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World War 2
US History STAAR EOC Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| War Bonds | Helped the government raise funds for the war effort. |
| Flying Tigers | Group of American volunteer fight pilots who helped keep supply lines open in China. |
| Lend-Lease Act | Allowed for the U.S. to sell, lease, or lend war materials to any country deemed vital to the defense of the United States. |
| Appeasement | The policy of giving in to satisfy the demand of a potential enemy. |
| Rationing | Regulated the amount of goods that consumers could obtain, therefore sharing in the sacrifices of war. |
| Battle of Midway | Considered a major turning point in the war in the Pacific; putting the Japanese on the defensive and the U.S. on the offensive. |
| Executive Order 9066 | Required Japanese-Americans to be relocated to internment camps because they were seen as a threat to national security. |
| Tuskegee Airmen | African-American fighter group in the Air Corps who provided escorts for pilots on bombing missions. |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944; Allied invasion of Normandy, France and seen as a turning point. |
| Blitzkreig | Germany fighting strategy also known as "lightening war". |
| Holocaust | Attempted genocide of the Jews during WW2 which led to the killing of over 6 million Jews. |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of the Nazi party, took power in Germany and aimed to achieve German domination. |
| Pearl Harbor | U.S. naval base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941 |
| Neutrality Acts | A series of laws passed by Congress to keep the U.S out of war. |
| Office of War Information | Produced pro-Allied, anti-Axis, propaganda posters, movies, and radio programs to make citizens aware of how they could help the war effort. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Supreme allied commander responsible for the D-Day Invasion. |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Japanese cities that were targeted for the dropping of the A-bomb. |
| Island Hopping | Successful U.S. war strategy in the Pacific where the one island is taken at a time. |
| Navajo Code Talkers | Native Americans who were used to send messages in the military because their language could not be deciphered. |
| Douglas MacArthur | led U.S. forces in the Pacific, gradually rook control using the strategy of island-hopping. |
| Baatan Death March | Filipino and U.S. prisoners forced to mark 60 miles through the jungles without food and water. |
| Harry Truman | President who made the decision to use the new atomic weapon on Japan to prevent the loss of more American lives. |
| Victory Gardens | Americans grow their own fruits and vegetables in order to conserve the food supply. |
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