History Exam 3, 2
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- Allied Powers
- United Kingdom, France, Soviet Union, United States, China
- Emperor Hirohito of Japan
- Emperor of Japan. He wants to increase consumption and ditch the open door policy to get China. He also builds up the navy
- V-E day of May 8, 1945
- Victory of Europe
- Munich Conference of Sept. 1938
- P.M. Neville Chamberlain met with Hitler and asked him to stop taking over other countries. Hitler agreed but 6 months later took over rest of Czech.
- Operation Fortitude
- George S. Patton led this operation into Germany to find Hitler and the others toward Berlin
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
- in charge of European zone
- Executive Order 9066 of Feb. 1942
- put Japanese in internment caps. About 120,000 were in the camps
- Axis Powers
- Germany, Italy, and Japan
- Admiral yamamoto
- Commander in Chief of the Japanese Fleet.
- Atomic bomb of Nagasaki of Aug. 9, 1945
- Second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
- V-J Day of Sept. 1945
- Victory over Japan
- Liberation of Nazi concentration camps
- Americans go to concentration camps to let the people free and we make the germans walk through them to see what their leader had done.
- Tripartile Pact of Sept. 1940
- Italy, Germany, and Japan came upon an agreement to help each other out when attacked
- "Appeasement"
- give leader what he wants so he will not retaliate
- Lend-Lease Program of March 1941
- the authorization of military supplies or anything else to countries who we fancied
- Good Neighbor Policy
- FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rater than military force in the region
- Josef Stalin of Soviet Union
- Communist leader of Soviet union. Did not like capitalism
- Atomic bomb of Hiroshima of Aug. 6, 1945
- First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
- Battle of Britain of Aug.-Oct. 1940
- Hitler wanted to take over Britain. Hitler eventually gave up.
- Rape of Nanking of 1937
- Japanese invaded China and raped the women and took all the resources of the land
- Enigma Machine
- machine that made codes for Hitler. He thought we hadn't broken it but we had
- Battle of Midway of June 1942
- put the allies back in power. The U.S broke the code so they knew they were going to midway.
- Manhattan Project
- research for nuclear weapons, it was in Los Alimos, NM
- Benito Mussolini of Italy
- hated communism and wanted a roman empire, taking over the mediterranian
- Non-Aggression Pact of Aug. 1939
- was between Germany and Soviet Union. They won't invade each other and gets half of Poland
- Battle of the Bulge of Dec. 1944-Jan. 1945
- last attempt to weaken allied forces. We beat germany and had a clear path to Berlin
- Attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941
- Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
- Nye Committee of 1934
- set up to study the causes of why the U.S was in WWI
- Yalta conference of Feb. 1945
- Churchill, FDR, and Stalin met again to see who gets to take revenge on Berlin. Stalin gets to after he agrees to help fight japan.
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
- P.M. of Britain. Asked U.S for credit and escorts for British merchant ships.
- Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
- one who met with Hitler at the munich conference to sort things out with Hitler's reckless acts
- Operation Overlord of June 4, 1944
- tricked the germans into thinking two invasions would happen where they wouldn't
- Security Council
- made up of U.S, Great Britain, France, China, and Russia. More powerful than the General Assembly
- Tehran conference of Dec. 1943
- Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill, and FDR meet here in Iran to talk about operation overlord
- Walter Millis's The Road to War of 1935
- suggests that Great Britain and France made Germany look worse than they were
- Invasion of Poland of September 1, 1939
- was by Hitler and this starts WWII
- Harry S. Truman
- comes into office after FDR dies
- Atlantic Charter of August 1941
- list of principles to be upheld to keep fascist countries away.
- U.N. General Assembly
- was made up of different countries that can have a representative sit in at the meetings to discuss things
- "Atomic Diplomacy"
- to control other countries out of fear we might use it on them
- General Douglass MacArthur
- Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific
- Neutrality Act of 1939
- was a way to give weapons and ammunition to cash paying countries.
- fascism
- the needs and interests of an individual is not as important as the needs and interests of the government
- D-Day of June 6, 1944
- Invasion of Normandy
- Adolf Hitler
- appointed chancellor of Germany. He didn't like Communism and Jews