Pearl Harbor - Homefront Flashcards
U.S commander of the pacific theater
Promises his men that “ I shall return”
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
In charge of the “Suicide Mission” 80 volunteers
Col James Doolittle
American fleet commander
Admiral Chester Nimitz
Stops the invasion of Australia
Battle of the coral sea
US Defeats the Japs and stop their planned invasions of Hawaii
Battle of midway
6 months of bloody fighting to control airfields
-first major island taken from the japs
Battle of Guadalcanal
American strategy to win the pacific theater.
Get close to lunch bombing attacks on Japan
“Island hopping”
The systematic mass slaughter of the jews and others
The Holocaust
Head of the ss ( Black shirts) were in charge of the holocaust
Heinrich Himmler
Dug trenches and were machined gunned to death
Einsatzgruppen
Jews rounded up in cities (Poland) closed and sealed off behind barbed wire and forced to work and would starve to death
Ghettos
Jews gassed in shower and cremated in ovens
DC: used to exterminate people
(Auschwitz)
Death camps / gas chambers
Shipped to death camps
Holding tanks
Dutch Christian who his Jews “Hiding place”
Corrie Ten Boom
Businessman who gave his life saving Jews
Oskar Schindler
German protestant pastor who gave his life “ The cost of discipleship”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jewish girl who wrote a diary - “diary of Anne frank”
Anne Frank
Held prisoners at war mostly in Germany
POW camps
used slave labor to help the German war effort many worked to death
Work camps
Rules of war
Geneva Convention
The activites of civilians in a nation at war.
Homefront
Everything/ Everyone involved in war effort in some ways
Total war
Rise an army
Soldiers were called GI’s
Symbol of the American women 1/3 of the workforce
Rosie the riveter
Food, and supplies such as gas, tires and clothing
Rationing Books
People grew food for the war
Victory Gardens
Permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the united states on short term labor contracts
Bracero program
Loans given to the Gov.
War bonds
