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YAWP 24
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Japanese Empire (WWII) | Military took over Japanese policy. Conquest of China would not only provide Japan's Industrial needs, but secure Japanese supremacy in East Asia. |
| Isolationism | opposing any involvement in the conflagrations burning in Europe and Asia |
| Nazis | Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas of racial supremacy and military expansion |
| War in Europe | Began when German Wehrmacht invaded Poland. Britain and France declared war two days later |
| Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 United States military base on Oahu, Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. |
| American entry into World War II | Within a week of Pearl Harbor the US had declared war on the entire Axis, turning the two previously separate conflicts into a global conflicts |
| Invasion of Europe | American, British and Canadian forces launched Operation Overlord "D-Day", was the largest amphibious assault in history. Gen. Eisenhower wrote two speeches the night before, one for success and one for failure |
| Combat in the Pacific | Turned in Summer of 1942, naval victories at the Battle of Coral Sea and the aircraft duel at the Battle of Midway crippled Japan's Pacific naval operations. |
| Atomic Bombs | Fat Man and Little Boy were built and detonated over Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the led the Japanese to surrender and helped bring an end to WWII |
| Soldiers' Experiences | After basic, soldiers moved to more specialized training. Combat infantrymen received additional weapons training, radio operators learned code and operations of field radios. |
| End of the Great Depression | war production (weapons, etc.) for WWII significantly lowers unemployment |
| Bracero Program | Wartime agreement between the United States and Mexico to import farm workers to meet a perceived manpower shortage; the agreement was in effect from 1941 to 1947. |
| Women in the workforce | Industrial labor, an occupational sphere dominated by men, shifted in part to women for the duration of wartime mobilization. |
| Women in the military | 350,000 women served in all female units of the military branches. Army and Navy Nurse Corps Reserves, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) |
| African-American servicemembers WWII | The number of Black officers increased from 5 (1940) to 7,000 (1945). |
| Segregation in the military | Most Black servicemen served in segregated, noncombat units led by white officers, at the start of the war. By the end of the war the Army and Navy began to integrate some of their units. Military fully integrated by 1948. |
| Japanese Internment | Wartime anti-Japanese sentiment built on historical prejudices, turned Japanese immigrants and citizens into suspects. Executive Order 9066 detained them in the custody of the War Relocation Authority. |
| America's approach to the Holocaust | American officials expressed no official concern for Nazi prosecutions of Jews. In 1939, German ship St. Louis filled w Jewish refugees couldn't find harbor to take them. 1944 US formed War Refugee Board, but policies were too late to prevent atrocities |
| United Nations | Learning from the failure of the League of Nations after WWI. An international organization formed after WWII was created to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. |
| GI Bill | law passed in 1944, multi-faceted, multi-billion dollar entitlement program to reward honorably discharged veterans with numerous benefits including access to education and access government subsidized homeownership loans |
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