed Japan to surrender and wanted to save soliders lives

• Roosevelt advised him that the weapons could not potentially work

• Harry Truman was a racist against the Japanese

• The War would not be easily surrended by the Japanese

Four Freedom Speech by President Roosevelt was about

• To encourage Americans to support Allies by highlighing the importance of fundamental freedoms

• to convince Americans to join the war and fight against the Axis poers

• introduce new lawas that would lmit freedoms in the US

• explain why the US should not be invovled and remain neutral