Holocaust
Kristallnacht
Name given to the night of November 9, 1938, when Nazis in Germany attacked Jews and their homes, businesses, and synagogues
Japanese suicide flight
kamikaze
how far did the soldiers have to march
65 miles
City that was the site of the first atomic-bomb drop in Japan
Hiroshima
Pilot who flew and dropped atomic bomb
Paul Tibbets
A prison camp operated by the Nazis where Jews and others were starved while doing slave labor, or murdered
Concentration Camp
First peacetime military draft under which 16 million men between the ages of 21 and 35 were registered
Selective Training and Service Act
who ordered Mcarthur to withdraw
FDR
what sate was test bomb detonated
nm
Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945
V-E Day
Deliberate and systematic killing of an entire people
Genocide
A day that will live in infamy
Dec 7 1941
American commander in the Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Scientist who led the Manhattan Project
J. Robert Oppenheimer
name of a bombs
fat guy little boy
murder of more than 11 million Jews and other people in Europe by the Nazis
Holocaust
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Axis powers
(CORE) Interracial organization formed to fight discrimination
Congress of Racial Equality
name one scientist who helped convince the president to research a bomb
Einstien
What German city was known to have a Death Camp
Auschwitz
man who was mastermind behind the Holocaust
Hitler
Group of nations, including the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union
Allies
(OPA) Agency of the federal government that fought inflation
rationing Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military
Office of Price Administration
Japanese city that was the site of the second atomic-bomb drop
Nagasaki
Native code breakers were called what and from what tribe
navajo