Chapter 35 Flashcards
Henry Stimson
Secretary of State (and served as Secretary of War under Taft) who continued to hope that Japanese moderates would regain control of the Tokyo government and halt the invasion; He layered issued stern warnings to Japan and tried to use moral suasion to end the crisis. However, he wasn’t allowed to cooperate with the League of Nations in imposing economic sanctions against the Japanese. His only real tool in dealing with the Manchurian invasion was a refusal to grant diplomatic recognition to the new Japanese territories.
A. Phillip Randolph
He was the black leader of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He demanded equal opportunities in war jobs and armed forces during WWII
Douglas MacArthur
He was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.
Chester W Nimitz
served as an Admiral in the Battle of Midway in 1942. He commanded the American fleet into in the Pacific Ocean and learned the Japanese plans through “magic” decoding of their radio messages. With this intercepted information, Nimitz headed the Japanese off and defeated them.
Dwight D Eisenhower
He was the U. S. general who led the attack in North Africa in Nov. of 1942.He was the master organizer of the D-Day invasion in Europe (June 6, 1944). He ran for the Republican ticket in the 1952 and the1956 elections and won. He was very well liked by the public.
Jiang Jieshi
was a 20th-century Chinese political and military leader. After Japan invaded China in 1937, Chiang agreed to a temporary truce with the CPC. Despite some early cooperative military successes against Japan, by the time that the Japanese surrendered in 1945 neither the CPC nor the KMT trusted each other or were actively cooperating.
Thomas E Dewey
The Republican presidential nominee in 1944, Dewey was the popular governor of New York. Roosevelt won a sweeping victory in this election of 1944. Dewey also ran against Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election. Dewey, arrogant and wooden, seemed certain to win the election, and the newspapers even printed, “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN” on election night. However, the morning results showed that Truman swept the election, much to Dewey’s embarrassment.
Harry S Truman
He took over the presidency during World War II with the death of Roosevelt. He was called by many the “average man’s average man” for his appearance and personality, and he was one of the only presidents without a college education. He was an artillery officer in World War One. He was responsible for the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan to end World War II..
Albert Einstein
A German-born scientist who encouraged Roosevelt and America to build the first atomic bomb.
War Production Board WPB
This board halted the manufacture of nonessential items such as passenger cars. It assigned priorities for transportation and access to raw materials. It imposed a national speed limit and gasoline rationing because, due to the Dutch East Indies ending their exports of natural rubber to the U.S., they wanted to conserve rubber. They also built fifty-one synthetic rubber plants.
Office of Price Administration OPA
FDR created this in order to prevent inflation in the economy during WWII.
WAACS
The Women’s Army Corps (WAC) was the women’s branch of the United States Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) on 15 May 1942 by Public Law 554,[1] and converted to full status as the WAC in 1943. Its first director was Oveta Culp Hobby, a prominent society woman in Texas.[2][3]
