World War II
Who was president
during World War II?
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
Identify the LendLease Act.
• A law which allowed the President to
sell, lease, or lend defense equipment
to nations which the President
considered vital to American
security
• Allowed FDR to help the British
against Germany
What event started
World War II ?
•Hitler invaded
Poland.
What event brought
the U.S. into World
War II?
•Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor
What were the Axis
nations during World
War II?
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
Who was the leader of
Germany during World
War II?
• Adolf Hitler
Who were the Allies in
World War II?
• Great Britain
• the Soviet Union
• the United States
Who was the leader of
Great Britain during
World War II?
•Winston Churchill
Who was the leader of
the Soviet Union during
World War II?
•Joseph Stalin
What strategy did the
Allies follow?
•Defeat Hitler First
In what battle in North Africa
did the British defeat
German forces, thereby
denying Hitler control over
the Middle Eastern oil fields
and preventing Hitler from
attacking the Soviet Union
from the south?
•El Alamein
What happened at the
Battle of Stalingrad?
• Soviet army defeated the Germans
• Prevented the Germans from seizing
the Soviet oil fields
• Turned the tide against the Germans
on the eastern front
What happened at the
Normandy landings
(D-Day)?
• American and Allied troops
landed in France.
• Liberation of Western Europe
had begun.
Who was the commander of
the Allied forces at the DDay invasion?
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
What was the turning
point of the war in the
Pacific?
•The Battle of
Midway
What was the Allied
strategy in the Pacific?
•Island hopping
The invasions of what two
Pacific islands brought
American forces closer to
Japan?
•Iwo Jima
•Okinawa
How did the United
States end the war in the
Pacific?
• Dropped atomic
bombs on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki
During World War II,
when men left the factories
to serve in
the armed forces,
who often took their jobs?
•Women
Were the United States
armed forces racially
segregated during
World War II?
•Yes
During World War II,
what group of
African-American flyers served
with distinction in Europe?
•The Tuskegee
Airmen
During World War II, what
Japanese-American regiments
earned a high number of
decorations for bravery?
•Nisei regiments
What Native American
language was used by the U.S.
military during World War II
for communication codes in the
Pacific?
•Navajo
What international
agreement established rules
for the humane treatment of
prisoners of war?
• The Geneva Convention
What happened on the
Bataan Death March?
• American POWs in the
Philippines suffered brutal
treatment by the Japanese
What was the
Holocaust?
• Nazi Germany’s
systematic murder of
European Jews.
What was Hitler’s
“final solution?”
• Exterminate (kill) all
the Jews in Europe
What were the
Nuremberg Trials?
• Trials of Nazi leaders
for war crimes
In 1948 what nation was
founded by Jewish
settlers living in
Palestine?
•Israel
How did the U.S. maintain
an adequate supply of
products for the war effort?
• Rationing: each family
received a monthly
allowance of essential items
(sugar, gasoline, meat)
How did the Roosevelt
administration finance
World War II?
• War bonds
• The federal income
tax
What African-American
leader led the fight
for desegregation of
the armed forces and
equal hiring in defense jobs.
• A Philip Randolph
What was the Selective
Service Act?
• 1940 law which established
the first peacetime draft in
American history
What happened to most
Japanese-Americans during
World War II?
• Relocated to internment
camps, where they were
required to stay until the
end of the war
What was the role of the
American media and
entertainment industries
during World War II?
• Promoted Nationalism
Define nationalism.
• A strong feeling of
patriotism or devotion to
one’s country