World War 2 Vocabulary Flashcards

4732179911	Adolf HItler	dictator of Germany during world war 2	0
4732179912	Benito Mussolini	dictator of Italy during world war 2	1
4732179913	Winston Churchill	prime minister of Great Britain during world war 2	2
4732179914	Joseph Stalin	dictator of the soviet union during world war 2	3
4732179915	Munich Pact	agreement in which Britain and France tried to appease Hitler by giving him the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia, in order to avoid war	4
4732179916	Non-Aggression Pact	Agreement between Germany and the USSR not to fight each other. They also agreed to divide Poland	5
4732179917	Blitzkrieg	a new type of warfare, lightning war, used by the Germans	6
4732179918	Battle of Britain	The German air force launched an all-out air battle to destroy the British Royal Air Force	7
4732179919	Neutrality Acts	in 1939, warring nations could buy weapons if they paid cash and carried them on their own ships	8
4732179920	Lend-lease Act	The United States would send weapons to countries important to their defense if they promised to return or pay rent for them after the war	9
4732179921	Pearl Harbor	surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 that resulted in the United States' entry into world war 2	10
4732179922	Japanese Interment	in 1942 the U.S. Government removed more than 100,000 people of Japanese birth and ancestry from their homes on the pacific coast to relocation centers	11
4732179923	Korematsu v. United States	the Supreme Court ruled that the relocation of Japanese Americans was constitutional because it was based on military urgency not race	12
4732179924	"Rosie the Riveter"	the symbol of the campaign to hire women to work in the factories during world war 2	13
4732179925	WACS	The Women's Army Corps allowed women to serve in non-combat units.	14
4732179926	Casablanca	A 1943 meeting in Morocco at which Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to step up the bombing of Germany and to invade the island of Sicily	15
4732179927	Stalingrad	this 1942 battle, won by the soviets, was a major turning point of the war and put the Germans on the Defensive	16
4732179928	D-Day (Operation Overlord)	The Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944	17
4732179929	Battle of the Bulge	Hitler's last attempt to keep Allied forces from entering Germany by racing west into Belgium to cut off supplies	18
4732179930	George Patton	Nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts" he was the foremost tank specialist of world war 2	19
4732179931	V-E Day	"Victory in Europe" was proclaimed on may 8, 1945 following the German Surrender	20
4732179932	Holocaust	The Nazi campaign to exterminate the Jews during world war 2	21
4732179933	Midway	the 1942 battle that was the turning point of the war in the pacific. With the loss of four air craft carriers, the Japanese advanced across the pacific was stopped	22
4732179934	Island Hopping	strategy used in the pacific to acquire bases from which supplies and troops could be moved closer to Japan	23
4732179935	Chester Nimitz	The commander of the United States Navy in the pacific	24
4732179936	Douglas MacArthur	The commander of the American Forces defending the Philippines	25
4732179937	Iwo Jima	captured by U.S. Marines in February, 1945, this island, closer to Japan, be used for B-29s to refuel	26
4732179938	Okinawa	to prepare for invasion, this island, only 350 miles from Japan, was captured by the U.S. in April, 1945	27
4732179939	Manhattan Project	Code-name for the American program, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, to build an atomic bomb	28
4732179940	V-J Day	"Victory over Japan" was proclaimed on August 15, 1945 following the Japanese surrender. the official surrender took place on board the U.S.S. Missouri on September 2, 1945	29
4732179941	Nuremberg Trials	German Leaders suspected of committing war crimes were placed on trial in Nuremberg, Germany	30
4732179942	Potsdam	Meeting near Berlin in July, 1945 between Stalin, Truman, and the British Leaders to discuss the economic future of Germany. Japan had also been told at this time to surrender or be destroyed.	31