World War II Flashcards
Appeasement
Started by Britain, France, and League of Nations against Italy and Germany
Policy that grants concessions to potential enemies hoping that the peace can be kept
Used to prevent future wars
Adolf Hitler
Broke Munich Pact w/Mussolini
Blitzkrieg on European countries
Tries to attack USSR w/Operation Barbarossa
Joseph Stalin
Transformed USSR into a industrial country
Used propaganda for support
Created a cult of personality
Benito Mussolini
Leader of the fascism party
Outlawed every other political party than his own
Made popular party called the Black Shirts
Hideki Tojo
PM of Japan
Expanded Japan’s military
Wanted the U.S to get out of the Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Commander of the U.S Army in East Asia
Told by F.D.R to surrender to Japan in the Bataan Death March
He eventually liberated the Phillipines
Totalitarian State
Single, strong, charismatic leader
Use of terror, spies, secret police
Indoctrination of the youth
Pearl Harbor
Americans thought lines on radar were not a threat until it was too late
Made Americans suspicious of Japanese Americans
Japanese flyers crashed over 18 American ships
Volunteerism
Women joined the war in behind the scene jobs
Democrats and Republicans forget their differences to help the U.S
People from all races and backgrounds help
Doolittle’s Raid
U.S. used night bombing
Used so the U.S could retaliate against Japan
U.S gained minimal advantage
Bataan Death March
Japan took Americans as POWs, made them march over 60 miles even the sick
Troops left without a leader
Japan went against Geneva Convention rules
Battle of Coral Sea
Took place in Papa New Guinea on the Coral Sea
Japan tried to take Port Moresby
1st time where people saw new technology, and did not see the enemy
Japanese Internment
Sent Japanese Americans away to camps until war was over
Americans thought that Japanese Americans would help Japan with the war
Passed with Executive Order 9066
