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1940s Unit 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| weimar republic | democrat govt in Germany after WWI |
| totalitarianism | govt has complete control over everyone, no rights and suppression of opposition |
| fascism | totalitarianism + interest of state is above individuals |
| black shirts | mussolini followers |
| brown shirts | hitler's guys |
| lebensraum | living space; what hitler wanted |
| anschluss | union of austria and germany;violated treaty; allies did nothing |
| sudetenland | area in czechoslovakia controlled by germany; brit/france protected czechs |
| munich conference | sudetenland given to germany; symbol of "appeasement" |
| non-agression pact | signed by hitler + stalin to divide poland; started war between sov. union & germany |
| war began in? | poland |
| blitzkrieg 3 parts | aircraft, tanks, foot soldiers |
| phony war | sitzkrieg for both sides |
| marginal line | france defense line on border w/ germany |
| nye committee | congress wants to get into war for business interests |
| neutrality acts | banned shipment of arms/supplies to all countries |
| dunkirk | france rescues british army at this city; mistake by hitler |
| charles de gaulle | makes french govt while imprisoned in london |
| battle of britain | air battle |
| st louis | german ship of jews trying to escape |
| cash & carry | nations could buy US arms if they paid cash and did own transportation |
| destroyers for bases | US trades 50 destroyers for british bases |
| selective training and service act | 1st peacetime military draft |
| arsenal of democracy | FDR wants to supply other countries to deafeat the axis |
| lend-lease | US lent stuff to countries whose defense was vital for us |
| 6/41 | hitler invades USSR |
| U-boats | german submarines |
| atlantic charter | FDR & Churchill determine work after the war |
| kimmel | navy commander |
| short | army commander |
| 1/24/41 | frank knox predicts pearl harbor |
| New japanese tech. | torpedo, fighter planes (ZERO) |
| hull note | demand that japan leaves indochina; they think we wanna fight |
| robert's commission | govt investigates pearl harbor; kimmel and short |
| yamamoto | planner of pearl harbor |
| doolittle raid | first bombing of japan from US |
| Tojo | japanese prime minister, leader of army |
| US troops in war | 15 million |
| henry kaiser | built ships quickly |
| # women in workforce | 6 million |
| A. Philip Randolph | black man; fought discrimination in the military and work force |
| operation torch | invade north africa to fight germany |
| name US carriers: | yorktown, hornet, enterprise |
| AF | midway island |
| point luck | meeting place of 3 us carriers |
| Iwo Jima | brought Japan into easy air range of our bombs |
| macarthur | replacing army commander |
| nimitz | replacing navy commander |
| biggest kamikaze attack at: | okinawa |
| 1st US offensive site | gaudalcanal |
| coral sea: 1st time that | japanese invasion was stopped, saving aussies |
| GI bill | gave education and training to veterans |
| oppenheimer | lead scientist in manhattan project |
| manhattan project | creation of atomic bomb |
| yalta conference | last meeting of big three |
| big three | churchill, FDR, stalin |
| nuremberg trials | trials of nazis |
| battle of the bulge | german counter-attack; many germans died |
| v-e day | victory in europe;war over |
| movies considered essential? | yes |
| lots of employment? | yes |
| wages and price controls used? | yes |
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