Pearl Harbor - HomeFront Flashcards
Quiz 1 (29 cards)
Philippine Islands
“American Territory”
Bataan Death March
70k Filipino prisoner forced to March 50 miles.
Douglas Mac Arthur
“I Shall Return”
Col James Doolittle
“Suicide mission”
Admiral Chester Nimitz
American Fleet Commander
Battle of the Coral Sea
USA fleet stops the Invasion of Australia
Battle of Midway
US defeats Japanese and stops the invasion of Hawaii.
Battle of Guadalcanal
6-month bloody battle to control the airfield
Henrick Himmler
Head of the SS
SS (BLACK SHIRTS)
In charge of the holocaust
Final Solution
Code Word
Immigration
make life so bad in Germany.
Mobile Death Squads
dug trenches and were machined gunned to death
Einsatzgroupen
Poland/Soviet Union
Ghettos
Jews rounded up on the cities closed behind barbed wire and forced to work with little food.
Death Camps/Gas Chambers
Jews gassed in showers.
Peak
Up to 15,000 per day KILLED
Corrie ten Boom
Dutch Christians who hid Jews.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German protestant pastor who gave his life (cast of discipleship)
Oskar Schindler
businessman who gave his life saving Jews.
Anne Frank
Jewish girl who wrote a diary “Diary of Anne Frank”
POW camps
Held prisoner of war mostly in Germany
Work Camps
used slave labor to help the German war effort.
Death Camps
used to exterminate people.
