History Chapter 37
Death Camp
Killed by lethal injection and poisonous gas
Bulge
(December 16, 1944-January 16, 1945), also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the largest battle fought on the Western Front in Europe during World War II; it is also the largest battle ever fought by the United States Army.
UN Security Council
15 member states
UN Permanent Members
5
Coral Sea
92 aircraft destroyed/ fought during 4-8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia.
Most famous death camp
Auschwitz
Montgomery
Britain
Allies countries
Britain US China and Soviet Union
UN creation
End of ww2
Hitler
Germany
Rommel
Germany
Axis countries
Germany Japan and Italy
Italy
In the final push to defeat the Axis powers of Italy and Germany during World War II (1939-45), the U.S. and Great Britain, the leading Allied powers, planned to invade Italy/ was a series of Allied beach landings and land battles from Sicily and southern Italy up the Italian mainland toward Nazi Germany
Why did Americans fear the coming peace?
Isolationism and another Great Depression
What were the united nations?
Maintains international peace and security
Stalin
Russia
Atomic Bombs
On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure
Iwo Jima/ Okinawa
Search Results The Battle of Iwo Jima was fought between the Japanese army and the United States Marine Corps (USMC). The battle, known to the USMC as "Operation Detachment", started on February 19, 1945 and lasted until March 26, 1945 when the last Japanese soldiers were captured or killed
D-Day
The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
FDR
US
MacArthur
US
Patton
US
V-E and V-J Day
VE and VJ Days 1945. Tuesday 8 May 1945 was V.E. Day, celebrating 'Victory in Europe' and the beginning of the end of the Second World War. Nazi Germany was defeated, having surrendering unconditionally to Britain and the Allies.
American GI Jobs
Very limited after being filled w/ women
UN General Assembly
all member states
Leapfrogging
also known as island hopping, was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II.
Doolittle's Raid
also known as the Tokyo raid, was the first US attack on the Japanese homeland on April 18, 1942, four months after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
GI Bill
established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available and granted stipends covering tuition and expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools
Midway
fought in World War II, took place on June 5, 1942 (June 4-June 7 in US time zones). The United States Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, marking a turning point in the war in the Pacific theatre.
Pearl Harbor
happened on December 7th, 1941. Japanese airplanes made a surprise attack on the US Navy and They destroyed many ships and killed many soldiers. It was this attack that forced the United States to enter World War II.
Stalingrad
the successful Soviet defense/ last german offensive/ stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies/ one of the bloodiest battles in history, with combined military and civilian casualties of nearly 2 million
