WW2 Test Review

Dwight D. Eisenhower

American General Commander of Allied forces in Europe.

Douglas MacArthur

American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II.

Adolph Hitler

german leader of Nazi Party. 1933-1945. rose to power by promoting racist and national views

Robert Oppenheimer

leader of Manhattan project

Neville Chamberlain

1938; gullible British Prime Minister; declared that Britain and France would fight if Hitler attacked Poland.

Winston Churchill

A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West.

Joseph Stalin

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

Ben Davis

First African American general in the US Air Force; his father had been the first Black general in the army

Pearl Harbor Attack

Dec 7 1941; Japanese attack American naval base and airforces in Oahu; US declares war on japan, Italy and Germany declare war on US

D-Day Invasion(Normandy)

June 6,1943 Eisenhower brought Allies to Normandybroke up Gr defense line

V.E. Day

May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered

Years America was involved in the war

December 7, 1941 to September 2, 1945

WWII( European Countries)

6 years, 1939 to 1945

1st atomic bomb dropped in Japan

August 6, 1945

V.J. Day

August 15, 1945 - the Victory in Japan Day when the Japanese surrendered

start of WWII

September 1, 1939

Manhattan Project

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.

isolationism

avoidance of involvement in the affairs of other nations

Nagaski

August 9, 1945, a 2nd atomic bomb was dropped on this city in Japan three days after the first one, killing over 40,000 people. This caused Emperor Hirohito to force the Japanese government to surrender on August 10, 1945.

Hiroshima

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II.

Hyperinflation

A very rapid rise in the price level; an extremely high rate of inflation.

internment

Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group

Propaganda

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

lend-lease pact

a law passed in 1941 that allowed the United States to ship arms and other supplies, without immediate payment, to nations fighting the Axis powers

Totarialism

a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens

Fascism

A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition

rhineland

Region between Germany and France demilitarized by Treaty of Versailles; Hitler occupied and fortified the region

fasces

bundle of rods bound around an ax symbolizing authority

sudetenland

Land that Germany thought was rightfully theirs due to the large German speaking population

land the Hitler wanted

Anschluss

The union of Austria with Germany, resulting from the occupation of Austria by the German army in 1938.

Leibensraum

The Nazis supported territorial expansionism to gain Lebensraum ("living space") as being a law of nature for all healthy and vigorous peoples of superior races to displace people of inferior races. Reason for invading Austria.

Kristallnacht

(Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews.

volk

"german folk"-- a mass nationalism movement which required the submersion of germany into past internal tribal beliefs of folk

eugenics

the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics

atomic bomb

a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)

blitzkrieg

"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939

appeasement

A policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of avoiding war. Associated with Neville Chamberlain's policy of making concessions to Adolf Hitler.

Nuremberg

A group of laws that robbed German Jews of their citizenship in 1935

what prevented the Germans from another major victory.

D-Day forced Germany into a two-front war

largest battles of ww2

Battle of the bulge

Kursk

Germany after the war

divided into East and West Germany

Partitioning

To divide (as a country) into two or more territorial units having separate political status