Am.HIS #5 Ch, 24
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 d-Day | June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II. |
| Yalta Conference | s, FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War |
| Battle of the bulge | s, December, 1944-January, 1945 - After recapturing France, the Allied advance became stalled along the German border. In the winter of 1944, Germany staged a massive counterattack in Belgium and Luxembourg which pushed a 30 mile "bulge" into the Allied lines. The Allies stopped the German advance and threw them back across the Rhine with heavy losses. |
| Bataan March | s, 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. |
| Rationing | s, a limited portion or allowance of food or goods; limitation of use |
| Ghetto | s, a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions |
| final solution | s, the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler |
| Kamikaze | s, Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships. |
| Code talkers | s, Navajo troops who used their language to send messages in a code the Japanese were never able to break |
| Anti semitism | s, prejudice and/or hatred of jews. |
| Winter | WHat was the sOviets best ally against German Army? |
| North Africa | Where did American Soldiers enter WWII? |
| disbelief, they though it was was war propaganda | What was the initial American reaction to the final Solution? |
| Japanese advances halted | What happened for the first time at the battle of coral sea? |
| they would use them as bases to launch attacks | Why did American forces want the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa? |
| ll people of Japeneses background be removed from the west coast | What did General DeWitt recommend? |
| FDR dies | What happened on april 12, 1945? |
| hitler suicide | What happened on april 30 1945? |
| japan surrendered | August 15? |
| Germany Surrendered | May 8? |
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