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WWII
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Benito Mussolini- | Fascist Dictator of Italy |
| Adolf Hitler- | Chancellor and Dictator of Nazi Germany |
| Joseph Stalin- | Premier of The Soviet Union |
| Winston Churchill- | Prime Minister of War-time Great Britain |
| FDR- | U.S. war-time president |
| Hideki Tojo- | Japan's war-time prime minister |
| American isolationism- | The U.S. policy of remaining neutral and uninvolved in foreign affairs |
| How did Germany “unify” with Austria? | German troops marched into Austria unopposed |
| What did the Munich agreement state? | That Germany would control the Sudetenland |
| Describe the nonaggression pact | That Germany and The Soviet Union would not go to war with each other |
| What was Hitler’s final solution? | a plan to "exterminate" Jews |
| How did many American’s react to the thought of Jewish refugees coming into the U.S.? | That they might take much-needed jobs |
| Did FDR know about Hitler’s final solution? | Yes |
| What was the cash and carry policy the U.S. held? | That nations (Britain and France) could get arms from the U.S. as long as they paid cash |
| Axis Powers- | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Allies- | Great Britain, France, US, USSR |
| Lend-lease plan- | Passed after the Neutrality Act once the US realized Great Britain might fall to the Germans. The U.S. lent or leased arms to countries (Britain & USSR) who were vital to the protection of democracy |
| What was the Atlantic charter? | FDR and Churchill agreed on post-War plans--A collective security organization (UN), free trade, self-determination. |
| What did the Japanese do to mislead the U.S. before Pearl Harbor? | They continued peace negotiations as the attack on Pearl Harbor had already started |
| What was the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor? | 12/7/1941 |
| Who declared war on the U.S. after the US declared war on Japan? | Germany |
| Why did the U.S. need to use a draft during WWII? | They needed a lot of soldiers to fight a two-front war |
| What did the WAAC do for the armed forces? | Served in non-combat positions such as; nurses |
| What was surprising about the fact that minorities joined the military? | Minorities joined the war effort despite the fact they experienced discrimination in the US |
| What was the job of the War Production Board? | To converted factories to produce war-time products and determine how raw materials would be used. |
| How did women and minorities help at home? | They took over jobs of those soldiers who were overseas |
| What types of things were people rationing during the war? | Sugar, oil, rubber |
| Battle of the Atlantic- | A battle marked by the sinking of British shipping that was won by the Allies by the use of sonar |
| Stalingrad- | A house by house battle fought between Germany and the U.S.S.R. where the Soviet Union's success proved that Germany could be defeated. |
| Operation Torch- | The Allied invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa |
| D-Day- (date and Omaha Beach) | 6/6/1944 |
| Battle of the Bulge- | The last ditch effort of the German's to try and break Allied forces |
| Omaha Beach | American landing zone in Normandy where the Americans suffered major losses to take the beach. |
| V-E day (date)- | 5/8/1945 |
| FDR’s successors name- | Harry S. Truman |
| Doolittle’s Raid- | A US Pearl-Harbor Style attack on Tokyo |
| Battle of the Coral Sea- | The first Japanese Invasion that had been stopped. Fought with aircraft from aircraft carriers. Japanese turned away from Australia. |
| Battle of Midway- | U.S. broke Japanese codes. Turning point that stopped Japanese progress towards an invasion of Hawaii. Japanese suffered major naval losses. |
| Iwo Jima- | "Sulfur-Island" was a heavily guarded Japanese island that was marked by Japanese tunnels |
| Okinawa- | The last island battle in the Pacific prior to planning the invasion of the Japanese Islands. Japanese lost 110,000 soldiers and 140,000 civilians were killed. |
| Zoot suiters | Mexican-Americans who wore zoot suits (they had lots of extra fabric and were seen as unpatriotic) |
| Japanese Internment | The relocation of over 120 Japanese and Japanese Americans living in the US from the West Coast to locations in the interior of the US. |
| V-J Day | August 15, 1945 (day the Japanese surrendered) or September 2, 1945 (official signing of Japanese surrender) |
| Enola Gay | Airplane that dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima |
| Two cities in Japan that were bombed by the atomic bomb | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Hirohito | Japan's Emperor |
| Manhattan Project | The code name for the US project to create the atomic bomb. |
| Robert Oppenheimer | Led the Manhattan Project |
| Neutrality Acts | Initial acts passed by US government to try to stay out of the war in Europe. |
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