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ALHSGE VII
study questions for history
Term | Definition |
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Hiroshima | Place where 1st atomic bomb was dropped on Japan |
D-Day | Allied invasion of Normandy |
Pearl Harbor | Japanese surprise^attack on US Navy in Hawaii |
Munich Conference | Resulted in appeasement of Hitler by Britain and France |
Rosie the Riveter | Example of women helpingthe war effort |
Franklin Roosevelt | United States president during the Depression and WWII |
Joseph Stalin | Communist dictator of Soviet Union |
Winston Churchill | British prime minister |
Adolf Hitler | Nazi dictator of Germany |
Benito Mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy |
Stalingrad | Battle-where Nazi advance was stopped in USSR |
Midway | Pacific battle that began US island hopping |
North Africa | Allied campaign to regain the Sahara desert |
Gen. Mac Arthur | Allied leader of the Pacific theatre |
Gen. Eisenhower | Allied leader of European theatre |
Holocaust | Nazi extermination of European Jews |
Allies | USA, France, Great Britain, Soviet Union |
Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
Neutrality | US policy at the beginning of WWI and WWII |
Rationing | Reducing usage of valuable goods |
Internment | Policy of confining Japanese-Americans during WWII |
Poland | Nazi invasion caused WWII to start in 1939 |
Concentration camp | Nazi déath camp |
Nagasaki | Place where 2nd atomic bomb was dropped on Japan |
Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilot |