Final Exam Flashcards
Adolf hitler
Rose to power in 1933 quest to dominate Europe and the world
Good neighbor policy
Declared the U.S. Would not depend on military force to exercise its influence in the region (Latin)
Chang Kai shek
Led the Chinese nationalists to fight against the Japanese
Neutrality acts
Avoid entanglement in foreign wars
Spanish civil war
July 1936 nationalist fascist attacked the democratically elected government
Appeasement
British prime minister Neville chamberlain offered an hitter an appeasement that would give hitter Germany if he left Czech alone
Joseph Stalin
Soviet permier
Winston Churchill
British new prime minister vowed he will never surrender to hitler
Battle of Britain
Handed hitlers first defeat being outgunned
Pearl Harbor
December 7 1941- 183 aircraft lifted off six Japanese carriers and attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet
Internment camps
Relocation centers
Selective service act
Register men of age In draft
Rosie the riveter
Advertising women who worked in a war industry
D-day
Largest amphibious assault in world history June 6 1944
United Nations
Mew peacekeeping organization, security council would wield decisive , allied powers China , France , great britiian, the Soviet Union, U.S.
Hiroshima
First bomb and nicknamed little boy
Nagasaki
Fat man , the second bomb
Holocaust
Jews
Cold War
Soviet Union communists
Harry s Truman
Senator of Missouri democratic
Dwight d Eisenhower
General American army