Key Terms 1
These were Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives that made deliberate suicidal attacks on the enemy.
What are kamikazes?
The name for the British strategy aimed at avoiding war with Germany by not objecting to Hitler’s policy of territorial expansion.
What is appeasement?
He was the Fascist dictator of Italy.
Who is Mussolini?
He became president after the death of Franklin Roosevelt in 1945.
Who is Harry Truman?
This was the primary reason Japan attacked territories in mainland Asia.
They needed resources to support their growing industries.
These were the two Japanese cities on which an atomic bomb was dropped.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This was the code name for the top secret effort to develop an atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This 1940 law required all eligible men to register for a potential military draft.
What is the Selective Service Act?
He was the supreme leader of Japan.
Who is Emperor Hirohito?
He was the lead scientist on the Manhattan Project.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
This was the primary reason Hitler focused his anger on Jews, Communists, and intellectuals in the 1930s.
What is he blamed them for Germany's embarrassment in WWI and the economic struggles that followed.
The battle was considered the turning point in the war in the Pacific.
What is Midway?
The policy of that promised the United States would not interfere in the internal or external affairs of another country, particularly in the Americas.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
Legislation passed in 1935 and 1937 that was meant to protect trade while avoiding involvement in foreign wars.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
He was the American General who led the attack on D-Day.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
He was the American General who commanded tank units that helped defeat the Germans in North Africa in 1943.
Who is George Patton?
This action by the US led to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is an oil embargo on Japan?
This was the US strategy in the Pacific in which Allied forces strategically took control of regions of the South Pacific as they approached the islands of Japan.
What is island hopping?
The effort in America to attack racism at home and abroad.
What is the Double V Campaign?
This is the term for an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.
What is blitzkrieg?
US Admiral whose fleet helped retake Japanese-held islands in southern and mid-Pacific.
Who is Chester Nimitz?
The Prime Minister of Britain who allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland if he agreed to leave the rest of Czechoslovakia alone.
Who is Neville Chamberlain?
This order by FDR led to Japanese internment camps in the western United States.
What is Executive Order 9066?
This was the name of the last German offensive in which the Nazis attacked a weak point in allied lines in Belgium.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
This law allowed Britain to obtain arms from the United States without cash but with the promise to reimburse the United States after the war.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Legislation passed in 1944 that allowed Congress to provide funding for veteran education, housing, and healthcare as well as loans to start businesses and buy homes.
What is the GI Bill of Rights?
He was the commander of US armed forces in the Pacific during the war.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
The German general defeated by the British at El-Alamein.
Who is Erwin Rommel?
This advancement in technology helped Allied forces better find and destroy German U-Boats.
What is radar and sonar?
This secret meeting was led by Allied leaders in which they discussed the control of post war Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?