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military leaders had the power to est., "military areas" within the U.S. and to exclude "any or all persons" from these areas
Executive Order 9066
American B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb city of Hiroshima
Enola Gay
fought Germany on Western front
US, France, Great Britain
Japanese cities where atomic bombs were detonated
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
wrote letter to President Roosevelt urging U.S. to develop atomic bomb because the Nazis were
Albert Einstein
Over 100,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up and sent to these places fearing they would try to overthrow the U.S. after Pearl Harbor
Internment Camps
Big Three met to negotiate the terms for the end of WWII and to determine the postwar borders in Europe
Potsdam Conference
fought Germany on Eastern Front
Russia
one of 40,000 concentration camps throughout Europe where Jews, gypsies, political opponents, etc. were systematically exterminated
Dachau
U.S. aircraft dealt a devastating blow to the Japanese navy, destroying four aircraft carriers and marked the first major U.S. victory against Japan
Battle of Midway
decided that national security outweighed individual rights and upheld the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
Korematsu v. United States
composed of five permanent members - US, Great Britain, France, Russia, and China - to peacefully resolve international conflicts and prevent the outbreak of war
Security Council
gov't program that developed and built the first atomic bombs
Manhattan Project
originally meant to serve as a forward air base for fighter planes, providing for long-distance bombing raids
Iwo Jima
the hardest fought and bloodiest battle of the Pacific theater
Battle of Okinawa
a turning point of the war on the eastern front where 235,000 Axis soldiers were captured and over 200,000 killed
Battle of Stalingrad
created at the end of WWII as an international peacekeeping organization and a forum for resolving conflicts between nations. Replaced ineffective League of Nations
United Nations
He authorized the dropping of the atomic bombs
President Truman
skipping over heavily fortified islands in order to seize lightly defended locations that could support the next advance
Island Hopping
declared there would be no territorial aggrandizement as a result of the war, postwar international relations would be cooperative, and disputes between states would be resolved through peaceful negotiations and not the use of threat or force
Atlantic Charter
Allied forces overwhelm Hitler's Atlantic wall in Normandy, France in Operation Overlord
D-Day
establish a second front along which the Americans and British would directly engage German forces in western Europe that offered the best means of drawing Germany away from the east
Stalin Demand
high ranking military officer in Pacific who pursued island hopping strategy
General Douglas MacArthur
suicide mission where Japanese pilots flew plans into ships killing themselves and others
Kamikaze
Bataan Death March
650 Americans and 10,000 Filipinos prisoners of war were killed