| A | B |
|---|
| Leaders: Germany, Italy, Soviet Union, U.S., Japan? | Hitler (Ger) Mussolini (Italy) Stalin (USSR) Roosevelt & Truman (US) Prime Minister Tojo (Jap) |
| appeasement | giving in to an enemy's demands in the name of peace (Eng./France appeased Hitler when he occupied territory in Europe) |
| Japanese Internment (Executive Order 9066) | Japanese-Americans forced into internment camps scattered around western U.S. states for the purpose of national security |
| Operation Overlord | D-Day....Allied invasion of Europe on France's coastline of Normandy; Led by Am. general Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Civilians at War.....?? | Warring countries resorted to bombing cities, war crimes v. civilians (Japanese in China-Nazis v. Jews,...) |
| Japanese....war tactics | Fight to the death in the name of the emperor, brutal Pacific island battles, Kamikaze pilots, War crimes: "Rape of Nanking" |
| Lend-Lease | lending arms to England prior to U.S. entry in WWII |
| Blltzkrieg | Lightening War: attacking w/o warning with planes, tanks, soldiers...Germany used v. Poland and France |
| Island Hopping | Strategy used by U.S. in Pacific securing Pacific islands from the Japanese to prepare for invasion of Japan |
| Reasons for use of atomic bomb | Save American lives, Japan would not surrender,... |
| Reasons for not using the atomic bomb | Innocent civilian deaths, Japanese already defeated,... |
| anti-Semitism | policies, views, and actions that discriminate v. Jews |
| concentration camp | forced labor camp used by the Nazis, some became extermination camps |
| Final Solution | Nazi policy for the systematic killing of Jews |
| genocide | systematic killing of racial, political, or cultural groups |
| Potsdam Conf. Jul-Aug 1945 | Meeting of Allied leaders (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) to FINALIZE post WWII plans for Europe; warning to Japan as well |
| Yalta Conf. Feb. 1945 | Meeting of Allied leaders (Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin) to PLAN the future of Post WWII Europe |
| propaganda | information (posters) used by government to promote its cause [support for WWII] and to damage an opposing cause |
| Significant European battles/sites | French defeat, Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, Stalingrad, blitzkrieg, [U.S.-British forces marching from West toward Germany / Soviets marching from the East to Germany,... |
| Significant Pacific battles/sites | Island hopping, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Coral Sea, Philippines, Bataan Death March,.... |
| American leaders: | FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, MacArthur,.... |
| Manhattan Projest | top-secret U.S. government project that developed the atomic bomb |
| rationing | limiting the distribution of food, gas, and other goods to preserve use by the military in the war effort |
| U.S. after WWII | Much stronger as a result of the War.....atomic bomb, industry, leadership,...... |
| Isolationism | a policy of staying out of world affairs. |
| How did WWII start? | Germany invasion of Poland |
| Japan attacked U.S., Why? | U.S. embargo, ceased selling fuel and scrap metal, freeze of Japanese assets in U.S.; because of Japan's aggression in China |
| Rosie the Riveter? | symbol of women in the workforce during WWII in large numbers |
| Neutrality | staying out of war, something the U.S. tried to do in both World War..... |
