APUSH: U10 Pt#1 Terms

General Dwight D Eisenhower

General Dwight D Eisenhower

Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces that is mainly responsible for the strategic planning of the D-Day invasion and the retaking of France by the Allied Forces.

General Douglas MacArthur

Commander of the United States Navy who led frequent assaults in the Pacific against Japan.

• He was stationed in the Philippines and Australia to start pushing back the Japanese offensive attacks.

Admiral Chester Nimitz

Commander of the Pacific Fleet that led naval troops from Hawaii in order to help push back the Japanese Armada from taking more islands in the South pacific.

General George S Patton

United States General that was the head of the North Africa campaign.

• He was mostly responsible for having the United States troops drive out all Germans and Italians from North Africa

The Holocaust

The German attempt to eradicate all Jewish, Polish, Gypsy, disabled, homosexual, or communistic people within Europe.

• Concentration camps were set up to kill mass quantities of people fitting these descriptions.

• More than 10 million lives would be taken solely based upon this event.

Anti-Semitism

Discrimination or hostility towards Jewish people; Hitler and the Nazi party had this belief as well as certain officials within the Allies like Assistant Secretary Breckenridge Long who denied Jewish sanction in America because of his discrimination towards Jews.

Office of Price Administration

An agency developed to help regulate the Anti-inflation Act which would enable the government to freeze prices of agricultural products, wages of employees, salaries, and rents throughout the country in order to help stop inflation.

War Production Board

A government agency that decided which companies would make war materials and how to distribute raw materials.

• It was very unsuccessful in negotiating deals with corporations along with the American military and eventually became part of the Office of War Mobilization.

Fair Employment Practices Commission

A committee created by President Roosevelt that tried to find and eliminate race discrimination in war industries.

• This helped African Americans become better incorporated into American industry.

Code-Talkers

Native American men that served during World War II for the Americans that would work in communications so that Axis Forces could not be able to understand the messages if they intercepted them.

Zoot-Suit Riots

White American sailors started to invade Mexican American communities, hunt down Mexican teenage gang members, and severely beat them.

• Law enforcement did not try to stop this from happening and the second a Mexican American was found fighting back, they were arrested.

Rosie the Riveter

A symbol of the new importance of the women industrial force during World War II.

• This fictional woman encouraged other women to work in previously thought to be male jobs, to enter the war, and to join unions. "We Can Do It"

Japanese Internment

With the creation of the War Relocation Authority, most Japanese Americans were forced to abandon their possessions and move to relocation centers that closely resembled prisons.

D-Day

The Allied invasion of German controlled France by American commander Dwight D Eisenhower.

• This invasion is responsible for the Allies retaking France from the Axis Powers.

Battle of the Bulge

The last major battle conducted by Germans in World War II.

• Germans tried pushing back Allied Forces from the Rhine River back towards France and successfully did for months.

• However the Germans never broke the Allied lines and eventually were defeated.

V-E Day

The day that Germany finally surrendered to the Allied Forces which ended war within Europe.

• This day made the rest of the Allied Forces battles to lie in the Pacific against the Japanese Empire.

Manhattan Project

A secret United States project created in hopes to make the first functioning atomic bomb.

• Research and scientists from all around the world were being used to develop this new technology which the Americans did successfully accomplish before the Germans.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

President Truman and other American political figures decided it was best to end the war with Japan very quickly and cost effectively (meaning the cost of American lives).

• Two atomic bombs were dropped on industrial centers within Japan two days apart from each other.

• The Japanese finally surrendered to the United States after the second atomic bomb was dropped.