2493135938 | Paul Tibbets | American bomber-pilot responsible for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan | 0 | |
2493137141 | Chiang Kai-shek | Leader of the Chinese Nationalists to fight against Japan | 1 | |
2493137142 | Gerald Nye | In charge of the Nye committee which investigated why the U.S. had gone to war in 1917. Pushed neutrality agreements. | 2 | |
2493138686 | Philippe Petain | led a collaborationist government at Vichy in southern France | 3 | |
2493138687 | Hideki Tojo | Japanese leader who siezed control of the government and convinced leaders to swift destruction of American forces | 4 | |
2493140463 | Douglas MacArthur | American commander who retreated to Australia | 5 | |
2493143054 | James Doolittle | boosted American morale nad demonstrated that even Japanese imperial capital lay within reach of American might. | 6 | |
2493143055 | Erwin Rommel | German general who drove to capture the Suez Canal | 7 | |
2493144530 | George Patton | leader of American tank units who defeated the Germans in North Africa | 8 | |
2493144531 | Thomas E. Dewey | Governor of NY and tough crime fighter who was the Republican presidential nominee in 1944 | 9 | |
2493146317 | Benito Mussolini (ID) | Leader of the fascist party in Italy who hungered for an empire in Africa. | 10 | |
2493147247 | Winston Churchill (ID) | British Prime Minister who vowed that Britain would never accept humiliating surrender to Hitler. | 11 | |
2493148428 | Chester W. Nimitz (ID) | American Admiral under whose leadership, the balance of naval power in the Pacific was reversed and the Japanese were put at a disadvantage. | 12 | |
2493150135 | A. Philip Randolph (ID) | Head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters who promised that 100,000 African American marchers would descend on Washington if the president did not eliminate discrimination in defense industries. | 13 | |
2493152345 | Neutrality Act of 1937 (ID) | An act which attempted to reconcile the nation's desire for both peace and foreign trade with a "cash-and-carry" policy that required warring nations to follow certain restrictions. Helped the economy, but supplied enemies. | 14 | |
2493164848 | Committee on Fair Employment Practices (ID) | Investigated and prevented racial discrimination in employment which resulted in Randolph calling off the planned march on Washington. | 15 | |
2493166969 | Congress of Racial Equality (ID) | 16 | ||
2493169559 | Overload (ID) | 17 | ||
2493171300 | Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act | Gave the president the power to reduce tariffs on goods imported into the US from nations that agreed to lower their own tariffs on US exports | 18 | |
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2493171407 | Spanish Civil War | 20 | ||
2493173174 | Anschluss | Germany bullied Austria into accepting incorporation into the Nazi Third Reich | 21 | |
2493173175 | Munich Agreement | agreement made between Hitler and Neville Chamberlain in which Hitler agreed to make no more territorial claims in Europe | 22 | |
2493174369 | Maginot Line | A concrete fortification built after World War 1 and stretching from the Swiss border to the forested Ardennes region on the edge of Belgium | 23 | |
2493174370 | Battle of Britain | 24 | ||
2493175486 | Atlantic Charter | pledged freedom of the seas and free trade as well as the right of national self-determination(roosevelt and churchill) | 25 | |
2493176612 | Korematsu decision | upheld Executive Order 9066's blatant violation of constitutional rights as justified by "military necessity" | 26 | |
2493177884 | War Production Board | set production priorities and pushed for maximum output | 27 | |
2493177885 | Bataan Death March | Japanese victors marched the weak and malnurished survivors of Wainwright's surrender 65 miles to a concentration camp | 28 | |
2493180312 | Double V Campaign | 29 | ||
2493180336 | GI Bill of Rights | provided housing, etc. for veterans | 30 | |
2493182352 | Yalta Conference | meeting of roosevelt, churchill, and stalin at the black sea resort of yalta | 31 | |
2493183307 | Battle of Leyte Gulf | greatest naval encounter in world history | 32 | |
2493185322 | Manhattan Project | nuclear energy into a superbomb | 33 |
AP US American History - Chapter 25 Flashcards
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