chapter 22 Flashcards
british commander helped defeat germany in north africa
Barnard motgomery
accoding to roosvelt what date (month day and year) that would live in infamy
december 7 1941
“desert fox”
Rommel
natioalistic militaristic totalitarian movement
Fascism
country never invaded by german soliders
Britian
yielding to the demands of an aggressor in order to preserve peace
Appeasement
“lighting war”
blitzkrieg
massacre of millions of Jews and other that the Nazis considered “lesser peoples”
holocaust
Allied strategy for the defeat of Japan
island hopping
commander of the all american forces in the far east
douglas MacArthur
Japanese sucide pilot
Kamikaze
dictator of italy
Bento Mussolini
prime minister and military leader of Japan
Hideki Tojo
dicator of the soviet union
Joseph Stalin
british prime minster who practiced appeasement
Neville chamberlain
british prime minister during the WW2
Winston churchill
republican candidate for president in 1940
Wendell Willkie
supreme allied commander in Europe
dwight D. Eisenhower
U.S. president at the close of WW2
Harry truman
German dictator and head of the Nazi party
Adolf hitler
Island American forces captured as a final prepartion for the invasion of Japan
Okihawa
country Germany invaded in operation Barbarossa
Russia
Agreement between Churchill and Roosevelt listed their “common principles”
Alantic character
section of northern France did the Allied expeditionary Force land on D-day
normady
became prime minster after Winston Churchill
clement Allee
battle the Nazi’s counterattacked against the Allied invasion of Europe,almost stopping the advance into Germany
battle of the buldge
secret weapon brought the Pacific war to an end
atomic bomb
country Germany invaded beginning WW2
poland
city the first atomic bomb was dropped
hiroshima
Act empowered the president to supply any allied nation on almost any terms he wished
land lease act
last nation to fail to germany
France
american spokesperson for Isolationism
charles Lindburgh
country forced to give germany some of its territory as a result of the Minch confernce
czexhoslovaki
this critical battle was major turning point of the war. The US had broken the Japanese radio codes,and knew where the Japanese would attack
battle of midway
system for conserving vital goods for diversion to the war effort
rationing
island three miles from tokyo began the drive to defeat Japan
Guadelcanol
special segregated areas where the Jewish were forced to live in crowded unsanitary conditions.Often considered holding areas for the inhabitant’s ultimate transfer to the concerntration camps
ghetto
during the war the american government removed Japanese-American from their homes and relocated them,fearing they might be loyal to Japan
interment camps
which country did germany break a non-aggression pact
Russia-sovout union
Mein Kampf proposed
end democracy in germany
and unit all germans
elimanate all Jews
what was the main provision of neutrailty act of 1939
It gave permission for warring nations to purchase wapons from the US on a cash bases
what came first in WW2
the germna occupation rhineland came first
steps the US support the war from home
rationing
recyling
creation of war production board
3 factors kept the US out of WW2
great depression
isoltionism
resiment of war debts
what happened last WW2
fall of france
due to the war americanse saw increase in
national debt
taxes
number of women working
explain the arguments for and against the use of atomic weapons on Japan
Traditional bombing blockade of the coast of Japan and help Russia could have led to a Japanese defeat. Themendous loss of life possibilities on both sides with an invasion of Japan.Japan and Germany both in the hunt for the bomb and plan to use against the US.
who surrendered first the german surrender of the japanese surrender
japanese
where did the United States place thousands of Japanese Americans in without
charging them with any crimes?
internment camps
