AP US History World War 2 Flashcards

6363494645	Neutrality Act	law that kept the US out of WW2	0
6363494646	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
6363494647	Fascism	form of government that glorifies the state over the individual; demands a strong central government	2
6363494648	Adolf Hitler	fascist chancellor of Germany; started the rise of the Nazi Party; broke the Versailles Treaty and pretty much started WW2	3
6363494649	German Soviet Non-Aggression Pact	deal between Russia and Germany that split Poland in half; Germany takes west and Russia takes east	4
6363494650	blitzkrieg	"lightning war"; tactic to go in with as much force as you can (airforce and tanks)	5
6363494651	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	6
6363494652	Pearl Harbor	Japan's bombing of the US Pacific Ocean naval base; hit us hardcore; December 7th, 1941	7
6363494653	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	8
6363494654	internment camps	camps in the US designed to hold people of Japanese descent	9
6363494655	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	10
6363494656	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	11
6363494657	Arsenal of Democracy	weapons that were used to fight the Fascists; US gave weapons to democratic nations and Russia	12
6363494658	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	13
6363494659	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	14
6363494662	Douglas MacArthur	US commander of the Pacific; "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction" (what a lame coverup)	15
6363494663	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	16
6363494664	Island hopping	the US tactic of taking over little islands bit by bit to get close enough to bomb Japan	17
6363494665	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	18
6363494666	Kamikaze	Japanese suicide bombers; they added extra explosives, extra gas, and carried a short sword to take their life	19
6363494667	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	20
6363494668	Battle of Okinawa	largest amphibious assault in the Pacific; more people were killed than Hiroshima and Nagasaki and most casualties were civilians	21
6363494669	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	22
6363494670	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	23
6363494671	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	24
6363494672	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	25
6363494673	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	26