1. WWII Review

2. Before entering WII, how did the US respond to aggression in Asia?

3. Embargo on oil and steel shipments to Japan

4. What language was almost like a secret code to the enemy?

5. Navajo Language

6. What established rules governing treatment of prisoners of war?

7. Geneva Convention

8. Which trials held German officers responsible for war crimes?

9. Nuremberg Trials

10. How did the US government deal with the press (media) during World War II?

11. Limited the media’s ability to report about the war

12. How did the US government ensure that the military had essential materials like gas and food?

13. Consumer Rationing

14. What action did the Supreme Court say was constitutional because of military necessity?

15. Internment of Japanese-Americans

16. What was the main reason African- Americans migrated to cities in the early 1940s?

17. Job opportunities in war plants

18. How did women play a major role on the domestic front during WWII?

19. Taking jobs in the defense industry

20. Which two nations secretly agreed to take over Poland?

21. Germany and the Soviet Union

22. Put these events in order: D-Day Blitzkrieg Pearl Harbor Nuremberg Trials

23. Blitzkrieg Pearl Harbor D-Day Nuremberg Trials

24. Which battle does this map show?

25. D-Day

26. What was the significance of the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa ?

27. Because the fighting was so brutal, the US decided to use atomic bombs rather than risk invading mainland Japan.

28. What did the Nazis call the plan to exterminate all Jews?

29. The Final Solution

30. What date did Franklin Delano Roosevelt call “a date that will live in infamy?”

31. December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor

32. How did the US respond to the Battle of Britain?

33. The Lend-Lease Act

34. What kind of roles were African- American soldiers limited to at first?

35. Non-combat roles in segregated units