WWII Terms Flashcards by Erika S

First peacetime conscription act in the U.S. for WWII (also known as Selective Service and Training Act)

Burke-Wadsworth Act

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Another name for Burke-Wadsworth Act; 1st peacetime conscription act in U.S. for WWII

Selective Service and Training Act

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U.S. group that registered and selected men for conscription by Selective Service and Training Act

Draft boards

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Coordinated defense projects; creation committee

Office of Production Management (OPM)

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Committee helped create fridges to airplanes; convert everything to help the battle

War Production Board (WPB)

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Committee helped give loans to people wanting to build factories

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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Committee that created ceilings so inflation didn’t occur

Office of Price Administration (OPA)

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Committee that created no strike pledges and worked with unions to keep them in their jobs

National War Labor Board

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Also known as Smith-Connally act; made it illegal for workers to protest

War Labor Disputes Act

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Mexicans work in U.S. because of this

Bracero Program

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Citizens grew these to provide produce for army officers

“victory gardens”

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US raised tax rates on both individuals and corporations and increased taxes on excess profits

The Revenue Act of 1942

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Consolidated government news services in America and abroad; Connection between battlefront and civilians

Office of War Information

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Supreme Court; uphold freedom of speech

Hartzel v. United States

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Cartoons about war

“Private Snafu” & “Der Fuehrer’s Face”

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Paper that ordered Japanese internment

Executive Order 9066

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Agency that handled internment

War Relocation Authority (WRA)

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Females w/ full military status

Women’s Army Corps

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Females in navy

WAVES

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Flying females

WASPs

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Female Coast Gaurd

SPARs

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Female Marines

Women Reservists

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Poster girl; “We can do it!”; encourage women workers (WWII)

Rosie the Riveter

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Document after WWI; Germany affected greatly (negative)

Treaty of Versailles

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Attempt to remove tensions between countries esp. France and Germany

Locarno Pact

Group by Pres. Wilson to prevent other wars; not very effective

League of Nations

U.S. laws that made them isolationist in beginning of WWII

Neutrality Acts

Tried to limit naval arms race

Washington Conference

US agreement that says war is bad

Kellog-Briand Pact

takes place in Manchuria; Japan invading Chinese islands; 1st example of appeasement

Mudken Incident

Italy invades African nation; makes Italy leave; 2nd example of appeasement

Abyssinian Crisis

Reaffirm Locarno Pact

Stresa Front

Fascists Vs Republicans; Fascists win

Spanish Civil War

letting countries do what they please

Appeasement

document concerning British and Germany's battleships; allows (Hitler's country) to have an army of battleships

Anglo-German Naval Agreement

Demilitarized zone for Treaty of Versailles; soon militarized by Hitler

Rhineland

Occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany

Anschluss

Living space; Weltpolitik part 2

Lebensraum

Agreement not to act between Germany and Soviet Union; prevented 2-front war

Non-Aggression Pact

Alliance between Germany and Japan against Communism

Anti-Comintern Pact

Alliance between Germany and Italy

Rome-Berlin Axis

Czechoslovakia divided and Hitler given Sudetenland

Munich Conference

Hitler given this at Munich Conference

Sudetenland

Country split between USSR and Germany

Poland

Germany did this; no rules of sea battles; WWI & WWII

unrestricted submarine warfare

Allies guided merchant systems through ocean

convoy system

Group of German battleships to be used against sonar systems

wolf pack

Early sonar system; detects enemy ships

ASDIC

Anti submarine technology that detected submarines

radar

Dreadnaught of WWII

Bismarck

German air force

Luftwaffe

Turning point; 1st time German forces do not achieve major goal

Battle of Britain

Germans bomb British city

London Blitz

German soldiers fought against Soviet Union for control of the Russian leader's namesake country

Battle of Stalingrad

Another name for battle of Normandy, or d day

Operation Overlord

Where D day took place

Normandy

Conflict where German soldiers attacked through dense forest, big surprise

Battle of the Bulge

"Cut of the Sickle"; German advance through Belgium

Manstein Plan

"Death's Head"; Germans go into Poland to kill civilian Jews

Totenkopf

Concentration camps for Jews

Holocaust

When allied forced evacuated out of France because Germans surrounded them

Operation Dynamo

Fired from front of the ship; three large charges

squid

Fired from back of the ship; 24 small charges

hedgehog

Sea trap of mines

Dover barrage

Fast, small ships

frigate & corvette

Planes go from deck of the ship to the air

Catapult Aircraft Merchant Ships

Used as main warships of a fleet

Aircraft Carriers

Big space in the middle of the ocean; didn't let airplanes fly long distances

Mid-Atlantic Gap

British single seat fighter plane

Spitfire

Group that looked at pictures and gave information abiut it

Central Interpretation Unit

Created German encryption

Enigma machine

Large aircrafts without propellers that were tethered to one place, prevent movement

barrage balloons

Transmit strong radio waves in the same frequency as the radar

jammer

Cloud of thin lightweight strips of metal cut to a specific size, which can be dispersed from a heavy bomber

chaffs

German "lightning" war during WWII; everything is fast

Blitzkreig

French state during WWII

Vichy, France

Fortifications along Franco-German border

Maginot line

Used to accurately drop explosions

bomb sights

British intelligence

MI 4

2 man German dive bomber

Stukas

British flying

RAF

WWII alliance between Germany, Japan, and Italy

Axis Powers

WWII alliance between France, English, and later U.S.

Allies

German tanks and infantry

Panzer units

Germany invades Soviet Union; largest invasion in history of warfare

Operation Barbarossa

WWII conflict at sea

Battle of the Atlantic

Nazi German leader

Adolph Hitler

Fascist Italian leader

Benito Mussolini

Leader of Soviet Union after Lenin

Joseph Stalin

U.S. President FDR during Great Depression

Franklin Roosevelt

WWII Terms Flashcards

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