6419688221 | Neutrality Act | law that kept the US out of WW2 | 0 | |
6419688222 | 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 | |
6419688229 | 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 | 2 | |
6419688230 | internment camps | camps in the US designed to hold people of Japanese descent | 3 | |
6419688232 | 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 | 4 | |
6419688233 | Arsenal of Democracy | weapons that were used to fight the Fascists; US gave weapons to democratic nations and Russia | 5 | |
6419688244 | 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 | 6 | |
6419688245 | 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 | 7 | |
6419688246 | 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 | 8 | |
6419688247 | 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 | 9 |
AP US History World War 2 Flashcards
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