WW11 Flashcards
What bill allowed women to volunteer to serve in non combat positions
WAAC
women’s auxiliary army corps
WAVES
Women accepted for volunteer emergency service
Navy
WAFS
Women’s auxiliary ferrying squadron
Air Force
WASP
Women air force service piolets
Air Force
SPAR
Demoed Paramus and it’s English translation always ready
Coast guard
What did Einstein do
Let America know Germany may already have the bomb
What was the goal of the manhattan project
Produce a self sustaining atomic chain reaction where particles released from the splitting of one atom would cause another atom to break apart
What did they need for tee most powerful bomb ever
A special kind of uranium
Plutonium
What did Leo Szilard do
Discovered nuclear chain reaction (fission)
Patented idea for nuclear reactor
What did enrico Fermi do
Italian
Managed the chain reaction necessary for desired nuclear effect
What did John Oppenheimer do
Was in charge present at first site in Mexico
Why did Truman decide to use the bomb
End the war in Japan to save further American casualties
Show soviets we have it
Ebola gay
The b-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb
Little boy
Uranium
Hiroshima
More people
Fat man
Nagasaki
Plutonium
What developed the colored personnel for the aviation service
Civil aeronautics authority
Home field was
Selfridge field
Internment camps were in
Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Wyoming and Utah
Issei
Japanese American immigrants
Grandparents
Nisei
Children of Japanese immigrants
Born in America
Parents
Sansei
Second and third generation
Did Canada do the same for internment
Yes greatest mass movement in Canada
What were freed retainers given
23 dollars and a train ticket home
Korematsu vs us
JA takes case to Supreme Court
Court upholds internment for national security
Case later criticized as mistake
1970s redress movement
Wanted a government apology and monetary compensation
What acknowledged internment from racial prejudice
Civil liberties act
Which president provided redress for surviving detainees
Ronald regan
What was agreed at halts conference
Divide Germany into four zones
Elections held in countries of Eastern Europe
Poland both communist and not
Set up United Nations
When did leaders meet again
Potsdam
Potsdam conference
Truman replaces FDR
Churchill voted out
Reparations from Germany
Bring nazi war criminals to trial
Disagreements at Potsdam
Allies didn’t agree on how to divide Germany
Amount of reparations ok Germany
Soviet policy in Eastern Europe
Cold War Stalin does what
Makes sure communist governments came to power in all countries of Eastern Europe
Salami tactics
What did Russia take
Albania Bulgaria Poland Hungary Romania Czech East Germany
Manazar
Japanese internment camp
