26-50 Flashcards

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Koremastsu v. US

A

Roosevelt’s executive order 906 excludes Japanese from important areas, court ruled the government is justified in time of “emergency peril” to suspend citizen’s civil rights

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Double v

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Urge readers to support the war to win a double victory over hitlers racism abroad & at home

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Chester Nimitz

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Commander of the us navy in the pacific, planned operations against Japanese navy.

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4
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Pearl Harbor

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Japanese nuclear bomb that entered the us into ww1

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5
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Code breakers

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America had a team of code breakers bodes in Hawaii that had already broken many of the Japanese codes

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Tehran conference

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Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill met to divide Germany. International peacekeeping organization

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Operation overlord

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Code name for battle at Normandy. June 6, 1944- August 25 1944.

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8
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Eisenhower

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A general who had organized the D-Day invasion.

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9
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Battle at midway

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Japanese launched aircraft on June 4, 1942

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Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

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Highest ranking AA officer, to the rank of brigadier general

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11
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Robert Oppenheimer

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Led the team of engineers & scientists to build an atomic bomb

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12
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D-Day

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Invasion of France to force Germany to again fight the war on two fronts

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13
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George Patton

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Was put in command after Eisenhower fired the general who led the battle for North America

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Normandy

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Target, 60 mile stretch of 5 beaches

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15
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Omar Bradley

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Commander of the AM. Forces landing at Omaha & Utah

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16
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Douglas MacArthur

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A general, demanded approval to expand the war against China. He publicly criticized the president

17
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Leslie Groves

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Headed the secret American program to build an atomic bomb

18
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V-E Day

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May 8, 1945, “victory in Europe”

19
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V-J day

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Aug. 15, 1945- Japan surrendered

20
Q

Iwojima

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Bombs fell on Tokyo

21
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Nuremberg trials

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When the international military tribunal was created to punish Germany & Japanese leaders for war crimes

22
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Battle of the bugle

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US won, hitlers goal was to cut off allied supplies coming through Antwerp, Belgium.

23
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J. Edgar Hoover

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Urged HUAC to hold public hearing on communist subversion to expose “communist sympathizers” & “fellow travelers”

24
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Fallout

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Radiation left over after a blast

25
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Suez Canal

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Secured by the British, that forced Rommel to retreat in nov. 1942