V For Vocab
Giving in to another's demands in order to maintain peace.
What is appeasement?
Systematic murder of European Jews.
What is the Holocaust?
He succeeded FDR as president.
Who is Harry Truman?
Supreme commander of Allied forces.
Who is Dwight (Ike) Eisenhower?
The date of the Pearl Harbor attack.
What is December 7, 1941?
Jewish businesses were looted and burned by the Nazis in 1938.
What is Kristallnacht?
Native-born Japanese Americans
Who are Nisei?
Who are the Code-Talkers?
German general commanding North Africa Korps.
Who is Erwin Rommel?
Turning point battle in North Africa.
What is El-Alamein?
Japanese suicide attacks.
What is kamikaze?
The daily bombing of London by the German air force.
What is the "Blitz?"
British prime minister who urged England to fight on and never give up.
Who is Winston Churchill?
Nickname of American women in the workforce.
Who is Rosie (the Riveter)?
Another name for western Czechoslovakia.
What is the Sudetenland?
Lightning-fast attacks.
What is blitzkrieg?
This plan made it illegal for countries to go to war.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
1 of the 2 primary leaders of Japan.
Who are Emperor Hirohito & Prime Minister Hideki Tojo?
Leader of fascist Italy.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
Turning point battle that saved Australia from invasion.
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea?
Attacking strategically important areas, while skipping others to move closer to Japan.
What is island hopping?
FDR authorized aid to any nation whose defense was vital to American security.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
Head of the atomic bomb research project in New Mexico.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
Leader of the Free France resistance movement.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
The date of the Allied invasion of France, aka D-Day.
What is June 6, 1944?