Final Second Semester PEOPLE/TERMS Flashcards
Harry Truman
President Warns Japan about a new weapon
A rain of ruin from the air
Enola gay
The actual plane B - 29
Paul Tibbets
Dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
Eva Braun
Hitler’s Mistress
Dwight Eisenhower
He led the allies in operation torch North Africa campaign
Corrie ten brown
Dutch Christian who hid Jews
“Hiding place”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German Protestant pastor who gave his life
“The cost of Discipleship”
Oskar Schindler
Businessmen who gave his life saving Jews
Heinrich Himmler
Head of the SS (Black shirts) were in charge of the holocaust
Douglas MacArthur
Promises his men “I shall return”
Isoroku Yamamoto
Admiral of the Japanese navy plans the attack
Hideki Tojo
Dictator of the military government
Hirohito
Japanese emperor becomes a puppet
James Doolittle
He led the 80 volunteers
B -25 bombers strike Tokyo
Joseph Stalin
Becomes leader in Russia
Ruthless person
Island hopping
Purpose was to get close enough to launch bombing attack on Japan
Convoy
Protection of merchant ships from U-boats by having the ships travel in large groups
Manhattan Project
Atomic bomb was formed
Kamikaze
Japanese suicide planes used in desperation
Auschwitz
Largest death camp
Was the most infamous European theater
Blitzkrieg
Lightning warfare
Fast and furious to conquer France and Europe
Bushido code
Japanese warriors fight to the death or commit suicide
Hiroshima
Japanese city where the atomic bomb was dropped
Dunkirk
Amphibious operation that miraculously rescued the British and French armies
