WWII Terms Flashcards
First peacetime conscription act in the U.S. for WWII (also known as Selective Service and Training Act)
Burke-Wadsworth Act
Another name for Burke-Wadsworth Act; 1st peacetime conscription act in U.S. for WWII
Selective Service and Training Act
U.S. group that registered and selected men for conscription by Selective Service and Training Act
Draft boards
Coordinated defense projects; creation committee
Office of Production Management (OPM)
Committee helped create fridges to airplanes; convert everything to help the battle
War Production Board (WPB)
Committee helped give loans to people wanting to build factories
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Committee that created ceilings so inflation didn’t occur
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Committee that created no strike pledges and worked with unions to keep them in their jobs
National War Labor Board
Also known as Smith-Connally act; made it illegal for workers to protest
War Labor Disputes Act
Mexicans work in U.S. because of this
Bracero Program
Citizens grew these to provide produce for army officers
“victory gardens”
US raised tax rates on both individuals and corporations and increased taxes on excess profits
The Revenue Act of 1942
Consolidated government news services in America and abroad; Connection between battlefront and civilians
Office of War Information
Supreme Court; uphold freedom of speech
Hartzel v. United States
Cartoons about war
“Private Snafu” & “Der Fuehrer’s Face”
Paper that ordered Japanese internment
Executive Order 9066
Agency that handled internment
War Relocation Authority (WRA)
Females w/ full military status
Women’s Army Corps
Females in navy
WAVES
Flying females
WASPs
Female Coast Gaurd
SPARs
Female Marines
Women Reservists
Poster girl; “We can do it!”; encourage women workers (WWII)
Rosie the Riveter
Document after WWI; Germany affected greatly (negative)
Treaty of Versailles
Attempt to remove tensions between countries esp. France and Germany
Locarno Pact
Group by Pres. Wilson to prevent other wars; not very effective
League of Nations
U.S. laws that made them isolationist in beginning of WWII
Neutrality Acts
Tried to limit naval arms race
Washington Conference
US agreement that says war is bad
Kellog-Briand Pact
takes place in Manchuria; Japan invading Chinese islands; 1st example of appeasement
Mudken Incident
Italy invades African nation; makes Italy leave; 2nd example of appeasement
Abyssinian Crisis
Reaffirm Locarno Pact
Stresa Front
Fascists Vs Republicans; Fascists win
Spanish Civil War
letting countries do what they please
Appeasement
document concerning British and Germany’s battleships; allows (Hitler’s country) to have an army of battleships
Anglo-German Naval Agreement
Demilitarized zone for Treaty of Versailles; soon militarized by Hitler
Rhineland
Occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
Anschluss
Living space; Weltpolitik part 2
Lebensraum
Agreement not to act between Germany and Soviet Union; prevented 2-front war
Non-Aggression Pact
Alliance between Germany and Japan against Communism
Anti-Comintern Pact
Alliance between Germany and Italy
Rome-Berlin Axis
Czechoslovakia divided and Hitler given Sudetenland
Munich Conference
Hitler given this at Munich Conference
Sudetenland
Country split between USSR and Germany
Poland
Germany did this; no rules of sea battles; WWI & WWII
unrestricted submarine warfare
Allies guided merchant systems through ocean
convoy system
Group of German battleships to be used against sonar systems
wolf pack
Early sonar system; detects enemy ships
ASDIC
Anti submarine technology that detected submarines
radar
Dreadnaught of WWII
Bismarck
German air force
Luftwaffe
Turning point; 1st time German forces do not achieve major goal
Battle of Britain
Germans bomb British city
London Blitz
German soldiers fought against Soviet Union for control of the Russian leader’s namesake country
Battle of Stalingrad
Another name for battle of Normandy, or d day
Operation Overlord
Where D day took place
Normandy
Conflict where German soldiers attacked through dense forest, big surprise
Battle of the Bulge
“Cut of the Sickle”; German advance through Belgium
Manstein Plan
“Death’s Head”; Germans go into Poland to kill civilian Jews
Totenkopf
Concentration camps for Jews
Holocaust
When allied forced evacuated out of France because Germans surrounded them
Operation Dynamo
Fired from front of the ship; three large charges
squid
Fired from back of the ship; 24 small charges
hedgehog
Sea trap of mines
Dover barrage
Fast, small ships
frigate & corvette
Planes go from deck of the ship to the air
Catapult Aircraft Merchant Ships
Used as main warships of a fleet
Aircraft Carriers
Big space in the middle of the ocean; didn’t let airplanes fly long distances
Mid-Atlantic Gap
British single seat fighter plane
Spitfire
Group that looked at pictures and gave information abiut it
Central Interpretation Unit
Created German encryption
Enigma machine
Large aircrafts without propellers that were tethered to one place, prevent movement
barrage balloons
Transmit strong radio waves in the same frequency as the radar
jammer
Cloud of thin lightweight strips of metal cut to a specific size, which can be dispersed from a heavy bomber
chaffs
German “lightning” war during WWII; everything is fast
Blitzkreig
French state during WWII
Vichy, France
Fortifications along Franco-German border
Maginot line
Used to accurately drop explosions
bomb sights
British intelligence
MI 4
2 man German dive bomber
Stukas
British flying
RAF
WWII alliance between Germany, Japan, and Italy
Axis Powers
WWII alliance between France, English, and later U.S.
Allies
German tanks and infantry
Panzer units
Germany invades Soviet Union; largest invasion in history of warfare
Operation Barbarossa
WWII conflict at sea
Battle of the Atlantic
Nazi German leader
Adolph Hitler
Fascist Italian leader
Benito Mussolini
Leader of Soviet Union after Lenin
Joseph Stalin
U.S. President FDR during Great Depression
Franklin Roosevelt
