Unit 7

unit 7: us history

  • Winston Churchill

    Winston Churchill

    A british politician, led a country that was bombarded almost daily by German planes; advocate of democracy and patriotism.
  • Bebito Mussolini

    Bebito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party, ruling the country from 1922 to his ousting in 1943. allied with Germany.
  • Harry S. Truman

    Harry S. Truman

    33rd president of the United states and he succsefully concluded WW2
  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
  • U.S. declares Neutrality

    U.S. declares Neutrality

    The U.S. wanted to stay out of the war even sent out money to Great Britian.
  • Vernon Baker

    Vernon Baker

    Another famous and highly decorated solider, Medal of Honor recipient
  • Audie Murphy

    Audie Murphy

    decorated wwII soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, and movie star
  • Rape of Nanking

    Rape of Nanking

    the mass rape and murder of chinese citizens by Japanese soliders.
  • Fascism

    Fascism

    An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization
  • Nazism

    Nazism

    The ideology and practice of the Nazis, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy.
  • Dictator

    Dictator

    A dictator is a ruler who assumes sole and absolute power but not officially sanctioned by heritage, as in an absolute monarch
  • Lend Lease Act

    Lend Lease Act

    America mass created machines and war weapons for other countries to lend and lease.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    the bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan
  • Japanese-American Interment Camps

    Japanese-American Interment Camps

    immediate cause for the US entry into WWII; considered by FDR as the a "date which will live in infamy"
  • Propaganda

    Propaganda

    trying to get others interested in an event or guilt trip them into doing in the good of others
  • War Bonds and Rationaling

    War Bonds and Rationaling

    A way for America to make money off war.
  • Womens Roles in  WWII

    Womens Roles in WWII

    Women were finally able to work in "manly" jobs.
  • Office of War information

    Office of War information

    was a U.S. government agency created during World War II to consolidate government information services
  • Victory Gardens

    Victory Gardens

    all different types of people in all types of communites were able to help the war effort this way
  • Firebooming of Dresden

    Firebooming of Dresden

    was an attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, that took place in the final months of the Second World War.