Chapter 5 WWII 1 Flashcards
A. Philip Randolph
African American labor leader who organized a march on Washington to protest discrimination
Nisei
the 1st generation Japanese American be born in the U.S
Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act
limited the right to strike and crucial industries
Rationing
1-way civilians could participate in the war effort
Office of Price Administration
They froze wages and prices (set prices in wages)
The opening of a second front
Stalin pressured the Allies to attack the German so the German would pull troops away from Russia
Aachen
1st German city fall to the Allies
D-Day
6th of June 1944
American opened another front attacking the German in France
Battle of Stalingrad
Major German’s defeat. Ended German attacked Russia
Battle of the Bulge
Germany last attacked in the West led to Germany’s defeat
Battle of Midway
Turn the tide against the Japanese Navy in the Pacific. We’re never able to go on the offensive