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WWII 2024
Key terms from WWII 2024 Update
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prime Minister of England during the Policy of Appeasement towards Germany | Neville Chamberlain |
| The nationalist Leader of China | Chiang Kai-shek |
| The year WW II officially begins | 1939 |
| The American President during most of WW II, elected 4 times | Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR |
| Date of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
| Japanese Fleet defeated at the Battle of Midway in | 1942 |
| Commander and Chief of Far East US Forces. Appointed so in 1942 | Gen. Douglas MacArthur |
| Chief Scientist of the Manhattan Project | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima | Enola Gay |
| D-Day Code name | Operation Overlord |
| Italy surrendered to Allies unconditionally | September 1943 |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945 |
| Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe | Dwight D Eisenhower, Ike |
| This event brought the US into WWII | The attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Meeting between FDR and Churchill outlining how the world should look after WWII | The Atlantic Charter |
| US strategy to defeat Japan in the Pacific | Island Hopping |
| Germany's offensive against Great Britain early in the war | Battle of Britain |
| Investments made in the US to help pay for the war effort | War Bonds |
| Restricting amounts of goods allowed to be used by a population, it often occurs during the war | Rationing |
| US project to build the atomic bombs | The Manhattan Project |
| June 6, 1944, it was a major offensive to "take back" mainland Europe | D-Day |
| Locations where the US placed people of Japanese descent in Hawaii after Pearl Harbor | Relocation Camps |
| Jews, Roma, and many other groups were placed in these locations in Europe by the Nazis | Concentration Camps |
| Decoding project used on intercepted Japanese radio transmissions | MAGIC |
| Russia, Great Britain, United States, and Free French Forces | Allies |
| Germany, Japan, and Italy | Axis |
| Citizens were required to keep lights off at night, or keep indoor lights from projecting outdoors at night | Blacklouts |
| Information used by governments to help sway public opinion to support certain causes | Propaganda |
| US citizens were encouraged to have these in their backyards to help save food for the troops in WWII | Victory Gardens |
| Group that provides entertainment to US Military and their families | USO, United Service Organization |
| The Day that will live in Infamy | December 7, 1941 |
| Allies planted fake plans about invading Mediterranean Islands for the Germans to find | Operation Mincemeat |
| The Allied invasion of North Africa | Operation Torch |
| The Allied invasion of Sicily | Operation Husky |
| September, 1939 | The start of World War II |
| Political ideology in which the nation and race are more important than individuals | Fascist |
| Complete control by the leader | Totalitarianism |
| Policy in which one gives in to demands to keep from getting into confrontations | Appeasement |
| Lightning-War | Blitzkrieg |
| Leader of the Nazi Party | Adolf Hitler |
| Leader of Italian Fascist Party | Benito Mussolini |
| War where Axis Powers tested their weapons against Communists | Spanish Civil War |
| Who were the original Axis Powers? | Italy and Germany |
| The name of the Third German Empire | Third Reich |
| Laws passed in the United States during the 1930's in an attempt to keep the country out of war | The Neutrality Acts |
| The air war between Germany and Great Britain | Battle of Britain |
| A belief that the United States should become involved in the European War | Interventionists |
| The belief that the United States should stay out of the European War | Isolationists |
| The law passed that allowed the peace time draft in the 1930's | The Selective Service Act |
| The law that was passed that allowed military supplies to be lent, leased, or sold to any country that was vital to the defense of the United States | Lend-Lease Act |
| This International Agreement set the stage for the United Nations | Atlantic Charter |
| a "date which will live in infamy | "Attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941 |
| Victory with no concessions accepted from your enemies | Unconditional Surrender |
| A war in which civilians are treated the same as the military | Total War |
| D-Day | |
| Hitler's attempt to eradicate or kill off the Jewish population of Europe | Allies had heard of this as early as 1942, the Holocaust |
| The code name of the United States' plan to build atomic weapons | Manhattan Project |
| Germany's last big counter-offensive during WWII. It occurred in Belgium | Battle of the Bulge |
| Great Britain's leader who stood up to Hitler | Winston Churchill |
| French Leader who followed policy of appeasement | Premier Edouard Daladier |
| Great Britain's leader who followed policy of appeasement | Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain |
| Massive effort to pull English and French forces off of the Continent and back to Great Britain | Dunkirk |
| Government in France set up by Hitler to work with Hitler | Vichy France |
| FDR's attempt to mend relations between US and Latin America Pulled troops stationed in various countries home | Good Neighbor Policy |
| Largest and best organized group in US that tried to keep us out of WWII | America First Committee |
| Term used by FDR, meant US would supply the countries fighting the dictators in WWII | Arsenal of Democracy |
| Policy where countries could buy war materials from US if they shipped the goods themselves | Cash and Carry |
| French fortifications on German Border | Maginot Line |
| Great Britain signed over islands in Caribbean for US Ships | Destroyers for Bases |
| A derogatory nickname for arms munition companies after WWI | Merchants of Death |
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