Chapter 26 Flashcards
- Battle of Coral Sea
naval battle between the Japanese navy and the US and Australia
- Battle of Midway
a crucial and decisive battle in the pacific in which the US gained
- Battle of Guadalcanal
a series of land and sea clashed between the Aliies and Japanese
- Free French
people and troops who were free from the vichy regime (German) in world war 2
- General George C. Marshall
US famous for his leadership roles in World War Two
- General George S. Patten
George Smith Patton, Jr. was a United States Army general, who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of World War II
- General Erwin Rommel
a General who was popular in Germany in World War Two and gain respect through his victories
- Battle of El Alamein
fought in North Africa which was a decisive Allied victory in driving out German forces
- General Bernard Montgomery
the first Viscount of Alamein
- Siege/Battle of Stalingrad
attempt by the Nazis to try and receive oil located by the USSR city of Stalingrad
- Invasion of Sicily
Allied attempted to take the Italians out of World War two
- Battle of Monte Cassino
a costly series of assaults by the allies in Italy
- Holocaust
the murdering of millions of jews and homosexual by Hitler to try and create his Arian race
- Office of Price Administration
functions were originally to control money and rents after the outbreak of World War
- War Production Board
that supervised and regulated the production and sale of matériel essential to the logistics of World War II.
- National Defense Research Committee
June 27, 1940 until June 28, 1941. Most of its work was done with the strictest secrecy, and it began research of what would become some of the most important technology during World War II, including radar and the atomic bomb. It was superseded by the Office of Scientific Research and Development in 1941, a
- Radar
a system for detecting the direction and distance of aircraft
- Sonar
Sound Navigation and Ranging used to locate and communicate with objects
- V1, V2
bombs created by the germans that operated through rockets
- Lancaster B1 and Boeing B-17F
Airplane created to help the Allies carry and drop bombs in World War Two