ww2 Flashcards
Volunteers and draftees
6 million volunteered 10 million drafted 18-45 must serve 18-65 must register
Production boom
Ford is now building tanks, planes, cars, and ships and we are mobilizing for war
Japanese Internment
concentration camp that held between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast.
Battle of Britain,
in the battle of Britain the natzis air bombed Britain but they fought hard it was there finest hour
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union but it was stopped by the Russian winter
where was D-day
beaches of Normandy
Race to Berlin
the race between ussr and the us to Berlin to capter hittler
Battle of Midway
a 3 day battle between US and japan that is a turning point for the US
Lebensraum
the territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany.
Remilitarizing the Rhineland,
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany.
Anschluss
Anschluss is the term used to describe the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in March 1938
Munich Pact
the deal between Hitler and Neville Chamberlain to extend germanys territory to the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia
Nuremberg Laws
2 laws that separated jews form the germans and took away jewish rights.
Fascists
an advocate or follower of the political philosophy or system of fascism.
Il Duce
Benito Mussolini
