(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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A program where the U.S. supplied the Allies with war materials before officially joining the fight, acting as the "Arsenal of Democracy."
Lend-Lease Act
American volunteer pilots who flew for the Chinese Air Force against Japanese invaders before the U.S. officially entered the war.
Flying Tigers
:A slogan used by African Americans meaning "Victory abroad over Nazism" and "Victory at home over racism."
Double V Campaign
(Dec 7, 1941): A surprise Japanese aerial attack on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii, which pulled the United States directly into the conflict.
Pearl Harbor
The year the U.S. entered the war following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1941
(June 6, 1944): The massive Allied amphibious invasion of Normandy, France, which opened the "Second Front" in Europe and led to the liberation of Western Europe.
D-day
The U.S. President who led the nation through the Great Depression and most of WWII; he died in office just before the war ended.
FDR
(1939): The event that triggered WWII; Germany used "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war) tactics to quickly overwhelm Polish defenses.
Invasion of Poland
The fascist dictator of Italy and Hitler’s primary European ally until his ousting in 1943.
Mussolini
A cultural icon representing the millions of women who entered the industrial workforce to build planes and ships.
Rosie the Riveter
The B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb ("Little Boy") on Hiroshima.
Enola Gay
The British Prime Minister known for his "bulldog" resolve and stirring speeches that rallied the UK during the Blitz.
Winston Churchill
FDR’s successor who made the monumental decision to use atomic weapons against Japan to end the war.
Harry Truman
The alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan.
Axis Powers
The forced 60-mile march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese, characterized by extreme brutality and thousands of deaths.
Bataan death march
FDR's order that authorized the forced relocation and internment of over 110,000 Japanese Americans during the war.
Executive Order 9066
The first African American military aviators in the U.S. Armed Forces, who compiled an exemplary record of escorting bombers over Europe.
Tuskegee Airmen
An African American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for his extraordinary heroism in Italy (awarded decades later due to initial racial bias).
Vernon Baker
The peace treaty ending WWI; its harsh economic and territorial demands on Germany created the resentment that Hitler exploited to rise to power.
Treaty of Versailles
The Supreme Allied Commander in Europe who orchestrated the D-Day invasion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The dictator of Nazi Germany whose expansionist ideology and racial theories sparked the war and the Holocaust.
Hitler
The "turning point" in the Pacific; the U.S. Navy sank four Japanese carriers, halting Japan's expansion and shifting the momentum.
Battle of Midway
The alliance primarily led by the U.S., Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China.
Allied Powers
The U.S. strategy in the Pacific of capturing key islands one by one to create a path toward the Japanese mainland.
Island hopping
Citizens grew their own food (Victory Gardens
Victory Gardens
: Native Americans who used their unwritten language to create an unbreakable code for U.S. communications in the Pacific.
Navajo Code Talkers
The U.S. General in charge of the Pacific theater, famous for his promise to return to the Philippines and overseeing the occupation of Japan.
Douglas MacArthur
Loans made by citizens to the government to help fund the massive costs of the war.
War Bonds
limited their consumption of sugar, meat, and gasoline (Rationing) to ensure soldiers had enough supplies.
rationing
The two Japanese cities destroyed by atomic bombs in August 1945, leading to Japan's unconditional surrender.
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The state-sponsored, systematic murder of 6 million Jews and millions of others by the Nazi regime.
Holocaust
FDR’s address outlining the goals of the war: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Four freedoms Speech
A series of military tribunals held after the war to prosecute Nazi leaders for "crimes against humanity," establishing the principle of individual accountability for war crimes.
Nuremburg Trials
: A series of racial conflicts in 1943 between U.S. servicemen and Mexican American youths in Los Angeles.
Zoot Suit Riots
The top-secret U.S. research project that developed the first atomic bombs.
Manhattan Project
The official years of the global conflict.
1939-1945
