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TermDefinition
Lend- Lease Act 1941 law that authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security
War Production Board This board supervised the conversion of industries to war production. (Cars to trucks/tanks, etc.)
Japanese-American Internment Japanese Americans were sent to hastily constructed camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior.
Rationing The policy of limiting resources for public consumption, in efforts to supply the war effort
Tuskegee Airmen First African American fighter pilot squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe during World War II
Pearl Harbor 1941 United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
Fascism political philosophy that advocates a strong nationalistic dictatorship
Nazi Party the political party founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power by Hitler in 1933
Central Powers- Axis Germany, Italy, Japan
Allies WWII Great Britain, France, USSR, USA
Appeasement meeting demands of a hostile power in order to avoid war- Britain and France did not want to go to war with Germany Ex. Munich agreement
Neutrality Act laws passed in the late 1930s that were designed to keep the US out of international incidents policy of supporting neither side in a war
policy of supporting neither side in a war
Island hopping A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy
D-Day (under FDR) , June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day's end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy.
Yalta Conference 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
Battle of Midway Turning point in WWII Americans took all the islands in Japan back
Rosie the Riveter symbol of American women who went to work in factories during the war
G.I. Bill Law passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher educations like college.
Marshall Plan A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948
Nuremberg Trial Trials of the Nazi leaders, showed that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime
Benito Mussolini Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and created Fascism
Adolph Hitler German leader of Nazi Party. 1933
Joseph Stalin Communist dictator of the Soviet Union
Neville Chamberlin Prime Minister of United kingdom from 1937
Winston Churchill Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII
Franklin D. Roosevelt Often referred to by his initials FDR, was the 23rd President of the United States. is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms of office. He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war.
Harry Truman Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb
Hideki Tojo Prime minister of Japan during World War II
Dwight D. Eisenhower leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2
Nisei A Japanese American whose parents were born in Japan
Braceros Mexican workers hired to perform farm labor during World War II
Code Talkers Navajo Indians recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps to transmit messages in the Navajo language
What was the reason for and impact of the Atomic Bomb? Reason: Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombed after Japan refused to surrender and accept the Potsdam Declaration. Impact: Ended the war, mass damage
Difference between UN and League of Nations UN- an organization of independent states formed by delegates from 50 nations in 1945 to promote international peace and security, US joined League of Nations- created by world powers, US would not join
War propaganda and its impact To encourage support for the war by serving and taking jobs
Reason for and impact of Japanese internment camps Reason: response to Anti-Japanese hysteria after Pearl Harbor Impact: Innocent people were sent to prison-like camps
Reason for and impact of Concentration Camp Reason: Nazi's were anti-Semitic Impact: over 60% of all European Jews were killed during the war
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