Pearl Harbor - Homefront Flashcards

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U.S commander of the pacific theater
Promises his men that “ I shall return”

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Gen. Douglas MacArthur

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In charge of the “Suicide Mission” 80 volunteers

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Col James Doolittle

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American fleet commander

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Admiral Chester Nimitz

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4
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Stops the invasion of Australia

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Battle of the coral sea

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5
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US Defeats the Japs and stop their planned invasions of Hawaii

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Battle of midway

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6 months of bloody fighting to control airfields
-first major island taken from the japs

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Battle of Guadalcanal

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American strategy to win the pacific theater.
Get close to lunch bombing attacks on Japan

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“Island hopping”

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The systematic mass slaughter of the jews and others

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The Holocaust

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Head of the ss ( Black shirts) were in charge of the holocaust

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Heinrich Himmler

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Dug trenches and were machined gunned to death

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Einsatzgruppen

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Jews rounded up in cities (Poland) closed and sealed off behind barbed wire and forced to work and would starve to death

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Ghettos

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Jews gassed in shower and cremated in ovens
DC: used to exterminate people
(Auschwitz)

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Death camps / gas chambers

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13
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Shipped to death camps

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Holding tanks

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14
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Dutch Christian who his Jews “Hiding place”

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Corrie Ten Boom

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15
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Businessman who gave his life saving Jews

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Oskar Schindler

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German protestant pastor who gave his life “ The cost of discipleship”

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Jewish girl who wrote a diary - “diary of Anne frank”

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Anne Frank

18
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Held prisoners at war mostly in Germany

19
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used slave labor to help the German war effort many worked to death

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Work camps

20
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Rules of war

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Geneva Convention

21
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The activites of civilians in a nation at war.

22
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Everything/ Everyone involved in war effort in some ways

23
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Rise an army

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Soldiers were called GI’s

24
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Symbol of the American women 1/3 of the workforce

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Rosie the riveter

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Food, and supplies such as gas, tires and clothing
Rationing Books
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People grew food for the war
Victory Gardens
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Permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the united states on short term labor contracts
Bracero program
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Loans given to the Gov.
War bonds