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25 Cards in this Set
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code talker |
who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime
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v-j day |
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which the Empire of Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war.
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operation overlord |
Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy
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v-e day |
Victory in Europe Day
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island hopping |
strategy that captured successive islands from japanese and brought the american navy closer to an invasion of japan |
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manhattan project |
code name for World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons |
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the zoot suit riots |
were a series of attacks in June 1943 in Los Angeles, California, United States, by white American servicemen stationed in Southern California against Mexican American youths and other minorities who were residents of the city.
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japanese interment |
roughly 11000 men, women and children were sent to hastily constructed camps called "war relocation centers" in remote portions of the nations interior during ww2 |
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korematsu vs. us |
1944 supreme court case where the supreme court upheld the order providing for the relocation of japanese americans |
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executive order #9066 |
signed by fdr on feb 19,1942 after the attack on pearl harbor |
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yalta confrence |
1945 meeting with the u.s president fdr, british prime minister and soviet leader during ww2 to plan post war |
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harry s. truman |
33rd president of the u.s |
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rosie the riveter |
advertising campain character who encouraged women to take facory jobs |
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442nd regiment combat team |
u.s army regiment. fought italy, france, and germany |
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marshall plan |
arrangement that the us came up with revive war torn economies of europe this arrangement offerd 13 billion in aid to western and south europe |
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kamikaze |
japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into american ships |
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fdr |
president from 1933 until his death in 1945 |
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axis powers |
japan,germany, italy |
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d-day |
june 6, 1944, allied forces landed in normandy, france to begin a massive offensive againts the germans |
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appeasement |
policy which by great britan and france agreed to germanys annexation |
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A.hitler |
leader of the nazi party |
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benito m. |
head of the italian fascist party |
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battle of the bulge |
the actions following the german offensive through the ardennes in dec 1944 |
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lend lease act |
march 1941 allowed americans to sell, lend or lease arms or other supplies to nations |
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allied nations |
contries fighting againts the axis powers |
