US History Standard 19
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| Phillip Randolph | He demanded equal opportunities in war jobs and armed forces during WWII. He helped encourage the end of segregation in the military
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| Pearl Harbor | United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into WWII. December 7, 1941.
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| Internment | the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The United States did it to Japanese-Americans in WWII
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| Lend-Lease Act | US policy (while neutral) to lend war materials
to nations if it was “vital to US security”
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| Battle of Midway | Important naval victory against Japan during WWII.
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| D-Day | Allied invasion of German-occupied France;
beginning of pushing Germany back. June 6, 1944
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| Fall of Berlin | April 1945, surrounded by Allies to southwest & Soviet Red Army to the east, Hitler committed suicide & Germany surrendered.
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| Mobilization | America making every effort to be successful in WWII – industry converts, women work, rationing, etc.
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| Manhattan Project | Code name for program to develop the atomic bomb
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| Los Alamos | Location of secret labs where atomic bomb was created.
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| Atomic Bomb | Nuclear weapon developed by US during WWII
– used to end war
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| Hiroshima | Japanese City that was the first target of an atomic attack by the US
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| European Theater | Fighting against Germany and Italy
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| Pacific Theater | Fighting against Japan
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| Wartime Conservation | Using only the necessities and sending the rest to the war – helped economy recover from depression
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| Rationing | Government only allowed families to use small
amounts of certain groceries & gas
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| Joseph Stalin | Communist dictator of the USSR during WWII
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| Adolph Hitler | Nazi Dictator of Germany during WWII
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| Winston Chirchill | Prime Minister of Britain during much of WWII
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| Harry S. Truman | Becomes US President after death of FDR in 1945
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