Ch. 24 World War II 1941-45

Bastogne, Belgium

After Hitler's last failed attempt for an offensive attack, Allied bombers attacked German positions in this place.

Yalta

At this conference, FDR, Stalin and Churchill discussed final strategy and postwar Germany. Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would hold free elections. Stalin promised to enter war against Japan.

Casablanca

At this conference, the Allies decided to increase bombing of Germany and invade Italy. FDR also announced that the Allies would only accept unconditional surrender from the Axis Powers.

internment

Centers in remote inland areas where Japanese Americans were confined during WWII

Dwight Eisenhower

Commanded Allied forces against the Axis Powers in North Africa and France.

George S. Patton, Jr.

Eisenhower put American forces in North Africa under the command of this person.

Douglas MacArthur

General who led the US Army Forces in Asia

Joseph Stalin

He wanted to open a second front in Europe during the war against Germany.

Nagasaki

Japan's surrender came less than a week after the bombing of this city

D-Day

June 6, 1944. Allowed the Allies to take an important step toward Berlin

Rommel

Known as the "Desert Fox"

Aryans

Nazi ideology considered this group superior to other people.

Omaha

One of the five beaches at Normandy heavily defended by the Germans.

Tehran Conference

Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to open a second front against Germany by invading France.

Battle of Coral Sea

Strategically an American victory since Japan was forced to call off their attack on New Guinea

Operation Overlord

The massive Allied invasion in France was code named this.

Manhattan Project

The program that developed the atomic bomb was code-named this.

Mussolini

This leader wanted his empire to stretch from the eastern Adriatic to East Africa.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

This physicist helped lead the program to build the atomic bomb.

Potsdam

Truman, Clement Atlee, and Stalin decided to divide Germany into four zones of occupation at this conference.

Stalingrad

Turning point in Europe. Ended Hitler's plans for dominating Europe.

War Refugee Board

U.S. organization designed to aid Eastern European Jews

Battle of Midway

US forced Japan on the defensive after this American victory.

442nd Regimental Combat Team

all-Nisei unit; most decorated military unit in U.S. history

Nuremberg Laws

denied German citizenship and other rights to Jews.

Executive Order 9066

responsible for Japanese internment camps