World war II Flashcards
What is the idea that one race or group of people is better than other races?
Racism
What is a ruler who has total control of a country?
Dictator
Get ready to fight
Mobilize
Where Japanese Americans were held during WWII
Internment camp
Large ship that carries planes fAr from land
Aircraft bomber
Where Hitler sent the Jewish people
Concentration camp
Name the three countries known as the Axis Powers.
Germany, Italy, Japan
Who blamed the Jewish people for Germany’s problems?
Hitler
What countries were known as the Allied Powers.
United States, Great Britain, France! Soviet Union
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union?
Stalin
Stalin made a secret promise to ———- that they would not attack each other.
Hitler
When did WWII begin?
When Germany invaded Poland
Which president wanted to stay out of the war, although he did send supplies and equipment to the British ?
Franklin d Roosevelt
When did America enter WWII?
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7 1941
Name some changes that happened in America during WWII.
Factories switched from producing consumer goods to making war supplies.
Women and African Americans went to work in factories.
Women took jobs that only men had done before and were nicknamed Rosie the Riveter.
Many items were rationed such as sugar, meat and gasoline.
People planted victory gardens.
Who was the prime minister of Britain and gave hope to millions as they listened to his radio speeches?
Winston Churchill
What was the name of a group of African American pilots who flew many successful missions over Italy ?
Tuskegee Airmen
What and when was D-Day?
June 6, 1944 - Date of a planned military operation- On that day, Allied forces invaded northern France on the beaches of Normandy. Within 10 days, approximately 1,000,000 Allied troops had landed in France.
May 8, 1945 was known as ——–
V E Day (Victory in Europe)
In the Pacific, the Allies used a plan called island hopping and captured the island of ——–
Iwo Jima
What was a major victory in the Pacific for the Allies?
Midway
Who was used to send secret codes that the Japanese were never able to break?
Navajo code talkers using the Navajo language
What US president decide to drop 2 atomic bombs so that US soldiers’ lives would not be lost with a normal invasion?
Harry Truman
Where were the 2 atomic bombs dropped in hopes to end the war?
Japan (Hiroshima, Nagasaki)
Who was the emperor of Japan who surrendered the war after the atomic bombs were dropped ?
Hirohito
What is August 14, 1945 known as?
V J Dat (victory in Japan)
What do we call the mass murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis?
The holocaust
During WWII, the US and other allies began a new international organization called the ———-to keep world peace.
United Nations (UN)
