Chapter 26 Flashcards
After dday allies advanced into Germany what was general
Blood and guts Patton
WWII started with invasion of what neutral country
Poland
Name of plane and pilot that dropped bomb
Enola gay and tibbets
Overall general of allied invasion at Normandy
Dwight d Eisenhower
Germany started what new type of attack
Blitzkrieg
FDR tried keeping us n what bill helped Britain
Lend lease bill
Two things very important on home front
Rationing war bonds
In Germany hitler trying to take over hatred of Jews called
Anti semitism
Systematic killing of Jews
Holocaust
Date us entered wwii
December seventh 1941
100,000 put in relocation camps after Pearl Harbor
Internment camps
German general known as desert fox defeated in elle allemain stopped what
Erwin Rommel
Suez Canal
German bombers daily into surrender known as what
Battle of blitz
Battle for this island at island. First time saw suicide planes called what
Kamikazes
Okinawa
Turning point battle in Europe
Stalingrad
What year did Roosevelt win fourth straight election
1944
When VJ Day where Japanese sign surrender
Victory over Japan
Uss Missouri
August 15, 1945
Hurt war effort
Racism
Largest of death camps in Poland
Auschwitz
Organization that kept us troops out of trouble
Uso
Island battle in island hopping after battle Japanese would rather die than surrender
Saipan
Country invaded by hitler in 1938 violating treaty of Versailles
Austria
Pulitzer Prize winner gave reports in Europe went to pacific killed by snipers bullet
Ernie Pyle
In twenties and thirties men that rose to power
Mussolini and hitler
During battle for Iwo Jima shows marines raising flag where
Mt. Surabachi
Date and name. Of allied invasion of Europe
Operation overlord june 6, 1944
Royal Air Force famous leader
Winston Churchill
Date of VE Day
May 8, 1945
Greatest rescue attempt French and British soldiers saved at what beach
Dunkirk
In video major way able to put together how many communicated
Letter
After war all criminals tried in what two places
Nuremberg and Tokyo
Code name for North African invasion
Operation torch
Had job of authorizing use of atomic bomb
Harry Truman
Turning point battle in pacific
Midway
Made final decision to attack Pearl Harbor
Hirohito
Signed a non aggression pact with hitler then stabbed in back
Soviet Union
320 men killed here put end to racial segregation
Port of Chicago
Code name of building atomic bomb
Manhattan project
Name of German code machine
Enigma
City liberated in 1944 Mussolini destroyed
Rome
Most decorated fighting outfit in war
442 group
Japanese soldiers died defending airstrip
Tarawa
Two totalitarian governments called what
Natziism fascism
Battle pln in pacific
Island hopping
During war two groups have help and support to troops
Medics and chaplains
Two cities in order that were destroyed by atomic bomb
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Germany Italy Japan
Axis
I shall return
Douglas MacArthur
Code name for allied invasion of Sicily
Operation husky
Buildup of military forces food and weapons in the U.s.
Home front
Germany had to pay big sums of money
Reparations
Aug. 25, 1944 city liberated from German control
Paris
Name of last German offensive of wwii
Battle of the bulge
