WWII
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Fascism | aggressive nationalist movement that considered the nation more important than the individual and believed that order in society would come only through a dictator who led a strong gov't, very anticommunist |
| Benito Mussolini | -founded italy'd facist party -exploited fears of communism in order to make facism seem safe and appealing. -pledged to return italy to glory days of the roman empire -with help of blackshirts (facist militia) he took over |
| Vladimir Lenin | -led communist party -established communist gov'ts throughout the roman empire -institute one party rule, suppressed individual liberties, and punished opponents |
| Joseph Stalin | -won struggle for power after lenin died -new soviet dictator -industrialized country "five-year plans" |
| Collectives | family farms were combined and turned into gov't owned farms |
| Adolf Hitler | -anticommunist -rebel -"nazi party"-german workers party -nationalistic |
| The Neutrality Acts | -neutrality act of 1935-made it illegal for americans to sell arms to any country in at war. -2nd neutrality act-banning sale of arms to either side in a civil war -neutrality act of 1937-continued the ban on selling arms to warring nations, but also required them to buy all non military supplies from the united states on a "cash and carry" basis...had to have their own ships go to pick up supplies and had to pay with cash |
| Axis Powers | -Italy -Japan -Germany |
| Isolationism vs. Internationalism | internationalism-the idea that trade b/w nations creates prosperity and helps prevent war. while isolationism does not want any involvement with other nations in order to preserve safety |
| The Munich Conference | september 29, 1938-britain and france agreed to hitler's demands(appeasement) believed that if they gave him this they wouldn't bother him -representatives of britain, france, and germany met to figure out czechloslavakias fate |
| Appeasement | made concessions in exchange for peace. |
| The Nazi-Soviet Pact | -nonaggression pact -britain and france understood that this deal was made to free hitler for war against them and poland. -contained secret deal to divide poland b/w germany and the soviet union |
| The Blitzkrieg | lightening war |
| The Fall of France | page 462 |
| Maginot Line | french builta line of concrete bunkers and fortifications along the german border, french waited behind it for german approach, however it was disastrous because 1)it allowed germany to concentrate on poland first before facing the british and french, and 2) hitler decided to go around the maginot line which protected france's border with germany but not france's border with belgium. |
| Winston Churchill | new prime minister of great britain, spirited leader who delivered a defiant speech about how britain would never surrender |
| Battle of Britain | air battle -german air force, the luftwaffe, began to attack british shipping on english channel. they launched an all out battle to destory the royal air force |
| The Holocaust | hitler used nuremburg laws, concentrations camps, the ss, and terror to discriminate against and kill many people, mainly jews |
| Concentration Camps | -camps built by hitler to either work the jews to death or kill them |
| Wannsee Conference | nazi leaders met to determine the final solution of the jewish question this is when concentration/extermination camps were created |
| The Lend-Lease Act | allowed the us to lend or lease arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the united states" |
| Hemispheric Defense Zone | since roosevelt was unable to help protect british cargo ships because techniqually we were still neutral, he declared that the entire western half of the atlantic was part of the western hemisphere and therefore neutral |
| Atlantic Charter | an agreement committing the us and britain to a postwar world of democracy, nonaggression, free trade, and economic advancement and freedom of the seas |
| America's Embargo of Japan | us restricted the sale of strategic war materials. cause japan to get angry and join the axis powers |
| Blocking of Strategic materials | what??? |
| Pearl Harbor | japan attacks naval base on december 7, 1941 killed and injured many as well as destroyed a most of the us fleet |
| War Production Board | roosevelt gave them the authority to set priorities and production goals and to control the distribution of raw materials and supplies. |
| Building an Army | american industry goes all war and tanks are now being made instead of cars, liberty ships are being built, weapons are invented and sold, |
| Army Segregation | seperate troops for african americans, but they were still involved in war but usually not allowed in combat |
| Double V Campaign | african american newspaper campaign urging african americans to support the war to achieve a double victory-over both hitler's racism abroad and the racism at home |
| Tuskegee Airmen | pilots trained in tuskegee, alabama -1st air force unit of african americans |
| Women's Army Corps | replaced womens army auxiliary corps and was now part of the army officially |
| Douglas MacArthur | general who commanded american and filipino forces defending the phillipines |
| Bataan Death March | tens of thousands of war prisoners forced to march to a japanese prison |
| James Doolittle | lieutenant colonel put in charge of mission to bomb tokyo |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | ...pg 496 |
| Battle of Midway | ... |
| Battle for North Africa | ... |
| Battle for the Atlantic | ... |
| Battle of Stalingrad | ... |
| Women's role in the defense Industry | ... |
| Japanese Internment | keeping japanese citizens in camps to keep them from threatening the us during the war |
| Rationing | limiting the purchase of certain items |
| Victory Gardens | grow your own food, so the farms can provide for the troops |
| Casablanca Conference | 508... |
| Tehran Conference | ... |
| Operation Overlord | plan for d-day, |
| D-Day | invasion of normandy beaches by the allies |
| Island-Hopping in the Pacific | 513 |
| MacArthur in the Pacific | ... |
| Kamikaze | japanese suicide fighter pilots |
| Battle of the Bulge | ...518 |
| V-E Day | victory for the defeat of europe on may 8, 1945 |
| Harry S. Truman | became president after roosevelt died, ......... |
| Iwo Jima and Okinawa | 520... |
| Japanese terms of surrender | they keep their emperor |
| The Manhattan Project | making of the atomic bomb |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | cities the atomic bombs were dropped on |
| V-J Day | victory in japan when japan finally surrendured on august 15, 1945 |
| Creation of the United Nations | ...524 |
| Nuremberg Trials | ...525 |
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