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| 6211830887 | Neutrality Act | law that kept the US out of WW2 | 0 | |
| 6211830888 | Lend Lease Act | law that said the US can give or sell arms to other nations for the protection of the US from those countries | 1 | |
| 6211830889 | America 1st Committee | group that favored US neutrality or isolationism | 2 | |
| 6211830890 | Fascism | form of government that glorifies the state over the individual; demands a strong central government | 3 | |
| 6211830891 | Totalitarian State | a government that controls all aspects of the people | 4 | |
| 6211830892 | Inflation | the rate of increase in costs | 5 | |
| 6211830893 | Adolf Hitler | fascist chancellor of Germany; started the rise of the Nazi Party; broke the Versailles Treaty and pretty much started WW2 | 6 | |
| 6211830894 | NAZI | Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party; party those rose to power in Germany; led by Adolf Hitler | 7 | |
| 6211830895 | Gestapo | Hitler's personal army; would eventually become the SS | 8 | |
| 6211830896 | Reichstag | the government building (kind of like the White House and Capitol Building combined) that Hitler attacked and got arrested | 9 | |
| 6211830897 | Mein Kampf | Hitler's book that is titled "My Struggle"; details his beliefs and what he would do when he gets to power; illustrates his hatred of the Jews, German imperialism; every German family had a copy but never read it | 10 | |
| 6211830898 | Enabling Act | law that gave Hitler ultimate power to disregard any and every law in order to fix the economy; his approval rate increased due to his success in boosting the economy | 11 | |
| 6211830899 | Nuremburg Laws | laws that banned Jews from German citizenship; targets were identified (Jews had to wear the yellow Star of David) | 12 | |
| 6211830900 | appeasement | a compromise where 1 side gets something | 13 | |
| 6211830901 | German Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | deal between Russia and Germany that split Poland in half; Germany takes west and Russia takes east | 14 | |
| 6211830902 | blitzkrieg | "lightning war"; tactic to go in with as much force as you can (airforce and tanks) | 15 | |
| 6211830903 | Maginot Line | series of defenses France put up along the border of Germany; consisted of trenches and bunkers; 60% of France became occupied in less than 1 month | 16 | |
| 6211830904 | Puppet Government | a government that is controlled by an outside force | 17 | |
| 6211830905 | Rape of Nanking | the capital of China was invaded by the Japanese; over 50% of the people that lived there were killed either by torture, killing competitions, or rape | 18 | |
| 6211830906 | Blockade of Japan | impact of the rape of Nanking; the US decided to impose this as well as an embargo to ensure that Japan never hit anyone else like that ever again | 19 | |
| 6211830907 | USS Arizona | only ship in Pearl Harbor that was not able to be salvaged and repaired; 1,177 men died in this explosion; sunk in 9 minutes; bomb hit engine and artillery room | 20 | |
| 6211830908 | Doolittle's Raid | 1st US raid on Tokyo; showed the US that we were going to come back from Pearl Harbor and fight | 21 | |
| 6211830909 | Pearl Harbor | Japan's bombing of the US Pacific Ocean naval base; hit us hardcore; December 7th, 1941 | 22 | |
| 6211830910 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) | program that paid factories to change to produce war products | 23 | |
| 6211830911 | Cost Plus Program | program that paid for materials and the finished product that companies made for the war effort | 24 | |
| 6211830912 | Ration Cards | these limited what a person could buy; this ensured that there were enough resources for the war | 25 | |
| 6211830913 | scrap drive | people would donate their scraps of metal for the war effort | 26 | |
| 6211830914 | victory gardens | gardens that people would grow because of the ration cards; if there was a surplus of food, they would donate the extra to the war effort | 27 | |
| 6211830915 | GI Bill | this paid vets to go to college and would provide housing | 28 | |
| 6211830916 | Navajo "Code Talkers" | these people would talk in the Navajo language since it was not a written language; this was useful as the Axis Powers could not translate the code | 29 | |
| 6211830917 | Tuskegee Air Men | group of all black fighter pilots; their job was to protect big bombers; flew over 200 missions and never lost a bomber; Eleanor Roosevelt convinced her husband to put them into combat | 30 | |
| 6211830918 | 442nd Regiment | combat team that was made up of Asians that volunteered for the military to show their loyalty to America; most decorated combat team in US history; fought in Italy and France | 31 | |
| 6211830919 | Executive Order 9066 | order given by FDR that made all Japanese people live in internment camps | 32 | |
| 6211830920 | internment camps | camps in the US designed to hold people of Japanese descent | 33 | |
| 6211830921 | D-Day | battle on the beaches of Normandy; June 6th, 1944; largest amphibious invasion in the history of the world; also known as Operation Overlord | 34 | |
| 6211830922 | General Eisenhower | man who planned the D-Day invsion; hand delivered several thousand letters that he personally addressed that explained to the soldiers exactly their jobs for the invasion | 35 | |
| 6211830923 | Atlantic Sea Wall | Germany's defense wall on the French coast; 4 million land mines | 36 | |
| 6211830924 | 101st airborne | group of paratroopers that were elite; their job was to take out the German machine guns and tanks behind enemy lines | 37 | |
| 6211830925 | Arsenal of Democracy | weapons that were used to fight the Fascists; US gave weapons to democratic nations and Russia | 38 | |
| 6211830926 | Destroyer Deal | the deal in which the US gave 50 destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for 8 UK bases | 39 | |
| 6211830927 | Tehran Conference | meeting between Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt; the Big 3 agreed to focus on Germany and then Japan; 1st meeting of the Big 3 | 40 | |
| 6211830928 | Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last offensive battle; over 10,000 US troops surrendered; Patton drove over 102 miles in 2 days to help support Allied lines; Russia eventually came in and helped | 41 | |
| 6211830929 | Yalta Conference | 2nd conference of the Big 3; they decided what to do with Germany after the war; Churchill and FDR wanted to work with Germany; Stalin=burn/crush Germany; Stalin demanded a buffer between Germany and Russia, aka Poland | 42 | |
| 6211830930 | Pottsdam Conference | last conference of the Big 3; Prime Minister Clement, President Truman, and Stalin; debated about what to do with Germany; Truman told Stalin about the nuclear bomb | 43 | |
| 6211830931 | VE Day | May 8th, 1945; Victory in Europe Day; millions of Jews move to Israel and make it a country | 44 | |
| 6211830932 | Nuremberg Trials | event where the Nazis (mostly concentration camp workers) were put on trial for crimes against humanity; these went on for over a year; several Nazis were executed, some committed suicide, and some escaped to Argentina | 45 | |
| 6211830933 | Tojo | commander of all Japanese forces; tried to kill himself with an American gun and lived because an American medic saved him; later put on trial and executed; responsible for demanding the Pearl Harbor attack | 46 | |
| 6211830934 | Douglas MacArthur | US commander of the Pacific; "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction" (what a lame coverup) | 47 | |
| 6211830935 | Bataan Death March | event in which the Japanese marched US POWs to labor camps; they marched over 60 miles in the blazing Filipino summer; there were 80,000 soldiers that were captured | 48 | |
| 6211830936 | Island hopping | the US tactic of taking over little islands bit by bit to get close enough to bomb Japan | 49 | |
| 6211830937 | Battle of Midway | battle that was 100% naval; midway between the US and Asia; 6 months after Pearl Harbor; turning point of the war in the Pacific; US cracked the Japanese radio code; US found out about the attack on midway and sneak attacked with aircraft carriers; result was that the Japanese fleet was no longer a threat in the war | 50 | |
| 6211830938 | Kamikaze | Japanese suicide bombers; they added extra explosives, extra gas, and carried a short sword to take their life | 51 | |
| 6211830939 | Bonzai Charge | famous attack in which the soldiers attached bayonets and charged the enemy while yelling "Long live the Emporer!" in Japanese | 52 | |
| 6211830940 | Iwo Jima | battle that took place on a volcanic island; Japanese hid and traveled through cave and tunnel networks; this was where the famous Flag Raising photograph was taken | 53 | |
| 6211830941 | Marines | main US force in the Pacific; only branch that has been in every major conflict | 54 | |
| 6211830942 | Battle of Okinawa | largest amphibious assault in the Pacific; more people were killed than Hiroshima and Nagasaki and most casualties were civilians | 55 | |
| 6211830943 | Harry S Truman | 33rd President of the US; succeeded FDR when he died; known for being a Moderate Democrat | 56 | |
| 6211830944 | Fire bombing | tactic that is essentially napalm; US did this to Japan and ended up destroying 50% of the country; we only lost about 240 airmen in the attacks | 57 | |
| 6211830945 | Manhattan Project | this event's objective was to create the atomic bomb; had to split an atom in a controlled manner; Einstein came to the US and helped; thousands of scientists came to help; cost $2 billion to make 1 bomb; located in Los Alamos, New Mexico | 58 | |
| 6211830946 | Major General Groves | military leader of the Manhattan project; created and designed the Pentagon; organzied and ensured efficiency in the project | 59 | |
| 6211830947 | Dr. Oppenheimer | scientific leader of the Manhattan project; became obsessed with his work and could not handle stress very well; devastated at the results of dropping the bombs; "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" | 60 | |
| 6211830948 | Tinian Island | the island the bombers took off of to bomb Japan | 61 | |
| 6211830949 | Little Boy | the uranium bomb; 1st bomb of its kind to be used in combat; dropped on Hiroshima | 62 | |
| 6211830950 | Paul Tibbets | man who flew the plane that dropped Little Boy; named his plane, the Enola Gay, after his mother | 63 | |
| 6211830951 | Hiroshima | August 6th, 1945; Little Boy was dropped and killed 70,000 immediately and then twice that much by radiation and cancer; was targeted because of its poor defense and high population | 64 | |
| 6211830952 | Fat Man | the plutonium bomb; surrounded by smaller and slower explosives; the US only had enough plutonium to make 1 bomb; we didn't know if it would work or not but decided to go with it anyways; this bomb was two times stronger than the uranium bomb but killed half as many | 65 | |
| 6211830953 | Nagasaki | place where Fat Man was dropped; US dropped warning pamphlets 3 days before dropping the bomb; 40,000 people were killed; most of the shock was absorbed in the hills and mountains; this place has a higher radiation poisoning | 66 | |
| 6211830954 | VJ Day | September 2nd, 1945; the Japanese surrender and marked the end of the war; japan has never had a military since; the unofficial surrender was 6 days after Nagasaki | 67 | |
| 6211830955 | Japanese War Crime Trials | event where many Japanese leaders were put on trial; General Tojo was put on trials; many were tried for the Rape of Nanking as well as bio chemical experiments | 68 | |
| 6211830956 | Bio-chemical experiments | what the Japanese performed on POWs; purpose was to develop more harmful weapons using nature | 69 | |
| 6211830957 | German Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | the agreement between Germany and Russia to split Poland | 70 | |
| 6211830958 | V V | victory in Europe, victory at home; black civil rights movement during the war. The Double V campaign bolstered the spirits of black soldiers and strengthened African American commitments to fighting for equal rights. | 71 | |
| 6211830959 | Spheres Of Influence | When a country has a geographical influence, like America to Southern American countries | 72 | |
| 6211830960 | Bloc | a group of nations with similar interests, like the European countries under the influence of communism from Stalin. | 73 |
