WW2 Test
Douglas MacArthur
American 5 star general that led the campaign in the Pacific. while fleeing the Philippines he famously said "I shall return"
Henry Kaiser
Contributed to wartime production by using mass production techniques to build liberty ships
Office of War Mobilization
Created by the US government to centralized agencies dealing with war production
Joseph Stalin
Dictator of the Soviet Union during WW2
Office of Price Administration
Federal government agency that kept prices regulated to avoid inflation during the war
Holocaust
Genocide of about 6 million Jews by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators
Ethipoia
Italy invaded this land in 1935. First step in forming their empire
Adolf Hitler
Leader of the Nazi party and Chancellor of Germany who started WW2
Yalta Conference
Meeting between the leaders of the Allied forces (Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt) to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
Franklin Roosevelt
President of the US during most of WW2
Harry Truman
President who ordered the drop of the atomic bomb on Japan to end the war and save American lives
Internment Camps
Prison where Japanese American were forced to relocate because they were considered a security risk
Korematsu v. US
Ruled that discrimination against the Japanese Americans was constitutionally legal by forcing them into interment camps
Manhattan Project
Secret program that developed the atomic bomb - led by Robert Oppenheimer
Dwight Eisenhower
The Supreme Commander of Allied Troops in Europe and the executor of the D-day invasion
D-Day
The allied invasion of Nazi occupied Europe on the beaches of Normandy, France
V-E day
The celebration when Germany finally surrendered
Battle of the Bulge
The largest battle in western Europe, last German offensive and Nazis realized the end is near
Executive Order 8802
This banned discrimination in defense industries and government
Truman's main reason for dropping the atomic bomb
To end the war quickly and save US lives
Island Hopping
US Strategy in the Pacific which slowly took territory, suffering huge casualties
Nagasaki
Victim of the 2nd US atomic bomb
Nonaggression Pact
an agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to take no military action against each other for the next 10 years
Bracero Program
enabled the importation of temporary contract laborers from mexico to address the urgent need for agricultural laborers
Victory Gardens
home projects that raised one third of the nations vegetables
America First Committee
isolationist wanted to stay neutral and wanted to block any aid to Britain
Selective Training and Service Act
law that required military service for all males between the ages of 21 to 36
Neutrality Acts
laws passes by the US to limit international involvement in the war in Europe
Korematsu v. US
ruler that the discrimination against Japanese Americans was constitutionally legal by forcing them into interment camps
Hiroshima
victim of the 1st US atomic bomb
