WW2 Flashcards
Holocaust
The systematic extermination of Jews in Germany.
D-Day
The allied invasion of Normandy.
Appeasement
Giving into demands to prevent aggression
Blitzkrieg
military tactic of overwhelming enemy forces through speed and firepower
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Two Japanese cities they were devastated by the atomic bomb
Lend Lease Act
Enabled the U.S. to send supplies to allied nations.
Dr.Jonas Salk
Created a Vaccine for Polio
GI Bill
Provides benefits to veterans
Baby Boom
significant increase in birth rates after WW2
Adolf Hitler
Dictator of Germany
Hirohito
Emperor of Japan
Rationing
controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, services,
Executive Order 9066
authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security. Most of these people were placed in internment camps
Manhattan Project
development of the atomic bomb
Tuskegee Airmen
elite group of fire pilots
Neutrality Acts
A series of acts designed to keep the U.S. out of foreign wars
Non-aggression Pact
a treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other.
Auschwitz
a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II
Joseph Stalin
Leader of Russia and an allie of the U.S.
Harry Truman
Served as president of the United States after the death of FDR. He also made the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme commander of the allied troops on D-Day
Chester Nimitz
a fleet admiral of the United States Navy.
WW2
was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945
Douglass MacArthur
general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II
George Patton
he helped lead the Allies to victory in the invasion of Sicily, and was instrumental to the liberation of Germany from the Nazis
Omar Bradley
as commander of the First Army, he was instrumental to the success of the Normandy campaign
Benito Mussolini
Leader of Italy. He founded and led the National Fascist party
George Marshall
general of the army and U.S. Army chief of staff during World War II
