1. Chapter 17
World War II

2. Essential Question
How did the United States use its resources to win World War II?
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3. Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps
U.S. Army unit created during World War II to enable women to serve in noncombat positions.
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4. Rationing
A restriction of peoples’ right to buy unlimited amounts of particular food and other goods, often implemented during wartime to ensure adequate supplies for the military.
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5. Supreme U.S. Commander in Europe.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme U.S. Commander in Europe.
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6. D-Day
The date for an invasion to occur. (June 6, 1944)
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7. V-E Day
Victory in Europe. May 8, 1945.
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8. Harry S. Truman
President that ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan.
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9. George Patton
One of the U.S. Army's and America's greatest commanding Generals . When Third Army was moved to France, in July of 1944, they began a great dash across France. The Germans launched their last great offensive of the war - the Battle of the Bulge.
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10. Stalingrad
Turning point of WWII in Europe where the Soviets lost 1.1 million soldiers more than all American deaths during the entire war.
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11. Tuskegee Airmen Known as “Red Tails”. All-black 99th Pursuit Squadron.
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12. Kamikaze
Suicide-plane means “divine wind.”
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13. Hiroshima
City where the first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, Killed 70,000 and injured 69,000.
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14. Douglas MacArthur
Was one of America’s greatest military leaders who was instrumental in defeating the Japanese in World War II and presided over the rebuilding of Japan after the war.
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15. Battle of Midway
Was the turning point in the Pacific War.
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16. Navajo Code Talkers
Native Americans who used their language to transmit messages which the Japanese were unable to decode.
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17. Iwo Jima
Means “sulfur island.” Defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, and it was attacked by three marine divisions after elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment (sixty-eight hundred tons of bombs, twenty-two thousand shells). American losses included 5,900 dead and 17,400 wounded.
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18. Manhattan Project
U.S. government research project (1942–45) that produced the first atomic bombs.
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19. Robert Oppenheimer
Appointed as technical director of the Manhattan Project. Under his guidance, the creation of the first atomic bomb occurred.
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20. Nagasaki
On August 9, 1945, during World War II ( ), an American B-29 bomber dropped the second atomic bomb on this city.
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21. Nuremburg Trials
The general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in crimes committed during the Holocaust of World War II.
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22. GI Bill of Rights
Called Servicemen’s Readjustment Act,  U.S. legislation passed in 1944 that provided benefits to World War II veterans.
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23. Internment
The forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country.
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24. Japanese American Citizens League
The mission is to secure and maintain the civil rights of Japanese Americans and all others victimized by injustice and bigotry.
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25. Rosie the Riveter
A fictional character featured in a propaganda campaign created by the U.S. government to encourage white middle class women to work outside the home during World War II.
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26. Enola Gay The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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27. Fat Man
Name of the bomb dropped over Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, near the end of World War II.
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28. Little Boy
The first atomic bomb used against Japan in World War II, detonated over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
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29. James Doolittle
Led the raid on Tokyo on 18 April 1942, was first time the U.S. had attacked the main islands of Japan.
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30. Victory in Japan. August 15, 1945
V-J Day
Victory in Japan. August 15, 1945
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31. Island Hopping
A strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific.
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