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World War II
Review
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Sudetenland
Fascism
Germany took this from Czechoslovakia
Gov’t has total control, nationalistic, anti-communist
(grrr!)
Mussolini
Fascist dictator of Italy
Hitler
Fascist dictator of Germany
Nazis
Fascist party controlling Germany before/during WWII
Selective-Service Raise an army, beginning of draft
Act
Appeasement
Pearl Harbor
Lend-Lease Act
Poland
Internment
Camps
Munich
Conference
1939
1941 @ Pearl
Harbor
War Bonds/
Taxes
Price Controls
Why?
Victory Gardens
Giving into Hitler’s demand for land in hopes of peace
December 7, 1941 Brought U.S. into WWII
U.S. shipped and lent weapons to England
Germany’s invasion here started WWII 1939
Held Japanese-Americans during the war
o National security
1938 mtg: Britain and France decide to appease Hitler
Beginning of WWII in Europe
Beginning of U.S. Involvement in WWII
Helped to pay for the war
Fight inflation
Americans helped to grow more food for war effort
Rosie the Riveter Symbol of women employed in factories
WACS/WAVES
Island Hopping
Units in military in which women served as support:
Secretaries, nurses, clerks
Strategy used against the Japanese
Production Goals Set by War Production Board
Nationalism
Extreme pride in own country
Economic
Depression
Allied Powers
One cause of war
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
England, France, U.S., USSR
Stalin
Leader of USSR
Winston
Churchill
Hideki Tojo
Leader of Grt Britain during the war
Harry S.
Truman/ FDR
Manhattan
Project
D-Day
Presidents of U.S. during WWII
Battle of the
Bulge
Battle of
Stalingrad
Yalta
Conference
Battle of
Midway
Kamikazes
Last major German offensive
Dwight
Eisenhower
rationing
Pearl Harbor
Atomic bomb
Reason to drop
bomb
U.S. General in Europe
Examples of
discrimination
**Changes in
American
Foreign Policy
Leader of Japan
Led to/created the Atomic Bomb
Invasion of France at Normandy Beaches June 6, 1944
Turning point of war in Europe
Don’t need this one
Turning point of War in the Pacific
Suicide bombers attacked ships
Limiting products for war effort
Japanese Attack that brought U.S. into WWII
o End the war quickly
o Save lives in the long run
o Strong resistance of Japanese
Minority soldiers not in combat, limited to support roles,
officers could only lead other minorities
1. Isolation 1930s:
2. Economic Aid: To England: lend-lease
3. Direct Involvement:
 Before the war we started the Draft and
 Began to increase size of our military.