WW2 AP GLOBAL Flashcards
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| 146669129 | Lend-Lease, | Allows America to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense of the U.S." | 0 | |
| 146669130 | Pearl Harbor, | United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. | 1 | |
| 146669131 | Vichy Government, | name of the French government that was set up after the armistice with Germany | 2 | |
| 146669132 | embargo, | a government order imposing a trade barrier | 3 | |
| 146669133 | Tojo Hideki, | Japanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; dictator of Japan in WWII, tried and executed as war criminal | 4 | |
| 146669134 | "Asia for Asians", | Japenese Nationalists believed Japan had a semidevine mission to enighten and protect Asia. | 5 | |
| 146669135 | Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, | Take over all of the natural resource hubs in asia and create a giant imperial power on the pacific rim | 6 | |
| 146669136 | "Liberty Ships", | Ships built using mass production methods that carried goods and troops during WWII. | 7 | |
| 146669137 | kamikaze, | a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II | 8 | |
| 146669138 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | nuclear attacks during World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States of America at the order of U.S. President Harry S. Truman | 9 | |
| 146669139 | D-Day, | june 6,1944; under dwight d. eisenhower allied forces landed on the beach and was greatest naval invasion. | 10 |