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WWII- part II
American Homefront
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| War Bonds | the govt. encouraged citizens to buy the bonds to pay for the war effort |
| volunteerism-citlaly | the willingness of millions of Americans to help in the war effort |
| Rationing- citlaly | regulates the amount of goods that a consumer could obtain to ensure supplies for soldiers |
| Ration Coupons-citlaly | packets that were given to families (depending on size) to regulate the amount of food that they could buy |
| Victory gardens - citlaly | vegetable gardens that Americans planted in homes to make sure that there was enough food for both troops and civilians |
| Blitzkreig-denisse | German attack style that consisted of rapid coordinated movements by airplanes,tanks,troops carriers, and infantry |
| Neutrality acts-denisse | Prohibited Americans from traveling on the ship's of nations at war |
| Cash and carry-denisse | Americans could sell non-military good to Britain and other nations opposed to aggression, but they had to carry on their own ships and pay in cash |
| Quarantine speech-denisse | FDR warned Americans of the growing unrest in the world and told them that peaceful nations had to act together to quarantine aggressive nations like Japan |
| WACS (Amanda) | Women were enlisting in the armed forces in the military in large numbers, shipbuilding and aircraft production. |
| Flying tigers-denisse | American pilots recruited to send supplies and to engage in combat with Japanese pilots in Asia |
| African Americans (Amanda) | These people were forced to serve in segregated units like the Tuskegee Airmen, and won awards for bravery. |
| Native Americans (Amanda) | These people enlisted for military service in a higher proportions than any other minority group and served as code talkers. |
| Lend lease act-denisse | US drew closer to ending isolationism with the program to lease, or lend war materials to British using American ships crossing the Atlantic with supplies |
| Mexican Americans (Amanda) | These people served in both the army and navy, and fought in all of the major campaigns, yet faced discrimination at home. |
| Four freedoms-denisse | Freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear |
| Executive Order 9066 (Amanda) | This order permitted military commanders to require Japanese Americans to relocate to interior internment camps away from Western coastal regions. |
| Winston churchill-denisse | Prime Minister of England who inspired his country to resist German bombings and continue to fight until the US entered the war |
| Atlantic charter- denisse | US-British agreement to work to end colonial rule, ensure safe passage of shipping, and free trade |
| George Patton (Amanda) | Was US commander of the forces that invaded North Africa and Sicily and later Germany using tanks and moving quickly. |
| Vernon Baker (Amanda) | Was one of the first African American soldiers to see contact in the war and win Medal of Honor. |
| Batman Death March (Amanda) | The Japanese forced their US prisoners to undertake a 60 mile march through the jungle that killed many of them. |
| Island hopping (Amanda) | US strategy of liberating Pacific islands from Japanese control, one at a time, skipping over some. |
| George C. Marshall (Amanda) | This general acted as Chief of Staff of the Army and the "organizer of the victory" in Europe, also helped rebuild it. |
| Nuremberg Trials (Amanda) | Criminal War trials for individuals responsible for their actions, like Nazi soldiers, even in times of war. |
| D-day Aaron a | 156,000 allied troops under the command of general Dwight Eisenhower began the invasion by landing at five beaches on the northwest coast of France at Normandy on June 6, 1944 |
| Dwight Eisenhower-Aaron a | Led the US invasion at Normandy |
| Normandy-Aaron a | Northwest coast of France where D-Day began |
| Omar bradley - Aaron a | Led the first American army to land in France |
| battle of the bulge-citlaly | the Alies were counter-attacked by germany in Dec. 1944 in a last effort to keep Allies from advancing into Germany |
| Genocide -citlaly | the effort to murder an entire people or nationality |
| Navajo Code Talkers-Estrada | Americans used the unwritten and complex language of the Navajos to transmit messages by phone & radio in a code the Japanese could not break |
| Battle of Midway- Estrada | the US was able to decipher the Japanese radio codes and defeated a surprise attack in a sea battle that was the turning point in the war for the Pacific Ocean |
| Chester Nimitz-Estrada | commander in chief of the US Pacific Fleet |
| Albert Einstein-Estrada | German immigrant who wrote President Roosevelt to convince him to build an atomic bomb before Germany did |
| Harry Truman-Estrada | vice president who took over after FDR's death and used atomic bombs to convince Japan to surrender |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki-Estrada | 2 Japanese cities attacked with nuclear weapons by the US |
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