808 Section 3 Flashcards
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Directed the atomic bomb project development
What was the code name for the Allie’s invasion of France?
Operation Overlord
What is the policy of giving in to demands to try and solve a problem?
Appeasment
What kind of government tries to manage every area of its citizen’s lives?
Totalitarian Government
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union
Adolf Hitler
Nazi leader in Germany
Hideki Tojo
Minister of War for Japan
What were the three Axis powers?
Germany, Japan, Italy
What act reinstituted the draft?
The Selective Training and Service Act
What was the name of the project to build the atomic bomb?
the Manhattan Project
Benito Mussolini
Dictator of Italy - a fascist
Hirohito
Emperer of Japan
Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
To try to get the U.S. to sign a truce
What were the Big Three Allied powers?
United States; Great Britain; Soviet Union
Harry Truman
President who ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb