World War ll Vocabulary

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  1. 4. a German counteroffensive in the Ardennes aimed at preventing an Allied invasion of Germany, in late 1944–early 1945.
  2. 6. the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.
  3. 10. the activity of traveling from one island to another, especially as a tourist in an area of small islands
  4. 11. a harbor on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii, the site of a major US naval base, where a surprise attack on December 7, 1941, by Japanese carrier-borne aircraft inflicted heavy damage and brought the US into World War II.
  5. 15. required that men between the ages of 21 and 35 register with local draft boards.
  6. 16. the act or action of appeasing someone or something a policy of appeasing an enemy or potential aggressor by making concessions
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  1. 1. The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place from 4–7 June 1942
  2. 2. were laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars.
  3. 3. U.S. Supreme Court case concerning the forced relocation and confinement of Japanese Americans in the 1940s
  4. 5. American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of
  5. 7. the code name for the American project set up in 1942 to develop an atom bomb. The project culminated in 1945 with the detonation of the first nuclear weapon, at White Sands in New Mexico.
  6. 8. Act to Promote the Defense of the United States
  7. 9. were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949
  8. 12. The second bomb was drop on _ at 11:02 am
  9. 13. a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war.
  10. 14. World War II conflict between the United States and the Empire of Japan