Unit 5 Review (WWII)

Important Figures

100

The President of the U.S. during the Great Depression and WWII

Franklin D. Roosevelt

200

The 33rd President of the U.S. who made the choice to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Harry Truman

300

Leader of the Soviet-Union during WWII. A dictator who killed millions of his own citizens.

Joseph Stalin

400

American general who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during WWII

Douglas McArthur 

500

The commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces during WWII and led the invasion of Normandy

Dwight Eisenhower

Important Events

100

A surprise attack by Japan on U.S. naval base that dragged the U.S. into WWII

Pearl Harbor

200

Systematic state-sponsored prosecution and mass murder of millions of European Jews, Romani, and disabled

The Holocaust

300

WWII naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the U.S. destroyed Japan's first carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots.

Battle of Midway

400

The Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.

Invasion of Normandy

500

Japanese forced 76,000 captured allied soldiers (Filipinos and Americans) to march about 80 miles, while getting abused and killed.

Bataan Death March

Important Groups

100

A dominant group of fighter pilots during WWII 

Flying Tigers

200

A group of African-American military pilots and airmen who fought during WWII

Tuskegee Airmen

300

Native American soldiers used their native languages as codes to send sensitive military messages over open radio waves

Navajo Code Talkers

400

Originally allied with Germany at the start of the war but switched sides when betrayed by Germany.

Soviet Union 

500

Intergovernmental military alliance between 27 European countries, 2 North American countries, and 1 Eurasian country

NATO

Terms

100

Peace document signed at the end of WWI  by the allied powers and Germany 

Treaty of Versailles

200

Permitted the U.S. military to require Japanese Americans to relocate to interior internment camps

Executive Order 9066

300

Money given to the government for military finance.

War Bonds

400

Sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions after WWII. Provided more than a billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent.

Marshall Plan

500

A military operation in the late 1940's that brought food and other needed goods into west Berlin by air.

Berlin Airlift