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2. president of the US who took over in 1945 and was
charged with engineering Japan's defeat
6. Allied invasion of Normandy, France carried out on
June 6, 1944, that allowed Allied troops to liberate
France from Nazi control
7. American attitude in 1920s and 1930s of more
concern with events at home than with global events
9. When Germany invaded in 1939, Britain and
France declared war.
10. 1941 legislation which allowed the US to loan or rent
weapons to warring countries while still claiming to be
neutral
11. The
atomic bomb.
Project was America's plan to create an
13. Executive Order 9066 ordered Americans of
descent to be imprisoned in internment camps
17. event which occurred after the Japanese captured the
Philippines and forced American and Filipino prisoners
of war to walk cross-country to a POW camp
18. commander of US ground troops in D-Day invasion
20. The Battle of
was the turning point battle in the
Pacific; after this battle, Japan was on the defensive.
21. commander of tanks in Belgium during World War II
22. In the Supreme Court case v. US, the Supreme
Court determined that Japanese internment was
constitutional.
24. one aspect of life on the home front that allowed
citizens to lend money to the government
25. The Allies in World War II were the US, the
Great Britain, and France.
Down
1. Because many men had been drafted,, went to
to leave their jobs once the war ended).
work in factories during World War II (but were expected
3. During World War II, many items like gasoline, rubber,
sugar, butter, and meat were
4. one of the two Japanese cities on which Allied troops
dropped atomic bombs
5. When Japan attacked,
World War II.
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in 1941, the US entered
8. African-American fighter pilot squadron in World War II
12. policy followed in response to German aggression:
belief that if Axis countries were allowed to have the
territory they had already taken, they would be satisfied
14. Allied strategy in the Pacific which consisted of taking
only strategically important islands, rather than trying to
take tiny little island in the Pacific
15. African-American winner of the Congressional Medal
of Honor in World War II
16. President Truman justified dropping the atomic bomb
because he said it would save American lives that would
be lost in a
of Japan.
19. American president during most of World War II
23. The Axis Powers in World War Il were Japan,
and Germany.

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