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WWII 2025
Key Terms for World War Two 2025
| Defintion | Term |
|---|---|
| The year WW II officially begins | 1939 |
| Date of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | Dec 7, 1941 |
| Japanese Fleet 1st major defeat in the Pacific | 1942 at the Battle of Midway |
| This conference in USSR finalized plans for the UN | Yalta Conference |
| This conference in Germany in 1945 sent Japan an ultimatum to surrender or else | Potsdam Conference |
| Public trials for war crimes in Germany after ther war. | Nuremberg Trials |
| Commander and Chief of Far East US Forces, Appointed in 1942 | General Douglass 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 |
| US strategy to defeat Japan in the Pacific | Island Hopping |
| 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, China, and Free French Forces | Allies |
| Germany, Japan, and Italy | Axis Powers |
| Summer 1943, Latino Youth fight Sailors in Los Angeles | Zoot Suit Riots |
| Citizens were required to keep lights off at night, or keep indoor lights from projecting outdoors at night | Blackouts |
| 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 |
| December 7, 1941 | The Day that will live in Infamy |
| 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 |
| US and Filipino Troops surrender to Japanese in April 1942 | Bataan Death March |
| Selling legal or illegal goods illegally | Black Market |
| Measure of average prices of goods and services | Consumer Price Index, CPI |
| Lightning-War | Blitzkrieg |
| Who were the original Axis Powers | Italy and Germany |
| The name of the Third German Empire | Third Reich |
| US plan to assassinate Admiral Yamamoto | Operation Vengeance |
| A belief that the United States should become involved in the European War | Interventionists |
| The law passed that allowed the peace time draft in the 1930's | The Selective Service Act |
| A war in which civilians are treated the same as the military | Total War |
| Hitler's attempt to eradicate or kill off the Jewish population of Europe | Allies had heard of this as early as 1942 |
| 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 |
| FDR's attempt to mend relations between US and Latin America by pulling troops stationed in various countries home | Good Neighbor Policy |
| 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 |
| 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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