Unit 10 Modules 7.9-7.11 Flashcards

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political party of the mass movement Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the party came to power in Germany in 1933 and governed by totalitarian methods until 1945. (Nazi) Party German political party led by Adolf Hitler, who became chancellor of Germany in 1933. The party’s ascent was fueled by huge World War I reparation payments, economic depression, fear of communism, labor unrest, and rising unemployment.

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National Socialists Party

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Born in Austria and failed painter who used Germany’s bad economic situation to rise into power and blame Jews. He became a Fascist leader and led the Holocaust and WW2 with the Nazi party

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Adolf Hitler

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lightning war tactic used by Nazi Germany, which helped them win against multiple countries. This was also a military tactic calculated to create psychological shock and resultant disorganization in enemy forces through the employment of surprise, speed, and superiority in matériel or firepower.

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Blitzkrieg

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. The passage of this marked the beginning of a congressional shift away from isolationism. Congress passed a series of acts that, in case of a war, made it illegal for companies to sell weapons or transport goods to any nation at war, as America’s initial response to the rise of totalitarianism was complete isolationism (trade included). When the war began, Congress amended this to allow U.S. companies to sell weapons to the Allies on a “Cash and Carry” basis

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Neutrality Act of 1939

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coalition headed by Germany,, and Japan that opposed the French, Britain, Russia, and US in World War II.

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Axis powers

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Passed in March 1941 by Congress with the help of FDR. The United States allowed America to send war supplies to Allied nations and transport war-related goods to Europe using convoys. This also transformed the U.S. into an “arsenal of democracy,” and helped end the depression in America.

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Lend-Lease

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When FDR and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill secretly planned a war strategy if the United States entered the war, and It also laid the foundation for a post-war United Nations. August 1941 agreement between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill that outlined potential war aims and cemented the relationship between the United States and Britain.

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Atlantic Charter

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December 7, 1941, surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.

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Pearl Harbor

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series of agreements between the U.S. and Mexican governments to allow temporary laborers from Mexico, known as this, to work legally in the United States.Began in 1942, As men left to fight in the war and work in the factories there was a shortage of farmers. The U.S. government came to an agreement with Mexico for temporary migrant farmers to work the agricultural lands throughout the western part of the United States. This caused. This caused Zoot Suit Riots, (Riots in 1943 that broke out in Los Angeles and other US cities) As violence escalated white servicemen joined the attacks, assaulting young Hispanic males they encountered

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Bracero

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media icon associated with female defense workers during World War II. Since the 1940s this has stood as a symbol for women in the workforce and for women’s independence.

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“Rosie the Riveter”

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the forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during World War II.World War II Impact on Japanese Americans: Due to the attack on Pearl Harbor, people feared that Japanese-Americans were spying or helping prepare for a Japanese invasion of America. In 1942, FDR issued Executive Order 9066, which ordered 112,000 Japanese Americans to move into camps throughout America. The Japanese in these camps faced bad living conditions and a lack of independence and rights. Japanese Americans also faced unwarranted and terrible racism along with racial stereotypes (Korematsu v. U.S.)

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Japanese Internment

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legal case in which the US Supreme Court, on December 18, 1944, upheld (6–3) the conviction of Fred —a son of Japanese immigrants who was born in Oakland, California—for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during World War II. When Japanese Americans faced unwarranted and terrible racism along with racial stereotypes after WW2.

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Korematsu v. U.S.

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U.S. legislation adopted in 1944 that provided various benefits to veterans of World War II. This act enabled veterans to obtain grants for school and college tuition, low-interest mortgage and small-business loans, job training, hiring privileges, and unemployment benefits. This act also provided for full disability coverage and the construction of additional VA hospitals. Later legislation extended the benefits to all who had served in the armed forces.

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GI

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The army volunteer organization for women during World War II. US Army unit created during World War II to enable women to serve in noncombat positions. Never before had women until this, with the exception of nurses, served within the ranks of the U.S. Army.

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WAC

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The navy volunteer organization for women during World War II, ultimately disbanded in 1972. Established on July 30, 1942, as the U.S. Navy’s corps of female members.

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WAVES

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people who have religious, moral or political objections either to all wars or, less commonly, to a particular war. one who opposes bearing arms or who objects to any type of military training and service. Some refuse to submit to any of the procedures of compulsory conscription. Although all objectors take their position on the basis of conscience, they may have varying religious, philosophical, or political reasons for their beliefs.

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Conscientious Objector

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Series of riots in 1943 in Los Angeles, California, sparked by white hostility toward Mexican American teenagers who dressed in suits — suits with long jackets with padded shoulders and baggy pants tapered at the bottom.

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Zoot Suit Riots

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any person captured or interned by a belligerent power during war. They had the worst conditions in camps set by their capturer, Japanese Army killed them during WW2

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POW

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Prime minister of Britian during WW2. was one of Britain’s greatest 20th-century heroes. He is particularly remembered for his indomitable spirit while leading Great Britain to victory in World War II, who rallied the citizens and helped the British win.

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Winston Churchill

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a form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state. By the beginning of World War II, used by Nazi Germany under Hitler, this had become synonymous with absolute and oppressive single-party government.

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Totalitarianism

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The slogan African Americans used during World War II to state their twin aims to fight for victory over fascism abroad and victory over racism at home. When Blacks in America faced racial discrimination in segregated military units as well as in war-related jobs at home, and Civil Rights Leader A. Philip Randolph threatened to “march on Washington” to force FDR to help Blacks. As a result, President Roosevelt offered equal pay for Black workers and created the Fair Employment Practices Commission

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“Double V Campaign”

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allied nations could buy American made war materials, but had to pay in cash and had to transport on their own ships.When the war began, Congress amended the Neutrality Acts to allow U.S. companies to sell weapons to the Allies on this basis. This allowed the U.S. to aid the Allies while remaining neutral

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“Cash-and Carry”

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After the Japanese landed in the Philippines in May 1942, nearly 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners were forced to endure a 60-mile forced march; during the ordeal, 10,000 prisoners died or were killed. March in the Philippines of some 66 miles (106 km) that 76,000 prisoners of war (66,000 Filipinos, 10,000 Americans) were forced by the Japanese military to endure in April 1942, during the early stages of World War II.

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Bataan Death March

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American general who stopped at the Elbe River, where he had agreed to meet up with Red Army troops who were charging from the east to Berlin. After an intense assault by the Soviets, the German capital of Berlin fell, and on April 25 Russian and American forces linked up in Torgau on the Elbe River. The 34th president of the United States (1953–61), who had been supreme commander of the Allied forces in western Europe during World War II

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The name for the invasion of D-Day in the Nazi occupied France. During World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war), with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France.

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Operation Overlord

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June 6, 1944 invasion of German-occupied France by Allied forces. The landings opened up a second front in Europe and marked a major turning point in World War II.

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D-Day

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The turning point battle in the Pacific for the US. First engagement between Japanese and U.S. Navy six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in June of 1942. The battle resulted in a U.S. victory.

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Battle of Midway

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This strategy, employed in the Pacific by the U.S. in World War II, directed American and Allied forces to avoid heavily fortified Japanese islands and concentrate on less heavily defended islands in preparation for a combined air, land, and sea invasion of Japan.

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Island Hopping

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(suicidal airplane crashes) pilots who flew planes into U.S. warships and airplanes, refusing to surrender

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Kamikaze

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The Nazi regime’s genocidal effort to eradicate Europe’s Jewish population during World War II, which resulted in the death of 6 million Jews and millions of other “undesirables” — Slavs, Poles, Gypsies, homosexuals, the physically and mentally disabled, and Communists.

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Holocaust

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meeting during World War II in Morocco, between U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and their respective military chiefs and aides, who planned future global military strategy for the western Allies. Though invited, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin declined to attend.

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Casablanca Conference

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In February, 1945, the “Big Three” met again to create a plan for Europe after the war was over. At the this event a few major things were agreed upon: Stalin agreed to send troops to help the U.S. invade Japan, They agreed to allow self-determination in nations freed from Nazi rule, They agreed to occupy Germany after the war, andThey agreed to create and join a United Nations

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Yalta Conference

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In July 1945, the new “Big Three” met at this event to discuss the end of World War II. Here, President Truman learned the atomic bomb was ready and issued a declaration; If Japan did not surrender, it would face “prompt and utter destruction”.

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Potsdam Conference

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In 1943, Roosevelt (U.S.), Churchill (Britain) and Stalin (Soviet Union),met here to strategize a war plan to defeat Nazi Germany and spilt up Germany. At this event, the “Big Three” agreed to open up a second front in the west to divide the German Army. This included Operation Overlord (D-Day) (June 6, 1944) was the invasion of Nazi occupied France, and the Normandy invasion, which was deadly, but the Allied victory created a Western Front

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Tehran Conference

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33rd president of the United States (1945–53), who led his country through the final stages of World War II and through the early years of the Cold War, vigorously opposing Soviet expansionism in Europe and sending U.S. forces to turn back a communist invasion of the South. He became the president when Roosevelt died at the beginning of his fourth term. A Democrat, he was responsible for ending WWII by dropping atomic bombs on Japan, continuing FDR’s New Deal Policies, putting effort into civil rights legislation, leading America in the beginning of the Cold War with his Doctrine, and leading the U.S through the Korean War.

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Harry S. Truman

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first used in WW2 by the US in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war. Weapon with great explosive power that results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of a heavy element such as plutonium or uranium.

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Atomic Bomb

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the American B-29 bomber, dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

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Enola Gay

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When Japan refused to surrender following the Potsdam Declaration, President Truman ordered the bombing of here on August 6, 1945. Atomic bomb, Little Boy, dropped by the U.S. on the Japanese cities on August 6, 1945. This bomb immediately killed 70,000–80,000 civilians.

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Hiroshima

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Atomic bomb, Fat Man, dropped by the U.S. on the Japanese cities on August 9, following a previous bomb dropped. This explosion immediately killed 100,000 civilians. Many survivors of these bombings later developed health issues due to the radiation exposure. Five days after the second bomb was dropped, Japan announced its surrender.

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Nagasaki

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Someone who overstepped presidential orders and used excessive force to disperse the veterans and their families in the bonus army situation. U.S. general who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II, administered postwar Japan during the Allied occupation that followed, and led United Nations forces during the first nine months of the Korean War.

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Douglas MacArthur

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On August 14, 1945, when it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay. Coming several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought six years of hostilities to a final and highly anticipated close.

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V-J Day

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The deadliest war known to man, that eventually shifted the world power from Europe to the US. Conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China.

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World War II