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Honors WWII Projects
Flashcards from Pd 1 WWII Projects 2018
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Buchenwald | Concentration camp located in Germany that was the first camp to be liberated by US forces |
| emaciated prisoners | prisoners that are abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or lack of food |
| liberation | the act of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release |
| American ignorance to the Holocaust | Most Americans did not know about concentration camps until the first camps were liberated |
| Soviet Forces | as the new political entity was known, called for world Communist revolution in the name of the international working class and advocated, in its propaganda |
| The Manhattan Project | A research project funded by the Allied forces that experimented with nuclear technology and nuclear weapons during WWII |
| Little boy | The uranium based bomb that detonates using a fusion reaction |
| Fat man | The plutonium based bomb that detonates using a fission reaction |
| Albert Einstein | the man who sparked the idea of the Manhattan Project and later worked on it |
| Operation Citadel | Code name used for intended use to eliminate the Red Army at Kursk |
| Battle of Kursk | Started July 5, 1943, biggest tank battle in history |
| Knew months in advance that they were to be attacked | Soviet Union |
| July 24th, 1943 | The day when Mussolini was arrested |
| Operation Husky | The Allied invasion of Sicily that caused the fascist party to fall apart |
| Prime Minister after Mussolini | Pietro Badoglio |
| Fascist Grand Council | The party founded by Mussolini to disguise his control over Italy |
| The day that Italy's surrender was announced | September 8th, 1943 |
| Operation Bodyguard | The massive deception of the Allies making the Axis think we were attacking Pas-de-Calais, but they actually attacked the beaches of Normandy |
| Atlantic Wall | 6 point 5 million mines and concrete bunkers with fast firing artillery overlooking all of Europe it stretched from the Arctic Circle to Spain’s Northwestern border |
| D-Day | D-Day stands for the first day of the invasion |
| General Patton | General who commanded phantom army at Pas-de-Calais for Allies |
| General Eisenhower | General who led attack on D-Day for the Allies’ forces |
| Enola Gay | Airplane that dropped the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima |
| Little Boy and Fat Man | Names of Nuclear Bombs Dropped on Japan |
| August 15, 1945 | Day of Surrender of Japan and Victory in Japan Day Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Vichy France | The puppet government of France set up during World War II by occupying German forces |
| French 2nd Armored Division | Formed in late 1943 with the purpose of leading the liberation of Paris |
| Champs d’Elysees | The street on which the liberation march took place after the liberation of Paris, led by de Gaulle and Leclerc |
| Gato, Bali and Tench | the three classes of submarine used in WW2 |
| US Nautilus SSN-571 | the first nuclear submarine |
| SONAR(Sound Navigation and Ranging) | radar relying on acoustic signals |
| Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt | German Officer in charge of the Battle of the Bulge |
| Why was the battle called battle of the “Bulge” | The Allied line bulged but never broke in the battle |
| Bastogne | Surrounded town that the Americans successfully defended during the whole battle |
| December 16, 1944 | When Battle of the Bulge started |
| Antwerp, Belgium | Where the Germans wanted to get to |
| What were conditions like in the Japanese Internment Camps? | They were overcrowded with no plumbing or cooking facilities |
| What was one of the causes of the internment camps? | The attack of Pearl Harbor |
| Rationing | Allowing each person to only have a fixed amount of a particular commodity |
| When was the last internment camp closed? | By the end of 1945 |
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