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Naftel Warm-up #3
Term | Definition |
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D-day | Operation Overlord day allies invaded France |
Omar Bradley | American General in charge of D-day Kamikaze |
Battle of the Buldge | last German offensive |
VE Day | Victory in Europe day Germans surrender |
Nurenburg Trials | 1st time in history after WWll tried Germans and some Japanese |
Marshall Plan | American tax payers rebuilt Europe to prevent WWIII stop spread of communism |
Bataan Death March | WWll philippines japan took american and philipine soldiers hostage made march to depot |
Island Hopping | skip around heavily armed islands created by MacArthur |
MacArthur | American General in charge of army in the pacific theatre |
Numitz | Admiral in charge of Navy |
Pearl Harbor | Dec 7, 1941 b/c of sending supplies to other countries and put embargo on japan |
Admiral Yamamoto | planned pearl harbor said it was a bad idea |
Battle of Britian | Germany vs. Brittian air battle Brittian won |
Winston Churchill | prime minister during WWll |
Eisenhower | supreme allied commander |
Patton | 3 star general in charge of 3rd star division |
Allied Powers | Soviet Union Brittian US France Russia |
FDR | 4 terms NEw York |
Degaul | French WWll |
Axis Powers | Italy Germany Japan |
Mussolini | Italian leader WWll |
Hitler | Germany |
Lend-lease Act | Before pear harbor Battle of B = lend or lease anything but troops (B, China, India) |
Mobilization | getting ready for war |
Internment | (camps) prisoned Japanese worried about spies after pearl harbor middle of country |