World War 2 Flashcards
Aryans
Is a term expressing various etho-linguistic or racial concepts.
Anti-semitism
Discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish religion or heritage.
Genocide
Is the arbitrary killing of all or part of a racial, ethnic, religious or national groups
Final solution
Was Germany’s plan to exterminate Jews
Rationing
Is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services
Internment camp
Camps that Japanese had to go to after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
What were the years of WWII
1939 -1945
What was the purpose if the executive order 9066
It cleared the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans to interment camps
What effect did WWII have on the American economy
Rationing
Who was Rosie the riveter
Was an image used to empower women to work in traditionally male jobs
List the ways Americans on the homefront were impacted by the war. What three things were Americans supposed to do?
- Conserving and rationing resources
- Planting victory gardens
- Buying war bonds
Who were the Tuskegee Airman?
Were the first African American aviators in the united states
List the tactics the Nazis used against Jews during the holocaust
Boycott of Jewish stores, threats, segregation, and imprisonment and killing of Jews and others in concentration camps and death camps
Who freed the concentration camp survivors
US
What was the atomic bomb
Bombs that the US made to bomb the Japanese.
