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30 Cards in this Set
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Nazis |
A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party |
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Adolf Hitler |
Leader of Nazi Germany who initiated World War II and oversaw fascist policies that resulted in millions of deaths |
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Blitzkrieg |
"Lightning War" |
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"Rape of Nanking" |
Nanking, the capital of China was destroyed by Japanese troops. The Japanese butchered male “war prisoners", male civilians, and raped at least 20,000 women and girls of all ages, many of whom were mutilated or killed in the process |
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Munich Conference |
A result of a long series of negotiations |
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Nye Report |
A Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, was a United States Senate committee chaired by U.S. Senator Gerald Nye |
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WACs |
The Women's Army Corps was the women's branch of the United States Army |
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Operation Torch |
The British-American invasion of French North Africa |
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Operation Overload |
The code name for the Battle of Normandy |
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Code Talkers |
People in the 20th century who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime |
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Neutrality Acts |
Response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II |
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Selective Service Act |
Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I |
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Lend-Lease Act |
The principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II |
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Pearl Harbor |
Surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
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USS Arizona |
Battleship destroyed during the attack on Pearl Harbor |
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Jeannette Rankin |
First woman elected to the United States Congress |
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99th Pursuit Squadron |
African American fighter pilots |
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Battle of Midway |
Crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II |
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Okinawa |
Battle fought on the island of Okinawa |
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Iwo Jima |
US Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II |
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War Productions Board (WPB) |
Agency of the US govt that supervised war production during World War II |
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Revenue Act of 1942 |
Increased individual income tax rates, increased corporate tax rates, and reduced the personal exemption amount |
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Double V Campaign |
Campaign to end discrimination and segregation of blacks (Victory over our enemies and Victory at home) |
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Glenn Miller |
Musician-big band guy |
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Rosie the Riveter |
Iconic image of working women during the war |
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Executive Order 9066 |
Removed all Japanese on the West coast |
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442nd Combat Team |
Fighting unit composed almost entirely of American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II |
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Hiroshima |
The US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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Enola Gay |
The Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named for Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets |
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Kamikazees |
Several suicide attacks by Japanese pilots from units other than the Special Attack Force, have been described as the first Kamikaze attack |
