Chapter 25 - World War II 1941-1945

US Navy

The ________ stopped Japan's plans for the invasion of Hawaii and Australia in the Pacific that summer.

Japan

________ took Manchuria out of China in September 1931.

bracero program

The ________, negotiated by the United States and Mexico in 1942, brought over 200, 000 Mexicans to the U.S. for short- term jobs, mainly as agricultural and railway workers.

1939

Prior to the outbreak of the European War in ________, the majority of 200, 000 men in the military patrolled the borders of Mexico or took colonial possession.

Pacific

The ________ posed serious threats beyond enemy fire although the European Theater had the greatest number of victims.

U.S.

The ________ began regaining naval superiority in the Central Pacific six months after Pearl Harbor.

American

________ aircraft fought at sea during the Pearl Harbor Angle, which was shown by luck in the big Coral Sea Nave Battle of May 7 to 8, 1942, when American carriers blocked a japanese thrust into Australia.

Roosevelt

moved the Pacific fleet from its base in the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in May 1940

War boom

saw personal incomes rise and for the first time since the depression many young couples had set up households

By 1944

black soldiers accounted for 10 per cent of the military, and around 1 million African Americans in total served in the military in the Second World War

Pearl Harbor Angle

shown by luck in the big Coral Sea Nave Battle of May 7 to 8, 1942, when American carriers blocked a japanese thrust into Australia