LEND LEASE ACT

Lend-Lease Act

1941 law that authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security

Island Hopping

A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others

D-Day

(FDR) , June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory." More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day's end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy.

Tuskegee Airmen

332 Fighter Group famous for shooting down over 200 enemy planes. African American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee flying school.

Rosie The Riveter

A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories. It became a rallying symbol for women to do their part.

Manhattan Project

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

Axis Powers

Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.

ALLIED POWERS

Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.

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.

Bataan Death March

Japanese forced about 60,000 of americans and philippines to march 100 miles with little food and water, most died or were killed on the way

Navajo Codetalkers

Used Navajo language as an unbreakable code in the Pacific War against Japan.