AP US History World War 2 Flashcards

6419688221	Neutrality Act	law that kept the US out of WW2	0
6419688222	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
6419688229	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	2
6419688230	internment camps	camps in the US designed to hold people of Japanese descent	3
6419688232	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	4
6419688233	Arsenal of Democracy	weapons that were used to fight the Fascists; US gave weapons to democratic nations and Russia	5
6419688244	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	6
6419688245	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	7
6419688246	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	8
6419688247	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	9