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• Women’s Roles During WWII Women worked as factory workers, volunteered for the Red Cross, and served in the military. • Outcomes of President Truman’s Atomic Bombs on Japan Japan surrendered, ending WWII, and it initiated a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union. • Event Leading U.S. Entry into WWII The Japanese surprise attack on U.S. military forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which resulted in 2,400 deaths and 2,500 injuries. • Location of Hawaii Hawaii is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. • Define “Island Hopping” A U.S. military strategy to recapture islands from the Japanese and push toward the Japanese homeland. • Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? Black airplane pilots, mostly college-educated. Due to their heroism and discrimination they faced, President Truman desegregated the military after WWII. • Countries Attacked by Axis Powers to Provoke WWII a. Italy invaded Ethiopia and supported the fascist regime in the Spanish Civil War. b. Germany invaded Poland and the Soviet Union. c. Japan invaded Manchuria (China) and attacked Pearl Harbor. • U.S. Involvement in WWII From 1941 to 1945. • What Was the Manhattan Project? A top-secret plan to develo...