Terms Flashcards
Island hoping
Where allied forces took only the most strategically important islands, instead of each Japanese-held island
D-Day
Designated day
Manhattan project
A secret program with a goal to develop an atomic bomb
Kamikaze
Purposely crashing piloted planes into enemy ships
Selective training and service act…
The first peacetime draft in the country’s history. Men from 21 to 35 were required to register for the draft.
Enola gay
The b-29 bomber who dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
Cash and carry…
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Totalitarianism
Where the government controls every aspect of citizens’ lives.
Fascism
Political system where the state or government is seen as more important than individuals
Allied powers
Britain, France, America, Russia
Axis powers
Japan, Germany, Italy
Appeasement
Policy of avoiding war with an aggressive nation by giving to its demands
Lend-lease act
Allowing the president to aid any nation believed vital to US defense
War production board WPB
Government created it to oversee the conversion of factories to war production
Tuskegee airmen
African American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee army air field in Alabama. Benjamin Davis jr. led the group.
Zoot suit riots
June 1943
Groups of sailors attacked Mexican Americans wearing zoot suits for 10 days.
Internment
Forces relocation and imprisonment. Americans did this to Japanese and Germans and Italians
Genocide
The extermination of an entire group of people
Kristallnacht and blitzkreig
1- night of broken glass where many homes and businesses were destroyed by nazis.
2- lightening war
