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| A U.S. Navy base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese killing over 2,403 Americans , wounding 1,178 more, damaging 21 ships, and destroying 300 aircraft. This Japanese attack took the United States officially into World War II. |
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| Internment of Japanese-Americans |
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| Fears of spies and sabotage led to prejudice and sometimes violence against Japanese Americans. In the name of national security, Roosevelt ordered all people of Japanese ancestry be moved to rural prison camps. |
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| As outlined in Adolf Hitler's semi-autobiographical work Mein Kampf (My Struggle), the Nazi party believed in German superiority - economically, militarily, socially, and "racially." |
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| Planned internment, enslavement, and murder of Jews and other religious and ethnic minorities perpetrated by Hitler's Nazi party. By the end of WWII approximately 10 million people had been killed. |
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| An attempt by the United States to aid the Allies financially during World War II without violating its Neutral status. |
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| A mandatory government conservation program implemented to focus most resources to the WWII military effort. Each household received a "c book" with coupons to be used when buying scarce items such as meat, sugar, and coffee. Gas rationing was also used to help save gasoline for military use. |
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| In order to meet the supply needs of the US military, many factories were converted from civilian to military purposes. |
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| The Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, on June 6, 1944. It remains the largest seaborne invasion in history with over 156,000 men crossing the English Channel in 6,939 vessels. It was a turning point toward victory for the Allies. |
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| The location of a secret laboratory used by the United States to invent the atomic bomb. |
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| The location where meetings of Allied leaders (Churchill, Stalin, FDR/Truman) to place. The discussions involved plans for post-war Europe. |
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| This European Recovery Program was America's main program for rebuilding Western Europe and opposing communism after World War II. Under the plan, the United States spent thirteen billion dollars on economic and technical assistance for the war-torn democratic European countries that had been nearly destroyed during World War II. |
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| The General appointed as the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Japan following WWII. During the four years following WWII, he worked with the Japanese government to draft a constitution, institute democratic reforms, reduce the size of the Japanese military, and privatize companies formerly run by the government. |
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