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America at war
America enters the war
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Albert einstein | jewish-german scientist that shows USA how to make an atomic bomb |
| anti semitism | discrimination against jews and killing them |
| atlantic charter | the begging of the united nations |
| bataan death march | the walking of american soldiers that were prisoners, inhumanely. |
| battle of Guadalcanal | destroy japanese airfields |
| battle of normandy | retake europe from the west |
| battle of okinawa | the last obstacle before we can attack japan itself |
| battle of stalingrad | the biggest turning point of the war |
| battle of the bulge | the battle of the bulge in france, usa and britain are extremely close to germany |
| ghettos | the jewish towns made by the nazis |
| harry truman | the vice president that takes over after roosevelt dies, instantly |
| henry ford | goes from a card factory to a war plane factory |
| hiroshima | the target of the atomic bomb, serious damage from one atom bomb |
| holocaust | the mass killing of the jews |
| internment camps | the US government was worried about japanese discrimination, so they put them these camps that were concentration like |
| manhattan project | the secret making of the first ever atom bomb |
| rationing | people only got so much of everything |
| rosie the riveter | the idol for women to join the work force |
| selective service an training act | when you're 18, you are forced to sign a paper so if a war breaks out and if people are needed, they randomly choose soliders |
| shortages | mainly in metals and rubber |
| victory gardens | grown so people don't have to spend their cards, plus can eat more |
| women's role during war | build war goods |
| african americans during WWII | also to build war goods |
| auschitz | biggest concentration camp, killing 12k jews daily |
| ending the war in europe | usa and russia squish hitler to berlin, where he eventually kills himself |
| ending war in pacific | bombing japan twice with the world's strongest bomb at the time |
| financing war | usa mainly pays european countries excluding the axis to win the war |
| nagasaki | the second target for the atom bomb, forcing the japs to surrrender |
| nuremberg law | strips jews of their rights |
| kristallnacht | night of broken glass, the first big footstep in to the holocaust |
| transport to concentration camps | theyd pack jews into a cattle cart |
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