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8th Grade
03/25/2010

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Neutrality Acts
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Law passed in August 1935. Designed to keep U.S out of war with Europe by banning the shipment of war materials to other countries.
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Good Neighbor Policy
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Established by Franklin D. Roosevelt for dealing with Latin America in 1933; intended to halt direct intervention in Latin American politics.
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Lend-Lease Act
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Passed on March 11, 1941, the Lend-Lease act gave President Roosevelt the power to ship weapons, food, or equipment to any country whose fight against Axis powers needed U.S assistance
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Nazi-Soviet Pact
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A treaty made between the Soviet Union and Germany, stating that neither of the countries would attack eachother. The treaty lasted for only 2 years. 8 years less then its planned 10.
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Joseph Stalin
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Russian Leader during World War 2
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Harry Truman
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Elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan
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D-Day
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June 6th, 1944, when the Allies invaded Western Europe
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Enola Gay
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The B-29 superfortress bomber,that dropped the first atomic bomb code-named "Little Boy" to be used in war by the United States in the attack on Hiroshima, Japan
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Nuremberg Trials
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After the war, when the Allies brought war criminals of the Axis powers to trials. The men trialed were tried for their barbaric, international crimes against humanity.
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Potsdam Declaration
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Issued on July 26, 1945 where the Allies threatened Japan. Stating that if they did not surrender they would face "complete and utter destruction"
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Munich Conference
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Meeting concerning Germany's occupation of portions of Czechoslovakia in 1938; after receiving Hitler's assurances that he would take no more land, Western leaders agreed to the division of Czechoslovakia
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Axis
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the Axis powers originally included Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan who signed a pact in Berlin on September 27, 1940. They were later joined by Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, and Slovakia.
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Allies
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The nations fighting Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II; primarily the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.
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Tuskegee Airmen
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The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces
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Rosie the Riveter
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Fictional Woman that represented the hard labor working, yet lady like women during WW2
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Operation Overlord
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Operation Overlord was the code-name given to the Allied invasion of France scheduled for June 1944. The overall commander of Operation Overlord was General Dwight Eisenhower
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Battle of Midway
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Naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands
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Douglas MacArthur
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United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II; he accepted the surrender of Japan
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Fat Man
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The atomic bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki, Japan by the U.S on August 9th, 1945
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Robert Oppenheimer
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United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb
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Dictator
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a ruler who is unconstrained by law
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Totalitarianism
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a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc
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Scapegoat
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someone who is punished for the errors of others
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Blitzkrieg
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a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment
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Island Hopping
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War tactic used by the U.S. Hopped the Japanese Islands to confuse them
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Appeasement
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The process of reducing to a state of peace, often by satisfying demands even of potential enemies, in order to achieve or maintain peace, often at the expense of principle.
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Rationing
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restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war
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Il Duce
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Nickname of Benito Mussolini
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Bataan Death March
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A 60 mile journey across the Phillipines that the Japanese forced their P.O.W to do
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Fascism
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•A system of government that promotes extreme nationalism, repression, anticommunism, and is ruled by a dictator
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Soviet Union
Definition
part of the Allied powers
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Pearl Harbor
Definition
•A sneak attack, often using underhanded measures; A seminal dramatic event that unites a community and arouses it into action against an enemy; Deep water harbor on Oahu, Hawai
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Atlantic Charter
Definition
Joint declaration made by Roosevelt and Churchill in August 1941, setting out broad principles for the conduct of international relations in the postwar world. Drawn up at sea, off the coast of Newfoundland, it provided a foundation for the United Nations Charter. Its eight principles included non-aggression, self-determination, free trade, freedom of the seas, and renunciation of territorial expansion
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Kamikazes
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Japanese suicide bombers
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Auschwitz
Definition
a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War 2
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Victory Gardens
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Victory Gardens were cultivated soon after rationing was put into effect. They were small gardens of vegetables which provided some food in place of those items which were rationed by the government. In addition to their practical aspects, victory gardens also cultivated morale by showing civilian support for the war effort
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Relocation Camps
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camps where the U.S placed Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Audie Murphy
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Most decorated War hero, USA
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Battle of the Bulge
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Where Germans pushed the U.S back into a bulge like shape. The U.S pushed back and won. Ardennes Mountains region of Belgium
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Battle of Britain
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•The extended German bombing of British cities from July 1940 to early 1941 in which British survived heavy attacks
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Little Boy
Definition
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945
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