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Ch 14 & 15
WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.Totalitarianism | State in which one party has complete control |
| 2.Joseph Stalin | Dictator of the Soviet Union 1923 - 1953; Stole the power from Trotsky with whom Lenin wished to run the SU after his death |
| 3.Benito Mussolini | First fascist leader of the world; Fascist leader of the Italian Fascist Republic 1923 - 1945 |
| 4.Adolf Hitler | Leader of the Nationale Sozialistische Deutcher Arbeiter Partei (NSDAP or Nazi) who eventually overthrew Wiemar Germany in 1933 in a velvet revolution; 1933 - 1945 |
| 5.Anti-Semitic | The belief that anyone of semetic origins (Palestinian, Jewish, Turkish, Arabic) is inferior |
| 6.Spanish Civil War | 1936 - 1939; After the victory of the Socialists, the church and army revolted (Nationalists/Fascists) under Franco against the Republicans (Socialists) Aid to the Nationalists by Italy and Germany, to the Republicans by the SU |
| 7.Appeasement | The Leagues actions to avoid another Great War by appeasing the totalitarian states with their demands |
| 8.Anschluss | Annexation of a nation. Before WWII, the annexation of Austria constructed by Hitler and the leaders of the Austrian NSDAP |
| 9.Munich Pact | Agreement between France, Britain, and Germany that gave Germany Bohemia's Sudetenland |
| 10.Blitzkreig | Lightning War. War conducted in a fast manner that is designed to rush toward the enemies capital and encircle all forces to destroy them. Historic Blitzkriegs, Battle of France, Battle of Poland, Operation Barbarossa stage 1, Operation Iraqi Freedom |
| 11.Axis Powers | Alliance between Japan, Italy, and Nazi Germany |
| 12.Allies | Alliance between France and Britain (Plus all Dominions, Commonwealths, and Dependencies |
| 13.Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of the UK from 1940 - 1946 |
| 14.Neutrality Act of 1939 | Act that allowed belligerent nations to buy from the US in cash if they would transport the cargo on their own transport ships |
| 15.Tripartite Pact | Pact that made Japan, Italy, and Germany official allies |
| 16.Lend-Lease Act | Act that allowed Britain to buy goods from us in return for a 99 yr lease of British naval bases |
| 17.Atlantic Charter | A Document that endorsed national self-determination and an International system of 'General Security' |
| 18.Hideki Tojo | Supreme Commander of all Japanese military forces |
| 19.Pearl Harbor | US Naval base in Oahu |
| 20.WAC | |
| 21. Douglas MacArthur | Commander of all Marine forces in the Pacific theater |
| 22.Bataan Death March | Long march of tens-of-thousands of marines in Luzon from Manila to Bataan Peninsula |
| 23.Battle of the Coral Sea | Naval Battle between the USN and IJN that while proved strategically and tactically indecisive, showed the importance of Aircraft Carriers; USS Lexington sunk, USS Yorktown severely damaged |
| 24.Dwight Eisenhower | Supreme Allied Commander in Europe |
| 25.George S Patton Jr | General of the 4th army who relied on heavy use of tanks |
| 26.Unconditional Surrender | Complete surrender without concessions |
| 27.Saturation Bombing | Bombing with large amounts of planes and bombs in order to completely destroy the target area |
| 28.Strategic Bombing | Bombing of strategically important locations such as factories and bridges |
| 29.Tuskegee Airmen | African American Squadron who protected bombers and never lost a bomber |
| 30.Chester Nimitz | Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific |
| 31.Battle of Midway | Battle near Midway Island in which the US lost the USS Yorktown while the IJN lost the IJN Hiryu, IJN Akagi, IJN Soryu, and IJN Kaga |
| 32.A Phillip Randolph | African American who demanded desegregation of the military |
| 33.Executive Order 8802 | Assure fair hiring practice to African Americans |
| 34.Bracero Program | Program that brought laborers from Mexico to American farms |
| 35.Internment | Temporary imprisonment of people from a specific group |
| 36.Korematsu v United States | Case against internment policy; United STates victory, Internment upheld |
| 37.442nd Regimental Combat Team | Japanese American combat group that became the most decorated regiment in US history |
| 38.Office of War Information (OWI) | Worked closly with the media to encourage War Support |
| 39.D-Day | Codename of Allied landing in Normandy, France |
| 40.Battle of the Bulge | German counter offensive aimed at retaking the port of Antwerp and spiting the allies in half |
| 41.Harry S Truman | Vice President of FDR then eventual president 1945 - 1950 |
| 42.Island Hopping | Campaign that emphasized winning each island (Chain) one by one |
| 43.Kamikaze (Divine Wind) | Suicide Pilots and drivers that would man either human torpedoes, planes, or human rockets that would be filled with 500 to 1k lbs of explosives that would slam into enemy ships |
| 44.Albert Einstein | German Jew that dissented to America when Hitler came to power; important in the Manhattan project |
| 45.Manhattan Project | Project to develop the aotmic bomb before Germany |
| 46.J Robert Oppenheimer | Leader of the Manhattan Project |
| 47.Holocaust | Systematic attempt to kill all Jews in Europe |
| Anti-semitism | The belief that semetics are inferior |
| 49. Nuremberg Laws | Laws that stripped Jews of their citizenship and rights |
| 50.Kristallnacht | Night when Nazi Sympathizers and SA members ransacked and destroyed Jewish homes and places of business |
| 51.Genocide | Systematic murder of an entire people |
| 52.Concentration Camp | Camp where members of specially designated groups were confined |
| 53. Death Camps | Camped were members of specially designated groups were killed |
| 54.War Refugee Board | Board that helped save thousands of Eastern European Jews |
| 55.Yalta Conference | Conference were FDR, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on the borders of post-war Europe |
| 56.Superpower | Most powerful nation in the world |
| 57.GATT | |
| 58.United Nations | Group of nations that protect International law |
| 59.Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Declaration that agreed on the world standard for Human rights |
| 60.Geneva Convention | War Crimes Convention that laid out new International Law |
| 61.Nuremberg Trials | Trials that convicted high ranking Nazi officials of the newly made War Crimes |
| 62.Ration | The limiting of food and luxury items for the war effort |
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