WW2
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MorganLeger on May 18, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Third Reich | reference to Germany during Adolf Hitler's rule |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact (non-aggression pact) | Agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union that they would never go to war with each other and that they would divide Poland between them |
| Isolationism | The US policy not to get involved with any other country's affairs, especially wars. |
| Neutrality Acts | enforced isolationism |
| Neutrality Acts- | Has to do with food weapons and travel. - prohibited shipment of American weapons to any belligerent nation - forbade American loans to any belligerent nation -forbade United States citizens from traveling on the ocean-going vessels of warring nations. The act also allowed the President to draw up a list of non-military goods, such as grain, which the United States could sell to belligerent nations, but strictly on a "cash and carry" basis |
| "cash-and-carry" policy | The law decreed that belligerent nations would have to pay the United States up front and would have to transport any purchased goods on their own ships. Pay in cash. |
| Selective Service Act | an act that established the draft. Draft all men from 18-36 had to register for draft |
| Lend-Lease Act | US agreed to lend weapons to England and England let them use their bases world wide |
| Luftwaffe | German air force- more advanced than anymore else's in the world |
| Holocaust | when Jews, gypsies, gays, and mentally handicapped were eliminated |
| concentration camp | network of labor, and execution camps, in Nazi occupied Europe |
| Auschwitz | Worst concentration camp and largest. Located in Poland |
| Rosie the Riveter | Propaganda to get women to work on factories |
| victory gardens | Vegetable garden or a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war. |
| war bonds | When the war ended, these could be redeemed with interest. |
| Hiroshima - Nagasaki | first two places bombed |
| Manhattan Project | research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II |
| Rationing | The federal government also compelled Americans to cut back on food stanmps and consumer goods. Americans, for example, needed ration cards to purchase items such as gasoline, coffee, sugar, and meat. Rationing eventually frustrated many Americans. |
| Iwo Jima | Bloody battle in Pacific during WWII that the US won |
| Okinawa | island closet to Japan that US took over- many Japanese suicides |
| island hopping | battle strategy during Pacific campaign |
| Benito Mussolini | dictator in Italy |
| Dwight Eisenhower | planned DDay |
| Douglas MacArthur | supreme ally commander |
| Cold War | extended period of competition and hostility between US and Soviet Union. The 2 never fought each other directly |
| Soviet Union (USSR) | The US primary, economic and military competitor. They were communist |
| United Nations | It grew out of the alliance with WW2, it is the global peace keeping organization |
| Containment Policy | idea of surrounding communist countries with capitalists ones. It's the method of the Truman Doctrine (Policy of stopping the spread of communism) |
| Marshall Plan | US economic aid to Western Europe in order to create a capitalist block so they wouldn't become communist |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization- made of the US and Western Europe- against S. Union. |
| Warsaw Pact- S | Union and all the communist countries allied against NATO- so 2 big blocks facing off against each other |
| 38th Parallel | border between North and S. Korea ( all we need to know)- most military packed place on earth |
| Domino Theory | Idea that if one country fell to communism then all the rest around it would. |
| Red Scare | a wave of paranoia that swept the US about communism |
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