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LD SS WWII TEST
LD SS WWII CHAPTER 27 TEST
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1939 | Year War began |
| 1941 | Year US entered war |
| 1945 | Year war ended |
| ALLIED POWERS | Great Britain, US & Russia |
| AXIS POWERS | Germany, Italy, & Japan |
| ADOLF HITLER | Germany |
| ADOLF HITLER INVADED | POLAND, AUSTRIA, & CZECHOSLOVAKIA |
| BENITO MUSSOLINI | Italy |
| BENITO MUSSOLINI | Ethiopia & Albania |
| MILITARY LEADERS INCLUDING HIROHITO | Japan |
| MILITARY LEADERS INCLUDING HIROHITO | China and parts of Southern Asia |
| MUNICH AGREEMENT | Gave Germany land as long as they did not take anymore. |
| APPEASEMENT | Giving into the demands of someone so they will no longer bother you |
| US INVOLVEMENT BEFORE ENTERING WWII | Neutrality Acts, "Cash & Carry" Act, Lend-Lease Act & Embargo against Japan |
| NEUTRALITY ACTS | Laws that were established to have the United States not to take sides in the War. |
| "CASH AND CARRY" ACT | The US sold goods to the Allied powers as long as they carried it back to their countries |
| LEND-LEASE ACT | Lend Allied powers weapons and escorted them |
| EMBARGO AGAINST JAPAN | Refused to give the Japanese any goods. |
| EUROPEAN WAR | D-DAY |
| D-DAY | Allies launched an amphibious invasion of Normandy, France across the English Channel. Allies sandwiched Germans, won after seven weeks and moved to Paris. This was called the turning point of the War. |
| EUROPEAN WAR | Battle of the Bulge |
| BATTLE OF THE BULGE | Hitlers last effort to gain back lost land by invading neutral Belgium. Hitler succeeded in creating a bulge in the allied lines. Allies sent reinforcements and pushed Hitler back. Marched onto Germany. |
| EUROPEAN WAR | V-E Day |
| V-E DAY | The Soviets went West and other allies went East to capture Berlin. Hitler committed suicide. Germany surrendered. |
| EUROPEAN WAR | Holocaust |
| HOLOCAUST | The US government could have done a lot more. Roosevelt could have made the war refugee boar earlier. US planes could have boomed the camps. |
| GLOBAL WAR | Nuremberg Trials |
| NUREMBERG TRIALS | Said people were responsible for their actions during the war |
| PACIFIC WAR | Attack at Pearl Harbor |
| ATTACK AT PEARL HARBOR | Japanese boomed the naval base in Hawaii. The day after the US joined WWII |
| PACIFIC WAR | "Island Hopping" strategy |
| "ISLAND HOPPING" STRATEGY | Attack less-defended islands, hop over others. Use those islands attacked as air bases to attack more heavily armed islands. |
| PACIFIC WAR | Battle of Midway |
| BATTLE OF MIDWAY | Japan attacked a US island but the US found out about it and prepared a counter-attack. US won and now had the upper hand. |
| PACIFIC WAR | Battle of Iwo Jima |
| BATTLE OF IWO JIMA | US needed an airbase. Invaded and won. Difficult to see the enemy. They built caves and tunnels throughout the island. Refused to surrender. 23,000/24,000 Japanese killed |
| PACIFIC WAR | Use of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| USE OF TWO ATOMIC BOMBS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI (IN FAVOR) | Save US soldiers. Japan was destroying American ships. |
| USE OF TWO ATOMIC BOMBS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI (AGAINST) | Japan was close to surrendering. US was killing civilians |
| EXECUTIVE ORDER 9066 | Internment of Japanese Americans |
| REASON FOR INTERNMENT | The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor made the US government believe all Japanese people were spies |
| DESCRIPTION OF INTERNMENT PROCESS | Japanese Americans could only carry hand luggage and were sent to internment camps in Western states. |
| APOLOGY/REPARATIONS | There was originally no reparations, however, in 1988 Congress considered a bill to pay any surviving Japanese Americans $20,000 |
| ROLE OF WOMEN | Start working in factories, the work force, and the labor force (ex: Rosie the Riveter) |
| ROLE/TREATMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICANS | Took military positions, fought in segregated units, & got involved in the war industry |
| OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION | Rationing Program & Price Ceilings |
| RATIONING PROGRAM | Limited the amount of goods someone could buy at the store |
| PRICE CEILINGS | It increased the amount of inflation and set a maximum price on goods. |
| VICTORY GARDENS | Gardens planted in backyards to grow fruits and vegetables for the family. |
| WAR PRODUCTION BOARD | Supervised the conversion of industry to war production |
| CENSORSHIP | The US government blacked out information that was important. |
| ROLE/TREATMENT OF MEXICAN AMERICANS | Bracero Program - asked Mexicans to come to America in the war efforts. Discriminated. |
| HOW DID THE ECONOMIC SITUATION LEAD TO THE RISE OF DICTATORSHIPS? | US and its Allies foreign policy after WWI was to isolationist and still insisted on receiving war reparations. Economic distress caused the rise of dictators as a distraction to their countries. |
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