AP US American History - Chapter 25 Flashcards

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