WWII Unit Test

Bank Runs

When a large group of people simultaneously withdraw their deposits

Black Tuesday

Stock market lost 14 billion in one day

Okies

Migrants for Oklahoma to California

Migrant

A person who moves from one place to another either in their own country

Hoovervilles

Makeshift towns during the great depression

Urban impact of Great Depression

unemployment

Rural impact of Great Depression

Agriculture prices collapsing

1932 Election

FDR was elected to president

The 3 R's

Relief

Rugged Individualism

When President Hoover decided that you should provide for yourself

New Deal

A series of programs and policies put in place to address the severe eco challenges facing the U.S.; 53 programs

CCC

A federal work relief program under the new deal

WPA

A federal employment and infrastructure program

Trickle-Down Economics

Does not directly support the poor

Keynesian Economics

Federal government needs to create jobs for lower class

Treaty of Versailles

happened in 1919; officially ended the war with Germany and the allies in WWI

Fascism

Puts nationality and race above the individual

Scapegoating

Picking a person or group of people to blame that is not at fault

Nazis

Far-right

Night of the Long Knives

When Hitler as chancellor killed all political rivals

Munich Agreement

When Britain and France allowed Hitler to annex Sudetenland

Atlantic Charter

When FDR and Winston Churchill laid out goals for the future

Isolationism

When a country stays out of other countries affairs

Neutrality Acts

A series of laws between 1935-1939 when to keep the U.S. out of foreign conflicts

Cash & Carry

Allowed the U.S. to trade with countries in war as long as they paid in cash and used their own ships

Lend-Lease

Allowing the U.S. to supply weapons

Axis Powers

The opposing side to the allies (Germany

Allied Powers

The opposing side to the to the axis (U.S.

Lebensraum

Concept of justified expansion (Living space)

Blitzkrieg

A military strategy that uses surprise and speed to break through enemy lines

Norden Bombsight

A secret

Tuskegee Airmen

First African-American aviator in the U.S. military

Double V Campaign

Victory abroad (war)

Japanese Internment

U.S. forced Japanese into internment camps in the West to contain them

The Home Front

The mobilization of the economy to support military efforts overseas

B-17/B-29 Bombers

Used for strategic daylight bombing on Germany

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Joining most of Asia together to be lead by Japan

Final Solution

Hitler's antisemitic goal (kill all jews)

"Fat-Man"/"Little-Boy" (Hiroshima was hit by "little boy" and Nagasaki was hit by "Fat Man"

The Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

USS Arizona

It was a navy battleship that was stationed in pearl harbor and there is a memorial of it

Island Hopping

The U.S. cut off resources once they conquered an island leading to the people on the other islands starving which pushed the Japanese back

Kamikaze

When the Japanese would fly their planes into the Allies ships

Manhattan Project

The top secret project where they were building nuclear weapons; Los Alamos

Herbert Hoover

President of the U.S. before FDR

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

President after Hoover

Harry Truman

President after FDR and he was the one who launched the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Joseph Stalin

Leader of the Soviet Union

Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of Britain

Adolf Hitler

Leader of the Nazi's

Benito Mussolini

Leader of Italy

Emperor Hirohito

Figure head and supreme commander of the Japanese military

Hideki Tojo

General and Prime Minister of Japan

"Rosie the Riveter"

Symbol of women's power and was a made up character from U.S. propaganda

General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Served as a five-star general and commanded Allied forces to liberating Western Europe

Admiral Nimitz

Commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet and directing allied air

Great Depression

When the U.S. economy plummets leading to unemployment

Stock Market Crash

On "Black Tuesday"

Dust Bowl

In the rural part of the Great Depression the dust bowls happened when rapid wind would pick up dust turning into a destructive force

Pearl Harbor

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor (Honolulu)

The Blitz

A series of bombing from the Nazi's to Britain leading to Britain being the winner

Allied bombing campaign

When Britain and the U.S. air force bombed important production parts in Germany

Operation Barbarossa

It was the surprise invasion that Germany had on Russia

D-Day

When the U.S. and Britain liberated France and it was a major turning point in the war for the Allies

Battle of Iwo Jima

The battle when the U.S. takes over the island from Japan

Battle of Midway

When the Japanese were overwhelming the U.S. by constant bombing until the U.S. got reinforcements and they won

Atomic Bombs (Hiroshima/Nagasaki)

They were made in Los Alamos and it was directed by J. Robert Oppenheimer supervised by president Truman

Fall of Berlin

When the Soviet Union had one last rush to bring down Berlin

V-E Day

The unconditional victory over Germany

V-J Day

When Japan officially surrendered after the two bombs dropped

October 29th

1929

September 1st

1939

December 7th 1941

Pearl Harbor

June 4th

1942

June 6th

1944

August 6th

1945

August 9th

1945

December 7th

1941

"I have become Death. The destroyer of Worlds."

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Non agression Pact

Hitler would not invade Stalin and Stalin would let Hitler take over Europe