Chapter 11-2 Flashcards

(33 cards)

1
Q

Meeting of the big three

A

Yalta Conference

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2
Q

How many parts was Germany split into?

A

4 parts

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3
Q

Hitler had used the rail way to try and punch a hole in our defenses

A

Battle of Bulge

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4
Q

Who surrounded Berlin

A

The USSR

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5
Q

Victory in Europe Day
(Need to Know!!!!)

A

May 8th, 1945

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6
Q

Who died before the end?

A

FDR

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7
Q

6-12 day journey, beaten and totrured

A

Bataan Death March

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8
Q

The United States was able to stop the Japanese advance on Australia at:

A

The Battle of the Coral Sea

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9
Q

All US Army units in the Pacific were under who’s control?

A

Douglas MacArthur

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10
Q

All US Navy units in the Pacific were under who’s control?

A

Chester Nimitz

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11
Q

Part of the Solomon Island

A

Guadalcanal

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12
Q

Strategy of selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and by passing others

A

Island - hopping

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13
Q

Suicide Planes / Bombers

A

Kamikazes

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14
Q

The closer we got to Japan the more brutal the fighting got

A

Iwo Jima

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15
Q

What were the Japanese soldiers notorious for?

A

Never surrendering

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16
Q

The image were used by the media to promote the buying of…

A

Victory Bonds

17
Q

What did the enemies pledge to fight for in the Battle of Okinawa?

A

fight to the death

18
Q

Attacks in which the soldiers tried to kill as many of the enemy as possible until they themselves were killed

A

Banzai charges

19
Q

In order to obtain this weapon before any other power FDR started…..

A

The Manhattan Project

20
Q

Who was the final decision was left up to after FDR had died?

A

President Harry S. Truman

21
Q

American plane the Enola Gray dropped an atomic bomb where?

22
Q

Name of the two bombs

A

Fatman and Little Boy

23
Q

Victory Day in Japan
(Need to Know!!!)

A

August 15, 1945

24
Q

Many jobs and places were still practicing what?

A

Discrimination and segregation

25
Name of African American Pilots who learned to fly in Alabama
Tuskegee Airmen
26
Help give jobs to Mexican Americans
Bracero program
27
Mexican farm laborers brought to work in the US
Bracero
28
Mexican Americans still felt discrimination =
Zoot suit riots
29
Because of these fears the government decided to _________________ from the west coast
remove all "aliens"
30
Confined in camps in remote areas far from the coast
Interned
31
Japanese people born in the US (2nd Generation)
Nisei
32
Symbolized the war contributions women made
Rosie the Riveter
33
When the war ended what happened to many of the women jobs?
Their jobs ended as well