WW2 test

• Totalitarianism


  Theory of government in which one person or party controls all aspects of life
• Saturation bombing


  Dropping large amounts of bombs to inflict maximum damage
• German Dictator 


  Adolf Hitler
• Manhattan Project


  Program to develop the atomic bomb
• Atlantic Charter


  Document that strengthened the alliance between the US and Britain
• Bracero Program


  Plan to bring laborers from Mexico to work on American farms
• Blitzkreig


  ”Lightening war”
• Battle of the Bulge


  An attempt to drive a wedge between the US and British forces
• Strategic bombing


  Dropping bombs that target key political centers
• George S. Patton Jr.


  General known as “Blood and Guts”
• Winston Churchill


  British leader who said that Nazi aggression threatened all democracies
• Anschluss appeasement


  Germany’s peaceful annexation of Austria
• D-Day


  Allied invasion of Normandy
• Unconditional surrender


  Accepting defeat without any concessions
• Became President after FDR’s death

  Harry S. Truman
• Rationing


  Limiting the amount of certain goods that civilians can buy
• Tripartite Act


  Signed by the Axis Powers
• WAC


  Army auxiliary corps for women
• Dwight Eisenhower 


  Led the Allied invasion of North Africa and D-Day
• Hideki Tojo


  Staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
• Internment


  Policy of temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group
• Island hopping


  Strategy of the US military in the Pacific
• Nuremberg Trials


  Legal action taken against the Nazi’s
• Douglas MacArthur


  US Commander in the Philippines
• Axis Powers


  Germany, Japan, Italy
• Pearl Harbor date 


  December 7 1941
• The income tax


  What income women generated during the war to help boost the government’s income
• Beginning of WW2


  Factories were underutilized, easily got converted into the “arsenal of democracy“
• Result of the Battle of Midway


  Japan never again threatened Pacific domination
• Executive Order 9066


  Designated war zones from which anyone could be removed
• Neutrality Act of 1939

  Allowed nations at war to buy arms and other equipment as long as they paid cash and transported materials themselves
• Priority in using the Atomic bomb against Japan


  President Truman wanted to save American lives
• One effect of D-Day


  The Allies took an important step towards reaching Britain
• American forces approaching Japan


  Japanese forces fought till they died instead of surrender
• Soviet Union and US


  Two nations that emerged as the strongest following WW2
• After the US declared war, the nation’s economic situation improved
• Korematsu v. United States; Supreme Court decision


  Security reasons override civil rights in time of war
• Winston Churchill


  leader of Great Britain
• Benito Mussolini


  Fascist leader of Italy
• Japan surrender


  The atomic bomb