WWII Flashcards
Germany, Italy, Japan, Soviet Union (In beginning)
Axis Powers
Britain, France, US, China, Soviet Union (At End)
Allied Powers
The acts imposed certain restrictions on Americans during times of war. Americans were prohibited from sailing on ships owned by nations at war. They also prevented Americans from making loans or selling arms to warring countries.
Neutrality Acts
Immediate cause for U.S. involvement in WWII
Pearl Harbor
Controlled the U.S. economy during WWII
War Production Board
African Americans were fighting for Victory against fascism abroad & victory against discrimination at home
Double “V” Campaign
When the men returned home from war, they wanted to marry and have families. The generation born after WWII ended is often referered to as this
Baby Boom
The U.S. government gave the veterans (returning soldiers from WWII) Money for education,
Housing assistance and Job opportunities.
G.I. Bill
Top Secret project in which the U.S. develop the world’s first Nuclear Weapon
Manhattan Project
Organization on basis of cooperation between the Great Powers not on equality
*Aided move away from colonialism, mediated regional conflicts, provided food & aid to the world.
United Nations
FDR’s wife/widow who after WWII, wrote “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights” passed by the United Nations citing human rights all people around the world are entitled to.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Nazi leaders of WWII were charged with Crimes against Humanity for their actions during the Holocaust.
Nuremberg Trials
West coast re-location centers where Japanese Americans were forced to live under watchful guard during WWII
Internment Camps
Hard Labor and Death Camps where Jewish, Slavic (Eastern European), Political Dissenters, The physical and mentally handicapped were forced to work or were killed. They were given little food. Many died of disease, some were tortured, others were killed immediately.
Concentration Camps
National Socialist Workers Party led by Adolph Hitler, who took control of Germany in 1933.
Nazi’s
Leader of the Italian Fascist movement who aligned with the Axis Powers during WWII
Benito Mussolini
Leader of the Japanese military during WWII
Hideki Tojo
Allowed to send weapons to Great Britain and other democracies regardless of their ability to pay
Lend-Lease Act
Exchange 50 old American destroyers to Britain for the right to build bases on British controlled land
Destroyers for Bases Deal
FDR & Winston Churchill agree to a post war world of democracy *similar to Wilson’s 14 points
Atlantic Charter
Japanese Internment camps,Imprisonment of citizens is constitutional,Wartime conditions justified the limits placed on civil rights
Korematsu v. US
