Flashcards: World War II - US History
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HistoryofCrawford on March 28, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 isolationism | When a nation tries to minimize ties to other nations. |
| Jesse Owens | African-American who won 4 gold medal in Berlin's 1936 Olympics. |
| Lend-lease Act | Law that sent American war supplies to the Allied powers without immediate payment. |
| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan for most of the twentieth century. |
| Pearl Harbor | The Japanese attack that brought the U.S. into WWII. |
| Atlantic Charter | The U.S. & Great Britain's stated goals for WWII. |
| Rationing | Limiting the amount of supplies that one can buy at a time. |
| Rosie the Riveter | Character on a motivational poster that represented the working women of WWII. |
| Manhattan Project | The U.S. program to build the atomic bomb. |
| Internment Camps | Where Japanese-Americans were placed due to WWII suspicions. |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944. The day the Allies launched an invasion of the European mainland. |
| George S. Patton | American general in command of the European forces during WWII. |
| Douglas MacArthur | American general in command of the Pacific forces during WWII. |
| Doolittle Raid | Attack on the Japanese island of Honshu. Demonstrated to the Japanese that they were vulnerable. |
| kamikaze | Japanese for "divine wind." Suicide bombers during WWII. |
| Midway | This battle was the turning point in the Pacific theater. Admiral Nimitz defeated the Japanese who wanted this island. |
| Coral Sea | Battle where the American and Australian forces stopped the Japanese advance towards Australia. |
| island hopping | American strategy of conquering every other island in an attempt to minimize casualties. |
| Harry S. Truman | U.S. President who succeeded Franklin Roosevelt. |
| Fat Man & Little Boy | The atomic bombs dropped on Japan. |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki | The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on these cities. |