Va/us Hist Sol 11 & 12 (World War Ii & Nationalism)

Front 1

Hitler's invasion of Poland

Back 1

Reason WWII began

Front 2

1939

Back 2

Year WWII began

Front 3

Isolationism

Back 3

policy of the U.S. for the first two years of WWII

Front 4

Lend-Lease Act

Back 4

Allowed the President (FDR) to sell war materials to Great Britain

Front 5

Why did the U.S. stop trading with Japan?

Back 5

Japan invaded and brutalized Manchuria and China

Front 6

December 7, 1941

Back 6

Japan attacks the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Front 7

Germany's response after Pearl Harbor

Back 7

Declares war on the United States

Front 8

WWII Allies

Back 8

Britain, France, Soviet Union, United States, China

Front 9

WWII Axis Powers

Back 9

Germany, Italy, Japan

Front 10

Allied strategy in European Theater

Back 10

Defeat Hitler first

Front 11

Allied strategy in Pacific Theater

Back 11

island hopping

Front 12

Non-Aggression Pact

Back 12

Hitler and Stalin agree to not go to war with one another for at least 10 years

Front 13

"Date that will live in infamy"

Back 13

December 7, 1941 (Attack on Pearl Harbor)

Front 14

Germany's goals in European Theater

Back 14

Defeat the Soviet Union quickly and gain control of its oil fields

Defeat Britain through a bombing campaign

Front 15

Japan's actions after Pearl Harbor

Back 15

Invades Philippines and Indonesia

Front 16

El Alamein

Back 16

British defeat Hitler in northern Africa and prevent them from gaining access to oil in Middle East

Front 17

Stalingrad

Back 17

Turning point on the eastern front

Prevents Hitler from gaining control of Soviet oil fields

Front 18

Normandy landings (D-Day)

Back 18

June 6, 1944

Allied troops land in German occupied France

Leads to the liberation of France

Front 19

Midway

Back 19

turning point of the war in the Pacific

Front 20

Iwo Jima and Okinawa

Back 20

brought American forces closer to Japan, cost significant casualties

Front 21

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Back 21

the two cities the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on

Front 22

V-E Day

Back 22

Fall of Berlin

Germany Surrenders

Front 23

Manhattan Project

Back 23

U.S. development of the atomic bomb

Front 24

V-J Day

Back 24

Japan surrenders

August 10, 1945

Front 25

Tuskegee Airmen

Back 25

most famous African American military unit

Front 26

Navajo Code

Back 26

oral language used between military units that was impossible for the Japanese to break

Front 27

Nisei regiment

Back 27

Most famous Asian-American military unit

Front 28

Internment camps

Back 28

Japanese-Americans were relocated to these during WWII

Front 29

Genocide

Back 29

the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group

Front 30

Holocaust

Back 30

the German genocide during WWII of the Jewish people

Front 31

Kristallnacht

Back 31

"Night of Broken Glass"

Jewish homes and business are attacked

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Other groups targeted by Hitler

Back 32

Poles, Slavs, Gypsies, Mentally and Physically Handicapped, Homosexuals, Political Dissents

Front 33

Concentration Camps

Back 33

slave-labor prisons

Prisoners were forced to work seven days a week with little food or sleep

Front 34

Auschwitz

Back 34

largest concentration camp

Front 35

Nuremburg Trials

Back 35

Nazi leaders were put on trial and convicted of war crimes

Front 36

Rationing

Back 36

used to maintain supply of essential products to the war effort

Front 37

War Bonds & Income Tax

Back 37

Used for financing the war

Front 38

"Rosie the Riveter"

Back 38

became a symbol for women in the workplace

Front 39

Draft/ selective service

Back 39

used to provide personnel for the military

Front 40

Bataan Death March

Back 40

American POWs suffered brutal treatment by Japanese after surrender of the Philippines

Front 41

Geneva Convention

Back 41

attempted to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners of war by establishing rules to be followed by all nations

Front 42

West Germany

Back 42

controlled by England, France, U.S.

eventually became democratic and resumed self-government

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East Germany

Back 43

controlled by the Soviet Union

eventually became communist

Front 44

Japan (post-war)

Back 44

occupied by the U.S. and adopted a democratic form of government

Front 45

Marshall Plan

Back 45

used to provide financial assistance to rebuild European economies and prevent the spread of communism

Front 46

United Nations

Back 46

purpose was to prevent any further world war from happening