This set is to be used for the World War 2 lesson in US History for the closed notes portion of the test
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| 708788832 | Pearl Harbor | 7:50-10:00 AM, December 7, 1941 - Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet harbored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii destroyed 18 U.S. ships and 200 aircraft. American losses were 3000, Japanese losses less than 100. In response, the U.S. declared war on Japan and Germany, entering World War II. | |
| 708788833 | All Americans Faught | 1,000,000 African Americans served in the military 300,000 Mexican-Americans 33,000 Japanese Americans 25,000 Native Americans 13,000 Chinese Americans | |
| 708788834 | World War II Scientific Discoveries | sonar penicillin pesticides | |
| 708788835 | Manhattan Project | code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II | |
| 708788836 | War Production Board | During WWII, FDR established it to allocated scarce materials, limited or stopped the production of civilian goods, and distributed contracts among competing manufacturers | |
| 708788837 | Battle of the Atlantic | Germany's naval attempt to cut off British supply ships by using u-boats. Caused Britain and the US to officially join the war after their ships were sunk. After this battle, the Allies won control of the seas, allowing them to control supply transfer, which ultimately determined the war. 1939-1945 | |
| 708788838 | Battle of Stalingrad | a 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union thanks to harsh winter --> turning point of war in Eastern Europe | |
| 708788839 | Dwight Eisenhower | leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2--leader of troops in Africa and commander in DDay invasion-elected president | |
| 708788840 | Italian Campaign | The allied campaign to take Italy. It took 18 months, from 1943-1944. Italy surrendered after many beach landings and other dangerous tactics. | |
| 708788841 | Tuskegee Airman | Unit of African American pilots that fought in World War II; got more awards then any other unit. | |
| 708788842 | D-Day | June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II. | |
| 708788843 | Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last offensive - meant to stop Allied invasion; occurs in Belgian forests, allies win and get into Germany. | |
| 708788844 | Fate of Hitler | suicide | |
| 708788845 | V-E Day | May 8, 1945; Victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered | |
| 708788846 | Fate of FDR | did not live to see V-E Day On April 12, 1945, he suffered a stroke and died- his VP Harry S Truman became the nation's 33rd president | |
| 708788847 | Battle of Coral Sea | A battle between Japanese and American naval forces that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. | |
| 708788848 | Battle of Midway | 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. | |
| 708788849 | Island Hopping | The American navy attacked islands held by the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean. The capture of each successive island from the Japanese brought the American navy closer to an invasion of Japan. | |
| 708788850 | Iwo Jima | United States fought for and captured this Pacific Island; the battle produced some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific Campaign of World War II; major island in island hopping campaign | |
| 708788851 | Battle for Okinawa | Japan's last defensive outpost, 1,900 kamakazie pilots used in this battle, ends on June 22nd 1945. It was used as a forecast for what an invasion of the mainland would be like. | |
| 708788852 | Fatman, Little Boy | the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan | |
| 708788853 | Hiroshima | City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II. | |
| 708788854 | Nagasaki | site of 2nd Atomic Bomb, killing 40,000+ Japanease citizens | |
| 708788855 | Firebombing of Tokyo | US bombed tokyo, Tokyo was destroyed badly and 80,000 civilians died and along of 65 other cities were destroyed. | |
| 708788856 | V-J Day | "Victory over Japan day" is the celebration of the Surrender of Japan, which was initially announced on August 15, 1945 | |
| 708788857 | Yalta Conference | FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War | |
| 708788858 | Nuremberg War Trials | a series of trials in 1945 and 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany, in which an international military tribunal convicted former Nazi leaders of war crimes | |
| 708788859 | Douglas MacArthur | Commanded Allied troops in the Pacific during World War II. He was forced to surrender the Philippines in 1941 and was thereafter obsessed with its recapture, which he accomplished in 1944. He later commanded the American occupation of Japan and United Nations troops in the Korean War. | |
| 708788860 | Harry Truman | Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb | |
| 708788861 | GI Bill | law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations | |
| 708788862 | Japanese Internment | Roosevelt signed a document Feb. 19,1942 stating that all people of Japanese ancestry from California and parts of Washington, Oregon, and Arizona, needed to be removed. Put them in internment camps because of their fear for another attack by the Japanese. | |
| 708788863 | Marshall Plan | A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. |
