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|Card Number |Front |Back |

|1 |World War II |Nothing, since this is the title card |

|2 |Who was president during World War II? |Franklin D. Roosevelt |

|3 |What event started World War II in Europe? |Hitler invaded Poland |

|4 |What were the Axis nations during World War II? |Germany, Italy, Japan |

|5 |What was the Battle of Britain? |Hitler’s air attack on Great Britain |

|6 |What country did Hitler invade in mid-1941? |The Soviet Union |

|7 |What was the position of the U.S. during the first two years of World |neutral |

| |War II? | |

|8 |What policy had strong support in the U.S. during the first two years of|isolationism |

| |World War II? | |

|9 |Identify the Lend-Lease Act. |Said the President could sell, lease, or lend military equipment to countries who|

| | |were fighting the Axis powers |

|10 |How did America’s policy towards Japan change after the Japanese |Refused to recognize Japanese conquests in Asia |

| |invasion of Manchuria and China? |U.S. embargo on oil and steel exports to Japan |

|11 |Why did U.S. get involved in World War II? |Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor |

|12 |Who was the leader of Germany during World |Adolf Hitler |

| |War II? | |

|13 |Who were the Allies in World War II? |Great Britain, Soviet Union, and United States |

|14 |Who was the leader of Great Britain during World War II? |Winston Churchill |

|15 |Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II? |Joseph Stalin |

|16 |What strategy did the Allies follow? |Defeat Hitler first |

|17 |What happened at |British defeated the Germans in North Africa; turning point of the war in the |

| |El Alamein? |Middle East |

|18 |What happened at the Battle of Stalingrad? |Soviets defeated the Germans; turning point of the war in Europe on the eastern |

| | |front |

|19 |What happened at the Normandy landings or |Allied troops defeated the Germans; turning point of the war in Europe on the |

| |D-Day? |western front |

|20 |Who was commander of the Allied forces at the D-Day invasion? |Dwight D. Eisenhower |

|21 |What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific? |Battle of Midway |

|22 |What was the Allied strategy in the Pacific? |Island hopping |

|23 |What two Pacific islands did the Americans invade to get closer to |Iwo Jima and Okinawa |

| |Japan? | |

|24 |How did the U.S. end the war in the Pacific? |Dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |

|25 |During World War II, who took factory jobs when the men went to war? |women |

|26 |What image represented American women who worked in factories during |Rosie the Riveter |

| |World War II? | |

|27 |Who were the Tuskegee Airmen? |African-American flyers during World War II |

|28 |What were the Nisei regiments? |Japanese-American regiments in World War II |

|29 |What Native American language was used by the U.S. military during World|Navajo |

| |War II for communication codes in the Pacific? | |

|30 |What international agreement set the rules for the humane treatment of |Geneva Convention |

| |prisoners of war? | |

|31 |What happened on the Bataan Death March? |Many American POWs in the Philippines suffered brutal treatment by their Japanese|

| | |captors |

|32 |What is genocide? |The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, or cultural |

| | |group |

|33 |What was the Holocaust? |Nazi Germany’s systematic murder of European Jews |

|34 |What was Hitler’s “final solution”? |Exterminate (kill) all the Jews in Europe |

|35 |What were the Nuremberg Trials? |Trials of Nazi leaders for war crimes |

|36 |In 1948 what nation was founded by Jewish settler living in Palestine? |Israel |

|37 |How did the U.S. maintain an adequate supply of products for the war |Rationing: each family received a monthly allowance of essential items (sugar, |

| |effort? |gasoline, meat) |

|38 |How did the Roosevelt administration finance World War II? |War bonds |

| | |Federal income tax |

|39 |What African-American leader led the fight for desegregation of the |Philip Randolph |

| |armed forces and equal hiring in defense jobs? | |

|40 |What was the Selective Service Act? |The law that set up the first peacetime draft in American history |

|41 |What happened to most Japanese-Americans during World War II? |Put in internment camps, where they were made to stay until the end of the war |

|42 |How did the Supreme Court rule in Korematsu v. United States? |Upheld the government’s right to act against Japanese-Americans living on the |

| | |West Coast |

| | |Upheld the policy to place Japanese-Americans in internment camps |

|43 |What was the role of the American media and entertainment industries |Promoted nationalism |

| |during World War II? | |

|44 |Define nationalism. |Strong feeling of patriotism or devotion to one’s country |

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