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us his 2 ww2
us his 2 midterm part 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| stalin | leader of soviet union |
| genocide | destruction of entire race |
| holocaust | killing of jews |
| nonaggression pact | a vow between germany and soviet union never to attack eachother |
| appeasement and what was hitler given | france gave hitler sudain land |
| why did us enter ww2 | japanese attacked pearl harbor |
| why were japenese americans put in internment camps | americans thought their loyalty to us was bad |
| what crimes were the nazi leaders charged with at Nuremburg trials | for starting was and acts against customs of war |
| who were the WAACs and what were their jobs | Women's auxilary army corp. non combate military tasks |
| how did us fight inflation during war | |
| stalin | leader of soviet union |
| genocide | destruction of entire race |
| holocaust | killing of jews |
| nonaggression pact | a vow between germany and soviet union never to attack eachother |
| appeasement and what was hitler given | france gave hitler sudain land |
| why did us enter ww2 | japanese attacked pearl harbor |
| why were japenese americans put in internment camps | americans thought their loyalty to us was bad |
| what crimes were the nazi leaders charged with at Nuremburg trials | for starting was and acts against customs of war |
| who were the WAACs and what were their jobs | Women's auxilary army corp. non combate military tasks |
| how did us fight inflation during war | switched to war time production, created new jobs, sold war bonds,raise taxes |
| battle of the bulge | germans last offensive, they lost 120,00 troops, 600 tanks and assult guns, 1600 planes |
| Battle of the Atlantic | prevented food and war materials from reaching both great britain and siviet union |
| V-E day/ may8 1945 | victory in europe day |
| GI bill of rights | helps soliders get back on their feet when they came home for the war |
| trumans main reason for dropping atomic bomb | to avoid risk of invasion of japan |
| Korematsu v US | after the war the JACL pushed government to compensation |
| which country did the Allies decide to go after | germany |
| general who fought at Bataan and Leyte | General McArthur |
| Manhatten Project | name for the production of the atomic bomb |
| two cities where the atomic bomb was dropped | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| "Big Three" at Yalta | FDR, Churchill and Stalin |
| who was put on trail at Nurenburg | Surviving Nazi leaders |
| Operation Touch | americas invasion of africa |
| president who served more than two terms | FDR |
| where did Japan face defeat on land during the war in the Pacific | Guadalcanal |
| american admiral at the battle of Midway | McArthur |
| battle in the pacific where Japan's navy was essentially knocked out | Lyete Gulf |
| Battle of Stalingrag | soviets repleled germans and started going on offensive |
| how was the life in US different during WW2 how did citizens help | women started working in factories,many jobs opened, marrages boomed, taxes went up |
| how did minorites participate in the military | they joined segregated units like tuskegee airmen |
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