Chapter 11-2 Flashcards
Meeting of the big three
Yalta Conference
How many parts was Germany split into?
4 parts
Hitler had used the rail way to try and punch a hole in our defenses
Battle of Bulge
Who surrounded Berlin
The USSR
Victory in Europe Day
(Need to Know!!!!)
May 8th, 1945
Who died before the end?
FDR
6-12 day journey, beaten and totrured
Bataan Death March
The United States was able to stop the Japanese advance on Australia at:
The Battle of the Coral Sea
All US Army units in the Pacific were under who’s control?
Douglas MacArthur
All US Navy units in the Pacific were under who’s control?
Chester Nimitz
Part of the Solomon Island
Guadalcanal
Strategy of selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and by passing others
Island - hopping
Suicide Planes / Bombers
Kamikazes
The closer we got to Japan the more brutal the fighting got
Iwo Jima
What were the Japanese soldiers notorious for?
Never surrendering
The image were used by the media to promote the buying of…
Victory Bonds
What did the enemies pledge to fight for in the Battle of Okinawa?
fight to the death
Attacks in which the soldiers tried to kill as many of the enemy as possible until they themselves were killed
Banzai charges
In order to obtain this weapon before any other power FDR started…..
The Manhattan Project
Who was the final decision was left up to after FDR had died?
President Harry S. Truman
American plane the Enola Gray dropped an atomic bomb where?
Hiroshima
Name of the two bombs
Fatman and Little Boy
Victory Day in Japan
(Need to Know!!!)
August 15, 1945
Many jobs and places were still practicing what?
Discrimination and segregation
Name of African American Pilots who learned to fly in Alabama
Tuskegee Airmen
Help give jobs to Mexican Americans
Bracero program
Mexican farm laborers brought to work in the US
Bracero
Mexican Americans still felt discrimination =
Zoot suit riots
Because of these fears the government decided to _________________ from the west coast
remove all “aliens”
Confined in camps in remote areas far from the coast
Interned
Japanese people born in the US (2nd Generation)
Nisei
Symbolized the war contributions women made
Rosie the Riveter
When the war ended what happened to many of the women jobs?
Their jobs ended as well
