Chapter 24 Flashcards
Good guys
Allies
Battle of Midway
Turning point in the fight against Japan
After the second a-bomb was dropped on __________, Japan surrendered.
Nagasaki
Hirohito
Emperor of Japan during WW1
Political system with extreme nationalism and blind loyalty to the leader
Fascism
Leader of the third reach
Hitler
The Baatan Death March
65 mile trek to a Japanese prison camp in the the Philippines
Stalin
Soviet leader who initially signed an agreement with Hitler but became a US ally
British, American, and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of ___________, France during D-Day
Normandy
MacArthur
Allied commander in the Pacific theater
Nazi Germany’s slaughter of the Jewish people
Holocaust
Giving into aggression to avoid war
Appeasement
State in which a single party controls the government and people’s lives
Totalitarian
Wartime acts of cruelty beyond accepted rules
War crime
Rationing
Limiting the amount of things you can buy or use
Surviving Nazi leaders were out on trial at __________ in 1946
Nuremberg