Pearl Harbor - December 7 1941, Japanese retaliation for embargo, resulted in U.S. entering WWII, Justification of War - economic and political interdependence of nations; stop spread of totalitarian governments, Victory Gardens - support war effort by increasing food supply, Women - took on new roles to support the war effort, joined nurse cadets, and worked in factories to keep up production , Japanese-American Internment Camps - violated liberties of Japanese-American citizens provided by the 14th Amendment, Navajo Code Talkers - transmitted secret military information, Vernon Baker - AA veteran of WWII, received Medal of Honor, The Holocaust - the Nazi attempt at the genocide of Jewish people, caused many Jews to migrate to America, Atomic Bomb - a new strategic weapon developed at Los Alamos, New Mexico; Japan surrendered after bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, resulted in arms race with Soviets, Bataan Death March - Japanese forced prisoners to undertake a 60-mile march through the jungle, prisoners faced starvation, disease, exposure to the sun, and no water. About 5,000 of the Americans, almost half, died along the way. Some were bayoneted, shot, beheaded or just left to die along the side of the road., Battle of Midway - Turning point of WWII in the Pacific Theatre, this battle halted the Japanese advance in the Pacific. , Hiroshima & Nagasaki - Atomic bombs were dropped on these two cities which led to the end of WWII., Radar - an applaction developed during the war which uses electro magnetic waves to detect moving object's range. altitude and direction. , D-Day - June 6, 1944-156,000 Allied troops fought on 5 beaches on the northwest coast of France at Normandy., Tuskegee Airmen - African-American fighter group in the Air Corps that provided escorts for pilots on bombing missions. , Executive order 9066 - This order permitted military commanders to require Japanese Americans to relocate to interior internment camps during WWII., War Bonds - In order to raise money needed to pay for the war the government issued these and encouraged citizens to buy them., Rationing - citizens regulated the amount of goods consumed or could buy to avoid shortages, Adolf Hitler - Nazi leader in Germany during WWII, Benito Mussolini - Italy's Fascist Party leader during WWII,

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