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World War II
Review for World War II test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Rosie the Riveter | Symbol boosting morale of women who 'could' do jobs while men were away at war |
| Victory Gardens | Family or school gardens that produced food needed due to scarcity |
| Navajo Code Talkers | Contribution by native Americans that made it possible to communicate on radio without the Japanese understanding messages |
| Tuskeegee Airmen | African American fighter pilots that were extremely successful |
| Executive Order 8891 | Truman recognized African American accomplishments during WWII, and because of this he desegregated the military after the war in 1948 with this order |
| Battle of Iwo Jima | Bloody Battle in Feb.-March 1945 that resulted in almost 25,000 US casualties, 25,000Japanese died, only 216 Japanese survived the battle |
| Manhattan Project | Top secret operation to create nuclear weapons during World War II |
| Hiroshima | The first Japanese city to be hit by an atomic bomb |
| Nagasaki | The second Japanese city to be hit by an atomic bomb |
| Battle of Midway | Fought just a little over 6 months after Pearl Harbor the Japanese would lose 4 air craft carriers |
| Battle of Britain | Air war fought over Britain in 1940 that was a narrow victory for Britain |
| Anschluss | Germany annexation of Austria in 1938 |
| Munich Agreement | Great Britain and France 'appeased' or gave in to Hitlers demands to take Czechoslovakia with this agreement |
| Kamikaze | Suicide planes flown by Japanese pilots to crash into American Ships |
| Okinawa | Bloody battle fought on a Japanese island, US casualties were more than 12,500 killed and 39,000 wounded, the Japanese losses were almost 250,000, US lost 36 ships sunk during the battle |
| September 1st 1939 | Germany invades Poland, it was the day in history that is generally regarded as the beginning of World War II |
| Joseph Stalin | Dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II |
| Adolph Hitler | Dictator of Germany during World War II |
| Benito Mussolini | Dictator of Italy during World War II |
| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan during World War II |
| Tito | Military ruler of Japan during World War II |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR for short | President of the United States during most of World War II |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Britain during World War II |
| RAF | Royal Air Force, air force that successfully defended England during the Battle of Britain |
| Luftwaffe | German air force that lost the Battle of Britain |
| Operation Overlord | The planned invasion of France by Allied Forces |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 |
| Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's desperate assault on the Allied Forces in Belgium December of 1944 |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe, commonly recognized as May 8, 1945 |
| V-J Day | Commonly recognized as Victory over Japan Day; August 14, 1945 |
| Operation Barbarossa | Operation Red Beard, Germany's invasion to conquer the Soviet Union |
| St. Petersburg | Russian City laid siege to by Germany for over 900 days, more than half the population would die |
| Blitzkrieg | New method of fighting or 'lightening war' that Germany used to against Poland, France and Russia |
| Executive Order 9066 | Executive Order that FDR issued that would inter, or imprison more that 110,000 Japanese living the US during World War II |
| General Douglass MacArthur | American General who would retake the Philippines from the Japanese |
| Admiral Nimitz | American Admiral who developed the island hopping plan to take back most of the Pacific Islands from the Japanese |
| Holocaust | Systematic and state murder of more than six million Jews and others at the hands of the Nazis during World War II |
| Pearl Harbor | Japanese surprise attack on December 7, 1941 that brought the US into World War II |
| Doolittle's Raid | Just months after Pearl Harbor this bombing raid on Tokyo boosted American morale |
| Omar Bradley and George Patton | US Generals who led Operation Cobra that defeated the German Army in France and liberated Paris |
| Operation Torch | Allied Operation to liberate Africa from the Nazis |
| The Big Three | FDR, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin-Allied leaders who planned together to defeat the Axis Powers |
| Bataan Death March | American and Filipino soldiers who surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 were treated brutally and murdered on a march to a prison camp, nearly half of the 90,000 prisoners died |
| Operation Barbarossa | This was the code name for the German invasion of Russia in 1941 |
| Harry Truman | President who made the decision to drop nuclear bombs on Japan to end WW2 |
| Kamikaze | Translates as Divine Wind, these were suicide planes used as a tactic by the Japanese in desperation to crush the US Navy in 1945 |
| Lend Lease Act | This gave President FDR the power to lend or sell materials to nations defending themselves from the Axis Powers. |
| Non Agression Pact | Agreement between the Nazi's and Soviets not to attack each other as they invaded Poland to begin WWII |
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