WWII Flashcards
WW2 Took Place From
1939-1945
Dictator of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
Allied Powers:
United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union (US, UK, USSR)
Axis Powers:
Germany, italy, Japan
This man worked to end racial discrimination in WW2 factories
A. Phillip Randolph
With the lend-lease act
The US supported the United Kingdom with food, supplies, and weapons before joining WW2
The attempt to wipe out an entire ethnic or religious group of people
genocide
The hatred of Jews
anti-semitism
Jews were forced to live in tightly-packed
ghettos
The attack the spurred the US to join WW2 (and who did it)
Pearl Harbor (Japan)
This group of people was illegally mass-interred/jailed in the United States during WW2
Japanese-Americans
Limiting the amounts of certain food and other products one can buy or use
rationing
Victims of the Holocaust include…
Jews, Roma, disabled people, Soviet POWs, homosexual men, and more