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World War II Ends
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dwight Eisenhower | was named Allied Supreme Commander |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ordered that selected people could be banned from war zones. and also met at the Yalta Conference in 1945. They agreed to only accept unconditional surrender. |
| Harry Truman | decides to use the bomb to end the war and save U.S. lives. |
| Joseph Stalin | met at the Yalta Conference in 1945. They agreed to only accept unconditional surrender. |
| Bernard Montgomery | British General _______ ___________ would lead ground forces. |
| Eva Braun | Hitler’s long time girlfriend and wife for one day. |
| Douglas McArthur | General _______ _________ retakes the Philippines from Japan. |
| Albert Einstein | wrote a letter to FDR explaining that the Germans were working on an atomic bomb. |
| Paul Tibbets | flew the Enola Gay over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 |
| George S. Patton | was the U.S. General the Nazis feared most. He was placed at Calais |
| Josef Mengele | (Angel of Death) was in charge of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He led crude experiments at the camps using Jews as subjects. |
| Arsenal of Democtacy | was a phrase used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. |
| Phillippe Pertain / Charles DeGulle | D Day is the largest military invasion in History! |
| Rudolph Hess | He was convicted of crimes against peace, War crimes and crimes against humanity at Nuremberg. |
| Joseph Goebbels | poisons himself along with his wife and 6 children. USSR was close. |
| Internment Camps | The army relocated Japanese Americans on the West Coast to ________ _________ |
| Korematsu vs United States | was a Supreme Court case during World War II about the U.S. government’s decision to force Japanese Americans into internment camps. |
| Operation Overlord | Allied leaders decide Britain and U.S. will invade France. |
| Operation Fortitude | Allies planned to fool Germany into thinking we were going to attack France at the region of Calais. |
| Kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass. In Paris a Polish Jew shot a German embassy employee |
| D Day | is the largest military invasion in History! and The goal of __ ____ was to liberate France from the Nazis and open a western front. |
| Calas | A city in northern France used in WWII deception plans. The Allies made Germany think the D‑Day invasion would land there, helping the real attack at Normandy succeed. |
| Normandy | The Allies attack at ______ June 6, 1944. |
| Omaha Beach | Resistance was light on four of the beaches. Heavy resistance occurred at_________ _____ where 2400 of the 4000 casualties took place. |
| VE Day | May 8, 1945, the day Germany surrendered to the Allies, officially ending World War II in Europe. |
| Battle of the Bulge | Dec 1944 Hitler mounts a major counter offensive. It became known as the |
| Kamikaze | Japanese _________ pilots crashed their planes into U.S. ships. 3,000+ died this way. |
| Battle if lwo Jima | took 36 days over 6,000 marines lost their lives |
| Battle of Okinawa | America won an air base 340 miles off the coast of Japan. |
| Manhattan Project | which enriched uranium for the purpose for making a nuclear bomb. |
| Enola Gay Boy Little | flew the _____ ______ over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 He dropped _____ ____ on Hiroshima Japan destroying the industrial city |
| Fat Man | August 9th the Bockscar dropped a bomb named ___ ___ on Nagasaki |
| Holocaust | systematic elimination of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945 |
| Genocide | willful annihilation of a racial, political or cultural group. |
| Final Solution | Name of the Nazi plan to rid Europe of Jews. |
| United Nations | was established with a home in New York. It was designed to succeed where the league of nations failed after WWI. |
| Nuremberg Trails | Nazis were put on trial for war crimes |
| Atlantic Wall | The Nazi built the _______ ___ This coastal defense went from the Spain / France border to Northern Norway. |
| Kokura | was supposed to be hit next. It was decided it was to cloudy. They chose Nagasaki instead. |
| What happend in Dresden, Germany? | this city was was bombed by the Brits at the end of the war was chosen because it was a major communications center. |
| Explain how the leaders of the three Axis Power were never united into one common strategy. Who were they and what did each of them want? | they never shared one common strategy, Germany: Wanted to conquer all of Europe, especially Eastern Europe. Italy: Wanted to rebuild a modern version of the Roman Empire. Japan: Wanted to dominate East Asia and the Pacific. |
| What Part of the world did Communism spread to after the war? | After WWII nearly all the countries in Eastern Europe became |
| How many allied Troops attacked on D-day? | 2 |
| What two reasons did Truman give for dropping the bomb? | To end the war quickly and save American lives To avoid a costly invasion of Japan |
| Who attended the Yalta Conference and what were two things they agreed on there? | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin and they agreed on Germany would be divided into four occupation zones (U.S., Britain, USSR, and France). The Soviet Union would join the war against Japan after Germany surrendered. |
| Explain how Germany was divided and why it happened that way? | They agreed to divide Germany into 4 zones. (American, Soviet, British, French) It had to be divided because USSR is communist and the other three are democratic. |
| What did MacArthur do for Japan? What did it Say? | Japan’s new constitution was written by Genera |
| How Many jews died in the Holocaust? | six million Jewish people |
| The Holocaust increased the Jews demand for what? What did they proclaim that state to be? | demand for a homeland of their own — specifically, a Jewish state and homeland should be the State of Israel |
| What were three things that Nuremberg Laws did? | jews were no longer German citizens. Jews were banned from marriage with anyone who is not Jewish. jews were no longer allowed to be government employees. |
| The United Nations was designed to succeed where what failed? | It was designed to succeed where the league of nations failed after WWI. |
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