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WWII Flashcards/172 Exam Q’s andA’s
405,400 people - -how many Americans died in WWII
-A. Philip Randolph - -Who threatened to lead a march against Washington
DC because of racial discrimination during WWII?
-Adolf Hitler - -leader of Nazi Party (National Socialist party) and Dictator of
the German Empire
-Allied Powers - -Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States.
-America First Committee - -wants to stay out of the war and wants to send
aid to Britain.
-Anschluss - -The annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938.& violation of
Treaty of Versailles
-anti-semitism - -Discrimination against Jews
-appeasement - -attempting to avoid conflict by making concessions and
agreeing to part of the demands (giving Hitler what he wanted so he would
stop aggression)
-Arsenal of Democracy - -FDR's justification for lending weapons to the
British
-Atlantic Charter - -secret agreement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1941 outlining the two nations' war
aims for self-determination
-Axis Alliance - -alliance between germany, italy, and japan because they all
wanted empires and they were totalitarian
-Battle of Britain - -only battle to ever be fought completely in the air,
Germany tries to subdue England with massive air attacks
-Battle of Midway - -U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942,
in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a
turning point in World War II.
-Battle of Stalingrad - -a 1942-1943 battle of World War II, in which German
forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the
, Soviet Union thanks to harsh winter --> turning point of war in Eastern
Europe
-Battle of the Atlantic - -long fight to control the ocean trade routes
between German U-Boats & USA --> 1943: Allies win thanks to refined radar
-Battle of the Bulge - -Germany's last battle
-Benito Mussolini - -fascist dictator of Italy, Il Duce -- the Leader
-Berlin Airlift - -Truman's response to Stalin cutting off West Berlin
-Big Three - -Stalin, FDR, Churchill
-blitzkrieg - -German for lightning war; the swift attacks launched by
Germany in World War II
-Cash and carry - -A policy adopted by the United States in 1939 to
preserve neutrality while aiding the Allies. Britain and France could buy
goods from the United States if they paid in full and transported them.
-Chamberlin - -English prime minister, appeased Hitler @ Munich
-Charles de Gaulle - -led the Free French and backed the underground
Resistance movement in France.
-Charles Drew - -Invented blood banks
-Cold War - -US versus USSR 1946-1988
-Collaboration - -to work together with other nations.
-Concentration Camps - -places where political prisoners are confined.
-Containment - -Surround Soviet satellites to prevent Communist expansion
-Czechoslovakia - -home od sedatan land (Hitler demanded it)
-D-day - -June 6, 1944 Allies land on the beaches in Normandy, France and
go on the offensive to drive Hitler's forces back into Germany
-D-Day/Operation Overlord - -June 6th 1944, Allied forces under Dwight d.
Eisenhower landed on the beaches of Normandy in history's greatest naval
invasion --> surrounded Germ. to force surrender
-June 6, 1944 - -Dday
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