Karteikarten
World War 2 Flashcards Pt.1
Karten in diesem Stapel (41)
- 1TotalitarianismPolitical system in which the government controls the citizens' lives
- 2NationalismLoyalty to one's country
- 3FascismPolitical system in which the government is seen as more important than individuals
- 4Benito MussoliniItalian leader who gained control in 1922
- 5Treaty of VersaillesThe treaty that supposedly ended World War I
- 6Adolf HitlerPolitician, World War I veteran, militant nationalist; took advantage of anger to gain power; fiery speaker; one of the most important people
- 7NazisHitler's National Socialist Party
- 8Joseph StalinDictator of the Soviet Union in 1928; terrorized political enemies or those who stood in his way
- 9DictatorsOne who possesses absolute power and sometimes abuses that power
- 10Axis PowersGermany, Italy, and Japan
- 11Allied PowersGreat Britain, France, and the U.S. (Soviet Union did join them, but not as an ally)
- 12SudetenlandA region in Czechoslovakia where many Germans lived; Hitler wanted control of this region
- 13Munich ConferenceGermany was given control over the Sudetenland, but in return, they couldn't demand more land
- 14Neville ChamberlainBritish prime minister; tried to work out a peaceful solution; upset that appeasement didn't work out
- 15Winston ChurchillBritish admiral; knew that appeasement wouldn't work
- 16AppeasementA policy of avoiding war with an aggressive nation by giving in to its demands
- 17Invasion of PolandHappened on September 1, 1939; start of World War II; Hitler used blitzkrieg to break through defenses and take control
- 18Blitzkrieg"lightning war"
- 19DunkirkWhere Germans invaded France and where soldiers were trapped; British ships and boats raced to this port city to rescue them across the English Channel
- 20Battle of BritainWhen the Luftwaffe began attacking British planes and airfields; this was a British victory
- 21Royal Air ForceBritain's air force that used the radar to destroy 2,300 of the Luftwaffe's aircraft
- 22LuftwaffeGerman air force that tried to bomb British cities, but failed
- 23RadarTechnology that helped the RAF to detect and destroy the Luftwaffe's aircraft
- 24Lend-Lease ActPassed by Congress in March 1941, allowed the president to aid any nation that was vital to U.S. defense
- 25Pearl Harbor AttackHappened on December 7, 1941, when Japanese planes sank or damaged all the battleships at this Hawaiian place. More than 2,400 Americans were killed and almost 200 planes were destroyed. This made the U.S. join World War II
- 26Mobilization in the U.S.Brought the Depression to an end. Economy was converted to war production and it doubled the Axis' Powers combined, agricultural production grew and unemployment fell to 1%, conservation of food
- 27War Production BoardCreated by the government to oversee the conversion of factories to war production, banned production of cars
- 28Selective Training and Service Act in 1940Passed by Congress and was the first peace time draft in the country's history. Men from ages 21 to 35 were required to register for this draft
- 29War bondsLoans that people made to the government. Those who made loans would get their money back ten years later with interest
- 30Collecting scrap metalAmericans started doing this because it could be used in weapons factories
- 31RationingLimiting the supply of something
- 32Wartime opportunities for womenSince so many men left their jobs to fight in the war, women stepped up to take their places. Formed Women's Auxiliary Army Corps and Women's Airforce Service Pilots
- 33Great MigrationWhen African Americans moved to northern cities to find factory jobs
- 34African-Americans and Mexican-AmericansThese people faced discrimination in the war
- 35Tuskegee AirmenAfrican American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama; flew thousands of successful combat mission in North Africa and Italy
- 36A. Philip RandolphOrganized a march to Washington, DC, in 1941 to protest unfair treatment of receiving lower pay than white workers
- 37Benjamin O. Davis Jr.The first African American general in the U.S. Air Force that led the Tuskegee Airmen
- 38Zoot-suit riotsWhat started as groups of sailors attacked Mexican-Americans wearing zoot-suits
- 39Japanese-American internmentThe relocation and imprisonment of Japanese-Americans. The reason for this was because of fear and suspicion of Americans of Japanese descent
- 40IsseiImmigrants born in Japan
- 41NiseiAmerican citizens born in the U.S. to Japanese immigrant parents
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