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WW2 Test Flashcards

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1
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Women did all roles during war except…

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fighting

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What do the 1st 2nd and 3rd Neutrality Acts say

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1st- no selling weapons to any country at war
2nd- you can sell non military goods on cash carry basis
3rd- you can sell weapons on cash carry basis

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NYE committee

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Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota

  • revealed that enormous profits were made during the WWI by American financiers and munitions makers
  • these groups forced America into WWI
  • Congress was prompted to act!
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4
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What are the V1 and V2

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German missles

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5
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Where were the nazi concentration camps located at

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poland

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6
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how many jews died

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6 million

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7
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what was guatecanal known for

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1st victory in the pacific

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8
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What happended at mt. sarabaki?

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  • 23k US troops died to take iwo jima

- victory marked by raising us flag atop mt. sarabaki

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What were the 2 names of the bombs dropped on japan

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Fat Man- Nagasaki- Uranium

Little Boy- Hiroshima- Plutonium

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10
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What was the turning point in pacific

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battle of midway

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Battle of Coral Sea

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  • off the coast of Australia
  • -aerial battle between planes from carriers(1st time ever)
  • no clear winner, but the US did block the invasion of Australia
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Doolittles Raid on Tokyo

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  • Lt Doolittle led 16 bombers to tokyo and other cities

- attack did little damage, but boosted american morale by showing japan we will fight

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Baton Death March

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  • FDR orders McAuthur to australia
  • phillipines fall
  • POWs forced to march 60 miles
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14
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Which island in pacific did japan not control

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Hawaii?

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15
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Which island in pacific did japan not control

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Hawaii?

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16
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what was the object of the D-day invasion

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capture the city of caen

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17
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what was Atlantic wall

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The Atlantic Wall was an extensive system of coastal defence and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944 along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom

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18
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what was the name of the d-day operation

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overlord

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how many germans were killed in battle of ardens

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80k-100k

20
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What battle was lexington and yorktown sunk in

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Lexington- coral sea

Yorktown- battle of midway

21
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Who was at the Yalta Conference and what was discussed

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  • FDR, Churchill, Stalin
  • discussed the future of Europe following the defeat of nazi germany
  • polish question
  • future of germany and the “declaration on liberated europe”
  • conditions of entry for soviet union into war with japan
22
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Who was at the Potsdam Conference and what was discussed

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  • Attlee
  • Stalin
  • Truman
  • said they would govern germany together
  • fell apart soon after agreements were made
23
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Montacasino

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4 assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II
-INTENT: to breakthrough to Rome

24
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Who was the president of the Munich Pact

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Chamberlain & Daladier // September 1938; Britain & France appease Hitler by giving him the Sudetenland w/o a single shot fired

25
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Informal surrender date of japan

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August 15, 1945

26
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When was VE day

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May 8, 1945

27
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Allies

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USA Britain China Soviet Union

28
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Axis Powers

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Japan Italy Nazi Germany

29
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WPB

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War Production Board
convert peacetime industries to produce war materials 
-cars to building bomber planes 
-By 1944, American production levels doubled those of all the Axis powers together
-1945
-300,000 planes 
-80,000 landing crafts 
-100,000 armored cars & tanks 
-6 million rifles 
-41 Billion rounds of ammunition
30
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FDR Freedom Speech

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U.S. & Britain stand for:(FDR gave the speech)

  • Freedom of Speech
  • Freedom of Worship
  • Freedom from Want
  • Freedom from Fear
  • FDR proposed it
31
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Rommel

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German commander at the Atlantic Wall

  • led the Allied troops in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers in North Africa whom chased the Afrika Korps
  • commits suicide after Hitler
32
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Patton

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led troops In the Battle of Normandy

33
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William Freidman

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US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army’s Signal Intelligence Service (SIS)
-broke the Japanese code in 1940

34
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Justice James F. Byrnes

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Byrnes who shared information with the new president Truman on the atomic bomb project

  • head of the Office of War Mobilization
  • left the Supreme Court to head Roosevelt’s Office of Economic Stabilization,
  • Truman appointed Byrnes as Secretary of State on July 3, 1945
35
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Mussilini

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  • established the Fascist Party in Italy
  • establishing a totalitarian regime in Italy
  • stressed nationalism
  • won the support of the people and Italian king appointed him the head of government
  • gained fascist control of Italian life
  • made Italy a totalitarian state
  • “Black Shirts”
36
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Stalin

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leader of the Soviet Union

  • last name: man of steel
  • took control of (Russia) bc of its establishment as a communist state
  • he created a model communist state
  • abolished all private owned farms with large gov farms
  • made agricultural and industrial growth the economic goals of the SU
  • established a totalitarian government
  • millions died under Stalin (8 mill-10)
37
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Hirohito

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  • emperor of japan

- wanted to reduce the reliance on foreign imports so they took china to get resources

38
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Churchill

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Chamberlain political rival in GB

39
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Churchill

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Chamberlain political rival in GB

40
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Eisenhower

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responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942-43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45 from the Western Front.

41
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Daladiere

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French premier that signed the Munich agreement

42
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Selective Service Training Act

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August 1990,

  • first peacetime draft in US history
  • required all American men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register for military service
  • FDR signs the act
43
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Lend Lease Act

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1940-Britain ran out of money to wage war

  • act would allow US to lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital to the defense of the US”
  • US could send arms to Britain if Britain promised to return them or pay for them after the war
  • US contributed over $50 billion to the act
  • US should become the “Great Arsenal Act of Democracy”
44
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Atlantic Charter

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  • 1941

- declaration of principles in which the US and Great Britain set forth their goals in opposing the Axis powers

45
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Wind Talkers

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  • U.S. needed a code to communicate that the Japanese couldn’t break
  • U.S. Intelligence bet the Japanese never bothered to learn about the Native American languages
  • another name: code talkers
  • mostly Navajo
  • Native Americans in the Military bc of this
46
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What are the Nuremberg trials

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  • tried all nazis who were involved in the execution of jews

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