U7: WWII

hiram Revels

first black person in congress

failure of treaty of versailles

national boundaries led to civil wars, depression led to poverty, nationalism- the idea of loyalty to one’s country over all else. disdain towards others

first animated movie with sound

steamboat willy

red scare

communism

adolf hilter

nazi germany

joseph stallin

USSR

Benito Mussoluini

italy

Hideki Toji

Japan

Fransisco Franco

Spain

Facism

practiced by itality, stressed nationalism and the state over the interests of the individual person. focused on military expansion

strong leader, strong ruling class, little say from citizens

Nazism

Germany, extreme nationalism and racism, focused on military expansion, warped belief that uniting all german people would create a new german empire

communism

soviet union, state ownership of property, stallin eliminated all critics of his power (13 million) many more died of starvation

military control in Japan

Looking to gain more land, industrialize, and provide more resources for their modernizing country. They started attacking china and left the league of nation with no repercussions.

Isolationism

Us, removal of a nation from global events out of fear that they would be thrown into international conflicts

Pearl Harbor

Japanese planes attack, destroying 21 ships and killing 2,402 americans

Women’s auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)

Allows for women volunteers to serve in non-combat roles

Women would become nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, electricians, and pilots. 

natives in the war

the navaho language was used for speaking code in the army

Office of price administration (OPA)

Fought inflation on goods by freezing prices (not changing prices on goods)

Raised income taxes and applied it to other people

The tax raise gave the consumer less to spend which, in turn led to less demand. 

War production board (WPB)

oversaw the collection of scrap, iron, cans, paper, rags, cooking fat, etc.

executive order 9066

FDR created this order forcing japanese people to go to internment camps

interment camps

along west coast, 120,000 japanese. Japanese-americans in hawaii weren’t placed in camps because 1/3 of the hawaiins were japanese

rationing

meat, shoes, coffee, sugar, and gas

rosie the riveter

6 million women came out to work in these factories

Despite the need for women to step up, they were still only paid 60% of what men made

D-Day

allied invasion of europe (june 6, 1944) invasion of the beach centered around normandy, france. over 400 allied died.

who took berlin

soviets took germany’s capitol berlin first and hilter committed suicide in the final days of the war

J. Robert Oppenheimer

lead researcher for the manhattan project

the manhattan project

project to make an atomic bomb

albert einstein

send letter to FDR about bomb because he wouldn’t listen to Oppenheimer

 harry truman and the bomb

he dropped the bomb in japan because it was either invade japan or use the atomic bomb so he had to test it. the bomb was titled little boy. the second bomb was titled fat man.

hiroshima

atomic bomb little boy was dropped and killed 70,000-135,000

Nagasaki

fat man bomb was dropped killing another 60,000-80,000 and also causing the surrender

Lend/Lease act

allowed president to provide military aid to any nation deemed vital to the defense of the US