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General Eisenhower,  | Commanded Normandy Invasion |
Pearl Harbor,  | Japanese attacked the US Navy here Dec. 7th, 1941 |
Franklin Roosevelt,  | said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." |
Stock Market Crash,  | caused by overspeculation and easy credit |
Midway,  | American victory here saved Hawaii from Japanese attack |
El Alamein,  | British victory in Egypt saved the Suez Canal |
Stalingrad,  | Russian victory over the Germans was the turning point of the war |
Battle of Britain,  | British were able to defeat the German air force |
War Bonds,  | In addition to income taxes, used to finance the war effort |
Nisei Regiment,  | All Japanese American infantry unit that won many decorations for bravery |
Tuskegee Airman,  | All African-American air that served in Europe with distinction |
Censorship,  | government polict to control information during WWII |
FDIC,  | Program that insured bank deposits |
Works Progress ADM,  | Program that gave Americans jobs |
the New Deal,  | FDR's program to make the federal govt. more active in solving problems |
The Scopes Trial,  | Legal battle over evolution in schools |
Flappers,  | 1920s New style of women that challenged traditional female roles in society |
Radio,  | New source of news and entertainment |
Agricultural Adj. Act,  | a program to cure farm problems over time |
Rationing,  | An effort by the US government to conserve resources during WWII |
Internment camps,  | Where West Coast Japanese Americans were forced to go |
Final Solution,  | Decision of Hitler to exterminate Jews, slavs and other groups |
Nuremberg,  | Where German leaders were tried for war crimes |
Geneva Convention,  | rules outlining the humane treatment of prisoners |
Bataan Death March,  | thousands of US & Filipino prisoners were killed by the Japanese army |
Hiroshima/Nagasaki,  | US dropped A-Bombs on these cities |
Iwo Jima & Okinawa,  | island battle victories brought the US close enought to attack Japan directly |
Island Hopping,  | strategy of the US to take key islands leading to Japan |
draft,  | in addition to volunteers, method to increase manpower for the US army |
Federal Reserve,  | failed to prevent the collapse of the US banking system leading to smaller money supply |
Smoot Hawley,  | Raised tariffs that restricted international trade |
Hooverville,  | name for homeless village |
social security,  | safeguards workers by providing for a national retirement fund |
prohibition,  | banned the sale of alchohol in the USA leading to smuggling & speakeasies |
Poland,  | country invaded by Germany starting WWII |
Lend Lease,  | Program to provide supplies to nations fighting Germany & Japan |
code talkers,  | units that used the Navajo language to confuse the Japanese |
Hitler First,  | strategy of the Allies to focus their resources on Germany during WWII |
China and Manchuria,  | These areas were invaded and brutalzed by Japan before WWII began |
Normandy France,  | Where the Allies landed in 1944 to liberate Western Europe |
President Truman,  | decided to use the A-Bomb on Japan rather than face high casaulties of invasion |
Israel,  | result of calls for a Jewish Homeland after WWII |
Movies,  | provided an escape from Depression era realities |
Newspapers & magazines,  | Shaped cultural norms & sparked trends |
Ku Klux Klan,  | Opposed open immigration and alcohol leading to a growth in membership |
Retooling,  | the process of changing a business from peacetime to wartime production |
Korematsu v. US,  | the Supreme Court upheld the removal of Japanese Americans from West Coast |
Entertainers,  | Promoted patriotism during WWII by making movies & plays supporting the war effort |
Genocide,  | The systematic and puposeful destruction of a racial, cultural, religious group |
France,  | Allied nation overrun by the Germans just before the Battle of Britain |
Great Depression,  | Period of high unemployment; homelessness; bank failures; low demand for goods; migration |
German Strategy,  | Defeat Soviets quickly and occupy their oil fields; defeat British by bombing and submarines |
Japanese strategy,  | after invading Indonesia & Philippines, planned to invade Australia and Hawaii |
