Vocab WW2 And Important Dates Flashcards
Lend- Lease act
Allowed the US citizens to send war supplies to any nation essential to the defense of US without having to join the war
Cash and Carry
Helped the US preserve neutrality while aiding the Allies as long as they crossed the Atlantic on their own ship and paid with cash.
Allied and Axis powers countries
Allies:
Great Britain
United States
Soviet Union
France
Axis:
Germany
Italy
Japan
D-Day
Allied forces invaded northern France by landing on the beach in Normandy
June 6,1944
V-j Day
Victory in Japan which marked the end of WW2. (September 2,1945)
Rationing
Limit on purchasing certain high demand items
Internment
Putting a person in prison or other kind of detention, generally in wartime
Rosie the Riverter
Represented the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during WW2. Encouraged white middle class women to work outside home during ww2
Pearl Harbor
December 7,1941
D day
June 6,1944
V day
May 8,1945
V-J day
August 15,1945- Sep 2,1945
