Flashcards for WWII Chap. 26 Test: Sections 3 & 4
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Created by:
CindyA8 on March 8, 2011
Subjects:
us history, social studies, chapter 26, wwii, hms
Description:
Covers the 3rd and 4th section of Chapter 26.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What were WACs and WAVES? 765 | WACs: Womens Army Corps WAVES:Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service in the Navy |
| Who were the Tuskeegee Airmen? 766-767 | The 332nd Fighter Group who were African Americans |
| What job did many Navajo soldiers have? 767 | They severed in the armed forces and acted as code talker to use their languages for secret messages |
| What group of Americans were placed in relocation camps? 768 | West Coast Japanese Americans |
| Who was the German general in command of North Africa? 771 | Erwin Rommel |
| Who was the commander of all Allied forces in Europe? 771-772 | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| What was D-Day, when did it happen and who led the Allied troops? 772, 774 | Dwight D. Eisenhower, when his troops landed on the coast of Normandy to stop the germans on June 6th, 1944 |
| Who replaced Roosevelt in 1945? 775 | Harry S Truman |
| About how many Jews were killed during the Holocaust? 776 | 6 million |
| What was the Holocaust? 776 | early 1940's |
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