WWII Summary Vocabulary

Question 1

Action that drew the US into WW2

Answer 1

Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Question 2

Two “theaters” of WWII

Answer 2

Europe (the Atlantic); Asia (the Pacific)

Question 3

GREAT MIGRATION

Answer 3

Movement of African Americans from the South to the North and Midwest that sped up during WWII.

Question 4

Japanese Americans

Answer 4

Group of Americans whose civil liberties were violated during WWII when they were interned in prison camps.

Question 5

Axis Powers

Answer 5

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 6

Island hopping

Answer 6

US strategy in the Pacific focused on skipping heavily fortified islands and attacking weaker ones.

Question 7

Normandy

Answer 7

site of Allied forces landing in 1944 on D-Day.

Question 8

Radar

Answer 8

technology that spotted air attacks.

Question 9

Sonar

Answer 9

technology that located undersea attacks from submarines

Question 10

rockets

Answer 10

new technology to deliver explosives introduced in WW2 by Nazi Germany

Question 11

Allied Powers

Answer 11

US, Great Britain, USSR

Question 12

war bonds

Answer 12

sold by the government to pay for the war; a form of government debt.

Question 13

Stalin

Answer 13

dictator of the USSR in WW2

Question 14

FDR

Answer 14

president of the US through most of WW2

Question 15

Churchill

Answer 15

leader of Great Britain during WW2

Question 16

Effects of WW2 in USA

Answer 16

a booming economy, demands for civil rights, growing US influence overseas, the Cold War