American History II-Unit 6: World War II

Doolittle Raid on Tokyo

direct result of Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor; goal was to hit Japan where it hurt (tokyo)

Reasons of Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

Plan for New World Order

US Oil Embargo

US Immigration Restrictions

US Expanding its Fleet

Office of War Information

established by the government to promote patriotism and help keep Americans united behind the war effort.

Executive Order 9066

112,000 Japanese-Americans forced into camps causing loss of homes and businesses

Korematsu v. US

1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. It was not until 1988 that Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay $20,000 2 each survivor

Battle for North Africa

purpose was to have allied troops practice fighting the axis powers and take back Egypt

Battle of the Atlantic

German attempt through use of submarines to cripple England

Battle of Stalingrad

Unsuccessful German attack on the city of Stalingrad during World War II from 1942 to 1943, that was the furthest extent of German advance into the Soviet Union.

D-Day

Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944

Holocaust

the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler

Concentration Camps

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death

extermination camps

Nazi camps equipped with gassing facilities for mass murder of Jews

Auschwitz

Nazi extermination camp in Poland, the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Close to a million Jews were killed there

Genocide

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

Strategic Bombing

a military strategy used in WWII against Germany, the goal was to demoralize the troops

Anti-Semitism

Prejudice against Jews

The Final Solution

Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

Tehran Conference

First major meeting between the Big Three (United States, Britain, Russia) at which they planned the 1944 assault on France and agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation after the war