AP US History 18 Flashcards

6384611178	Bataan peninsula. Wainwright	MacArthur ordered by FDR to evacuate to Australia. General surrendered	0
6384611179	Battle of coral sea	Australia is saved from Japanese attack	1
6384611180	Battle of midway	Chester Nimitz intercepted Japanese invasion force heading to midway	2
6384611181	USS Enterprise	4 carriers sunk and Japan no longer on the offensive. US begins slowly taking islands toward Japan	3
6384611182	Tara Wa	Japanese resistance	4
6384611183	Guadal Canal	Retaken after 6 months of fighting, island hopping	5
6384611184	Battle of Leyte gulf	US destroys Japanese fleet	6
6384611185	Iwo Jima	US MC attacked. US loses 8,000 troops Japan 21,000 defenders	7
6384611186	Gyokusai	Suicide land attacks	8
6384611187	The manhatten project	Atomic bomb	9
6384611188	Enola Gay	William Tibbets dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima	10
6384611189	Nagasaki	2nd bomb dropped in April	11
6384611190	Dwight D Eisenhower	Appointed supreme allied commander in Europe	12
6384611191	Operation torch	Landing in North Africa	13
6384611192	Stalingrad	Von Paulus bogged down outside Stalingrad and soviets push Germany out	14
6384611193	Operation overload-D-Day	Normandy invasion, US establishes a beachhead in France and advance toward Paris	15
6384611194	Charles de gaulle	Free French forces commander	16
6384611195	Casa Blanca conference	FDR mistreats de Gaulle	17
6384611196	Warsaw	Soviet forces liberate it and stalin allowed polish to be murdered by nazis	18
6384611197	Bastogne	Defended by MacAuliffe, battle of the bulge ends	19
6384611198	Battle of the bulge	Us forces outnumbered and stunned. Germans would take Antwerp and split allied forces	20
6384611199	Yalta conference	German zones of allied occupation established	21
6384611200	Valkyrie plan	Plot to kill hitler by Klaus Von Stauffenburg	22
6384611201	Alfred Jodi	Surrenders to Eisenhower in France	23