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Chapter 16 and 17 - World War II

Terms in this set (41)

Totalitarian
Has complete control over it's people.
Harry S. Truman
President after Roosevelt, decided to drop the atomic bomb.
Omar Bradley
American General fights against the Germans at St. Lo.
James Farmer
Founder of the Congress Of Racial Equality ( CORE )
Tuskegee Airmen
All black pilot unit, were bomber escorts.
Battle Of Coral Sea
Battle in the Pacific, Japanese have turned back after this war.
Battle Of Midway
Turning point of the Pacific War, Allies go Offensive.
Lend-Lease Act
FDR's idea that the U.S could lend/lease supplies to the Allies.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The place where the Americans dropped the Atomic Bomb.
Manhattan Project
Code name for the research of the Atomic Bomb.
Munich Pact
Agreement for Hitler not to take any land besides Sudetenland.
Yalta Conference
Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin decided that Hitler should be their first target.
Concentration Camps
Most of them were in Poland, many Jews were put in them and many died there.
Appeasement
Giving into Hitler's demands in order to stop the war.
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of Britain during the war.
Neville Chamberlain
Prime Minister of Britain at that time.
Chester Nimitz
Commander of the Pacific Fleet.
Douglas MacArthur
Commander of ground forces in the pacific.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Overall commander of the Allied forces in Europe and North Africa.
Battle Of Stalingrad
Hitler marches into Russia with an order of NO RETREAT!
Battle Of The Bulge
Takes place in the Ardennnes, Germans were defeated.
Maginot Line
Useless defense line in France which the Germans simply walked around.
Joseph Stalin
Communist Leader of the Soviet Union.
Battle of Britain
Bombing barrage of Britain by the Germans.
G.I Bill
Bill to benefit war veterans by providing them with college education etc.
Nuremberg Trials
Put Nazi leaders on trial for their crimes.
Internment
Confinement of Japanese Americans.
Fascism
Extreme nationalism.
Benito Mussolini
Italian dictator.
Vernon J. Baker
Won the Medal Of Honor by President Clinton.
Atlantic Charter
Battle for the control of the Atlantic.
Antisemitism
Hatred of the Jews.
Charles De Gaulle
Leader of the French Government, sent to exile.
Tripartite Pact
Pact between Germany, Italy and Japan to join forces.
A. Phillip Randolph
Black Labor leader, organized a march on Washington to end Racism.
Operation Overlord
Nickname of the Allied invasion of France.
Battle Of The Atlantic
Signed by U.S and Britain.
Navajo
Language used to communicate on the battle field.
WAAC
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps by George Marshall.
Bataan Death March
Made Filipinos march to their death.
Office Of War Information
Monitored war information.
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