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WWII Flashcards
Question | Answer |
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Statement of Allied war aims issued by FDR and Churchill | Atlantic Charter |
Site at which the US fleet was largely destroyed | Pearl Harbor |
Places where Japanese-Americans were interned on the West Coast | WRA camps |
American commander in the Southern Pacific | Douglas MacArthur |
Peninsula where thousands of American prisoners of war died due to their treatment by the Japanese | Bataan |
Senator who investigated armament sales and manufacture during WWI and accused that WWI had been fought to benefit financiers and arms-manufacturers | Gerald Nye |
Republican appointed as Secretary of War by FDR in a coalition government | Henry Stimson |
Secretary of State negotiating with Japanese diplomats at the time of Pearl Harbor | Cordell Hull |
British prime minister who thought he had achieved "peace in our time" at Munich | Neville Chamberlain |
Naval battle was the turning point in the Pacific where the US sank four Japanese aircrafts | Midway |
African-American leader who pressured FDR to assure that Blacks would not be discriminated against in employment in defense industries | A. Philip Randolph |
Defeated by FDR in 1940 | Wendell Wilkie |
Defeated by FDR in 1944 | Thomas Dewey |
Prominent member of America First Committee | Charles Lindbergh |
Supreme commander of allied forces in Europe | Dwight D. Eisenhower |