World War 2 Flashcards
Battle of Stalingrad
Turning point in Europe. Soviet victory. German start retreat
Operation overload
Invasion of Normandy, France. Western Europe liberation and second front
V-E day (may8 1945)
Victory in Europe
Bataan death march 1942
After USA surrounded in Philippines. Lots of Prisoners Of War killed
Battle of midway June 1942
Us navy destroyed four aircraft Carrier. Weakened Japan to not able to continued offensively
Island hopping
Us navy strategy to take island and came closer to hop on island
Rabaul
Japanese strong island and USA block the island and pass it without attacking that island.
V-J day (sep 2, 1945)
Victory Japan.
Manhattan project
Secret us project to develop the atomic bomb. Trinity test first detonation on July 16, 1945
Executive order 9066 (1942)
Signed by FDR interment the people of German, Italian and mainly Japanese
Korematsu v. Us
Supremacy cort case that was against a Japanese man. Fred korematsu refused reallocate and was arrasted.
How did the U.S. which had been an isolationist power in the 1920s and early 1930s find itself involved in world war2?
After perl harber attac the US must enter the war. And then Germany and Italy did to the us retaliation. Before that the us working on Great Depression problems.
Why did the alliance win the war?
- Superior industrial power, essentially US.
- Key military victory
- east swamp
- Bad resource management by the Nazis.
- Effective intelligence
- Resistance of the occupied areas
Why did President Harry Truman decide to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
- To take Japan fastly and avoid costly operations
- To show US to other world
- Unexperince of the Truman
What does the interment of Japanese-American civilians tell us about the effects of war on a democratic state?
Which country are you on when it was comes to national security, they are violating it recklessly. And even the people supporting these decisions.
