World War II

Question 1

Isolationism–> interventionism

Answer 1

Appeasement: act of appealing or denying
Neutrality acts: limit US involvement in future wars
Cash and carry: goods are paid for in full at time of purchase
Lend lease: lend war supplies to allies
Japanese embargo: stopped all trade accounts with Japan
Attack on Pearl Harbor: Japanese attack drew us into war

Question 2

Key battles and war strategies

Answer 2

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: wanted full surrender, they refused, dropped atomic bombs
Battle of the Atlantic: longest war ever, fight for British survival, German defeat
VE Day: Germany’s unconditional surrender
North Africa: war site
Iwo Jima: marines take Iwo Jima away from Japanese
D-Day: Storm France to fight Nazi Germany
Battle of the Bulge: bloodiest war, 100,000 German casualties, surprise attacks
VJ Day: Japan surrenders, ending war
Battle of midway: attempted surprise attack by Japanese, break down Japanese confidence
Code talkers: Navajo Indians, hard to understand their language
Island hoppers: conquering islands by steady strategy

Question 3

Wartime propaganda tools and objectives

Answer 3

Tools: suggestions, hints, appeal to desires, slogans

Objectives: recruitment, finance, unification, conservation, support of war

Question 4

Homefront:

Answer 4

propaganda- persuasive techniques
Rationing- saving food and items for soldiers
War production board- supervised war production
National war relations board- elections for labor union leadership
Japanese internment- 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in camps
Selective service: random daring for boys to enter war
Office of scientific research and development- scientific research for war
Office of price admin.: control money after war
Rosie the Riveter: symbol for women in factories
Zoot suit riots: racism between Mexican Americans and law force
Role of women: worked in factories and had more opportunities