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America at war
Question | Answer |
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anti Semitism | The discrimination of Jews |
Albert Einstein | scientist who wrote letter to Roosevelt containing instructions of how to make the atomic bomb. |
Bataan death march | Where the Japanese force marched prisoners to walk 60 miles |
Battle of Guadalcanal | Where we destroy Japanese airfields |
Battle of Norway | Where Europe is retaken from the west. |
Battle of Okinawa | The last obstacle before attacking the Japanese homeland |
Battle of Stalingrad | Stop German expansion eastward |
Battle of the bulge | Where we tried to break the last German position |
concentration camps | Place were Jews were held captive by Hitler and the Nazis . |
Ghettos | A place where the poor/Jews, were housed during the holocaust/ great depression |
Hiroshima | The first place that we used the atomic bomb on in japan |
holocaust | The slaughter of many Jews and other religious groups by Hitler and the Nazis. |
internment camps | |
Manhatten project | Code name for the atomic bomb |
rationing | When eating less was encouraged to provide more food for the soldiers at war |
Rosie the riverter | Used as a part of propaganda to get women to help out during the war |
selective service and training act | Where men ages 21-35 would register with the local draft bonds |
shortages | The army would run low on food so propaganda was created as a cause to give more food up to the army. |
victory gardens | What people that could, would grow vegetables in their yard at home. This would be another way for the army to save food . |
role of women during the war | To make weapons in the factories. |