Things/Places Flashcards
Lebensraum
Living space that Germany needed to have Aryans raise large families
Enola Gay
The first plane to drop an atomic bomb from the US
Double V Campaign
- “Double V” stood for “Victory Abroad and Victory at Home.” For African Americans
- Freedom from segregation
Mein Kampf
- A book Hitler wrote while in jail, about how Jews were the cause of all German problems
- translates to “my struggle”
Anschluss
Political union, or merging of countries
Rhineland
An area in between Germany and France, where Hitler marched troops into and claimed it to be his own. Before WWII
Sudentenland
The Sudetenland is the German name to refer to those northern, southern, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by ethnic German speakers
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The two cities in Japan that the U?S. dropped the atomic bombs on to end WWII
Manhattan Project
The secret project in the U.S. to build an atomic bomb, and use it to end WWII
Japanese Internment
During WWII, Japanese-Americans were moved to enclosed camps. This stripped them of their rights, yet it was considered constitutional by the Supreme Court.
Tuskegee airmen
the men and women, who were involved in the so-called “Tuskegee Experience”, the Army Air Corps program to train African Americans to fly and maintain combat aircraft.
World Bank
- designed to provide loans to help countries recover from war
- much of the funding came from the U.S.
United Nations
-in secession to the League of Nations
General assembly: all countries
Security Council: 5 permanent members (allies that won WWII), and other rotational ones
