WW II Test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 "Double V" campaign | The World War II-era effort of black Americans to gain "a Victory over racism at home as well as Victory abroad.", to have a victory at home and in other countries, against the war, against racial prejudice |
| "We will sell every man in uniform a _________ for five cents wherever he is and whatever it costs." | Coca-Cola |
| Adolph Hitler | leader of the fascist National Socialist German Workers' Party (known as Nazis) in Germany called Der Fuhrer...the leader |
| American policy during the early years of WW II | terminating all trade agreements with warring nations--isolationism |
| Appeasement | Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability. |
| Atlantic Charter | 1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII amd to work for peace after the war |
| Bataan Death March | April 1942, American soldiers were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps by their Japanese captors. It is called the Death March because so may of the prisoners died en route. |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | (1942-1943) World War II battle in the Pacific; it represented the first Allied counter-attack against Japanese forces; Allied victory forced Japanese forces to abandon the island |
| Battle of Iwo Jima | lasted 6 weeks, several thousand marines, and more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers were killed, this battle is also notable for the famous photograph of US marines lifting the American flag to a standpoint- Pacific Battle |
| Battle of Midway | turning point of WW II in the Pacific, in which the Japanese advance was stopped |
| Battle of Okinawa | First Japanese Home island (only 340 miles from mainland Japan) to be invaded. Island of immense strategic value. Involving over 500,000 troops and over 1,200 ships. Battle showed Japanese determination to resist invasion., April-June 1945 Pacfic battle, bloody for Japanese, Nimitz and MacArthur meet up |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Unsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad during World War II from 1942 to 1943, that was the furthest extent of German advance into the Soviet Union. |
| Battle of the Bulge | December 1944 German counterattack on Allied troops in Belgium and Luxembourg; crippled Germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935), joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936), and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy. (p. 786) |
| Braceros | Mexican workers that were brought to America to work when so many men and women were gone from home during World War II that there weren't enough workers. |
| Blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 1939 |
| Keep the people on the home front actively involved in the war effort | Campaigns to collect scrap metal, kitchen fats, and other materials were promoted mainly to |
| Carpet Bombing | Method of aerial bombing in which large numbers of bombs are dropped over a wide area |
| Chester Nimitz | Commander of the US Navy in the Pacific |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944, the day the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France., allied forces under dwight d. eisenhower landed on the beaches of normandy in history's greatest naval invasion. |
| began invading neighboring lands | During the 1930's, Hitler, Mussolini, and the military leaders of Japan |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Commander of the Allied Forces invasion of North Africa, and eventually of all Allied forces. |
| The other countries involved in the first World War blamed Germany for the war and in turn bankrupted the economy. | Effect of WWI on Germany |
| Einsatzgruppen | Nazi strike forces that killed innocent Jews with their infamous "death squads" |
| George Marshall | United States general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program (1880-1959) |
| GI | Term used for American soldiers in World War II, derived from the term "Government Issue" |
| Harry S. Truman | American President who had to make the decision of whether to drop the bomb or not |
| Henry Kaiser | Leading American industrialist and shipbuilder during World War II- a whole ship in 14 days |
| Hideki Tojo | Prime minister of Japan during World War II- ordered attack on Pearl Harbor |
| They sought to solve their nations' problems through conquest.Were fascist dictatorships also | Italy, Germany, and Japan in the 1930s |
| Japanese Internment | nearly 120,000 Japanese put to live in specific areas due to fear of them being enemies |
| Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) |
| Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during WW II |
| Korematsu v. US | Supreme Court Decision that upheld the government's policy of interning Japanese Americans |
| Lend-Lease Act | replaced cash and carry; allowed Britain to borrow US war materials |
| Lutwaffe | German airforce |
| Manhattan Project | code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb |
| Nagasaki | Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped (August 9, 1945). |
| Nuremberg Laws | A group of laws that robbed German Jews of their citizenship in 1935, legal basis in Nazi Germany for discrimination against Jews |
| Nuremberg Trials | Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes |
| Office of War Mobilization | Federal agency formed to coordinate issues related to war production during World War II |
| Pearl Harbor | United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. |
| Red Army | the regular army of the former Soviet Union |
| Rosie the Riveter | Advertising campaign character who encouraged women to take factory jobs. |
| V-E Day | May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered |
| V-J Day | "Victory over Japan day" is the celebration of the Surrender of Japan, which was initially announced on August 15, 1945 |
| War Refugee Board | Federal agency created in 1944 to try to help people threatened with murder by the Nazis |
| Wartime rationing | •Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services. Rationing controls the size of the ration, one's allotted portion of the resources being distributed on a particular day or at a particular time. |
| Winston Churchill | Britain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid |
| Yalta Conference | 1945 strategy meeting between roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin |
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