WWII Test Flashcards
winston churchill
prime minister of Britain - democracy
hideki tojo
prime minister of japan - military dictatorship
fdr
president of us for majority of the war
harry s truman
pres. of us after fdr died; made the order to drop the atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki
dorie miller
won a navy cross medal for his bravery during pearl harbor and has an aircraft carrier named after him
douglas macarthur
five star general who led the war in the pacific theater (accepted japan’s surrender)
dwight d eisenhower
five star general who led the war in the european theater (planned and executed d-day)
442nd combat team
segregated troops of japanese americans who had family living in japanese internment camps in the us
101st airborne
liberated concentration/death camp inmates and held off the Germans on d-day
761st tank battalion
first black american combat squat who fought the battle of the bulge
tuskegee airmen
aa aviators (aka the redtails) who escorted bombers into enemy territory
navajo code talkers
sent secret messages for americans into the pacific because the japanese wouldn’t be able to crack them
iwo jima and okinawa
2 battles off of japan’s mainlands that convinced truman to drop the atomic bombs on japan (because of the amount of people that died)
midway
battle fought in the air with aircraft carriers that destroyed 4 japanese carriers
bataan death march
japans army forced american and filipino troops to walk 65 miles to a death camp in the heat with no food or water
d-day
all the floating tanks sunk, 13,000 american bombs missed their targets, and artillery shells from battleships missed too (bc of the weather)
battle of the bulge
101st airborne and 761 tank battalion fought and broke through hitlers bulge
island hopping
skipping over stronger and more reinforced islands to take over and conquer weaker ones to get closer to the japanese mainlands (they built airfields on the conquered islands)
kamakazi
japanese suicide bombers that flew planes into us battle ships
