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Giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace
a) Containment Policy
b) Appeasement
c) Domino Theory
d) Great Britain and Germany

1942; WWII battle between Japan and the U.S.; turning point in the war in the Pacific
a) Pearl Harbor
b) Island Hopping
c) Battle of Midway
d) South Pacific Campaign

U.S. general (Allied Supreme Commander) who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany
a) Dwight Eisenhower
b) General MacArthur
c) Franklin D. Roosevelt
d) General Nemitz

FDR ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps
a) Peral Harbor
b) Holocaust
c) December 7, 1941
d) Executive Order 9066

Group of American volunteer fighter pilots to supply China and fight Japanese aircraft
a) Tuskegee Airmen
b) Red Tails
c) Flying Tigers
d) Flying Patriots

Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan)
a) Harry Truman
b) Lyndon B. Johnson
c) Dwight Eisenhower
d) Herbert Hoover

Dropping the atomic bomb on these two Japanese cities ended the war between Japan and the U.S.
a) Berlin/London
b) Hiroshima/Nagasaki
c) Hiroshima/Berlin
d) Nagasaki/Peral City

Upheld the constitutionality of the relocation of Japanese Americans as a wartime necessity
a) Plessy v. Ferguson
b) Schenck v us
c) Korematsu v. U.S.
d) Korematsu v. FDR

Allowed America to sell, lend, or lease arms or other supplies to nations considered vital to the defense of the United States
a) Truman Doctrine
b) Marshall Plan
c) Neutrality Acts
d) Lend Lease Act

Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bombs; early research done in New York City by refugee physicists in the U.S.
a) Manhattan Project
b) Executive Order 9066
c) Atomic Bomb Research Project
d) Truman Project

Native American Indians used their own language to make a code for the U.S. military that the Japanese could not decipher
a) Navajo Code talkers
b) Apache Code talkers
c) Code Talkers
d) Native American Indians Code Organization

A series of acts passed by Congress from 1935 to 1939 that aimed to keep the U.S. from becoming involved in WWII
a) Lend Lease Acts
b) Neutrality Acts
c) United States Neutral Acts of 1940s
d) Immigration Restrictions Acts

Japan bombed the U.S. military base on December 7, 1941, bringing the United States into WWII
a) Executive Order 9066
b) Hiroshima/Nagasaki
c) Pearl Harbor
d) Battle of Midway Island

Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military
a) Office of War Information
b) Office of War Food Restriction
c) Conservation Food Program
d) Rationing

All black squadron of fighter pilots that successfully protected every bomber it escorted during WWII
a) Tuskegee Airmen
b) Flying Tigers
c) Red Tails
d) African American Fighter Pilot Group

African American who later received the congressional medal of honor for his service in WWII
a) Thurgood Marshall
b) Alvin York
c) Vernon Baker
d) Martin Luther King Jr.

Gardens planted by American citizens during war to raise vegetables for home use, leaving more food for the troops during WWII
a) Rationing Victory Gardens
b) Patriotic Gardens
c) War Gardens
d) Victory Gardens

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