WWII Review Flashcards
Who were the Axis powers?
Germany, Japan, Italy
Who is Mussolini?
Leader of Japan
Who is Stalin?
Leader of Russia
Who is Hitler?
Leader of Germany
What impact did WWII have on the US economy?
Unemployment rate dropped to 10%
What was the Bataan Death March?
60-80,000 American & Flilpinno prisoners marched 65 miles through the Philipines
What was the “project” that resulted in the atomic bomb?
The Manhattan Project
What was the lend-lease Act?
Allowed America to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed vital to the defense of the U.S.
How is the lend-lease Act relevant today?
We let Ukraine borrow our war supplies.
Explain the process of “island hopping” in the Pacific against the Japanese.
Island hopping is going from island to island to lose & gain materials and men to get closer to Japan and defeat it.
Who is FDR?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What was Pearl Harbor?
It is the symbol of WWII. Japan Attacked it, starting the war.
What was the Battle of Midway?
Secured dominance in the Pacific
What was D-Day?
Aka. Operation Overload is when all of the military land, air, and sea. Created the largest invasion
What is Nazism?
Anti-semitism and democratic parliament system
What is Fascism?
Centralized government through a dictator leader; nationalism & race are above the individual,
What is Isolationism?
The belief that one country should stay out of the war.
Who is Rosie Riveter?
Symbolized women who worked in factories, shipyards, and other defense production.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Peace between Germany and the victorious allies?
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
People of the Navajo tribe who helped fight the war in the war using a code language.
What was some WWII technology?
Synthetic rubber - duct tape - the jeep - the atomic bomb
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
America’s first black military airmen
Who were the Nisei Soldiers?
Second Generation Japanese - American Soldiers
