WW2 Flashcards
Reparations
-payments Germany was forced to make after world war 1 to franc and great Britten
Appeasement
- Giving in to an a greasers demand
- erups early policy’s for dealing with Hitter
Adolfo Hitler
-nazie leader of Germany
FDR
-president of US
Winston Churchill
-prim minister of great Britten
Axis powers
-Germany, Italy, and japan
Allies
-U.S, great Britten, France, Russia 20+ countries
Benito Mussolini
-fascist leader of Italy
Joseph Stalin
-communist leader of Russia
Tojo
-military leader of Japan
Nonaggression pact
- deal between Stalin and hitler not to fight for 10 years
- allowed hitler to invade Poland and Stalin promised to not intervene
- Russia got half if Poland
Dunkirk
- nazie cut of French and British troops in franc
- trapped 300,000+ troops at Dunkirk
- 900 boats form GB rescued them
Charles de Gaulle
-leader of free franc and the French resistencia
Resistance
-citizen how secretly worked agents the nazie
Blitzkrieg
- Lightning warfare
- Hitlers tactic of invashin
- air assault, pander tank, infantry
Battle of Briton
- Bombed for 9 moths
- England cracked the German code
- great Briton refused to serenader
Manchuria
-part of china invaded and taken over bye japan before World War II
Chaing Kai-shek
-the nashins list leader if China
Mao Zedong
-communist leder of china
Selective service
- Men 21-36 had to register for the draft
- first peace time draft
Navajo code talkers
- 400+ Navajo natives became code talkers in the pacific
- Japan never broke the code
- toke 20 seconds to send a message
Cost-plus
-military paid factory owners development and production coasts plus % profit
Liberty bonds
-raised 186 billion
Victory gardens
- home vegetable guardian
- produced 1/3 of the country’s vegetables
Rationing
-fair distribuchin of scars items
Gas, sugar, butter
German POW’s
Broute here to help with the potato harvest
