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president issued this designating certain areas as war zones from which anyone might be removed for any reason
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First camps were Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald
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denied German citizenship to Jews, banned marriage between Jews and non- Jews, and segregated Jews at every level of society
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"Night of the Broken Glass" ; After a Jewish refugee killed a german diplomat, Nazi officials ordered attacks on Jews in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland.
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code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb
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some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea.
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All but one member of Congress passed the motion of going to war one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Although America formally maintained neutrality up until that moment, the U.S. has long been involved in the war, providing support to the Allies.
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The destruction of the Soviet Union by military force lead to the permanent elimination of the Communist threat to Germany
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WWII measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the government
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american military base attacked by the Japanese
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temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group--> this case the Japanese men, women, and children were transported to camps
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turning point of WWII in the pacific in which the Japanese advance was stopped
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battle in Western Desert in Egypt between Axis forces (Germany and Italy
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plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms
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the Allies began their invasion of Axis-controlled Europe with landings on the island of Sicily, off mainland Italy
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lead by George S. Patton, the forces advanced east with heightened confidence while simultaneously, the British pressed westward from Egypt, trapping Axis forces in a continually shrinking pocket in Tunisia
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On this day, the last of the German forces fighting at Stalingrad surrender, despite Hitler’s earlier declaration that “Surrender is out of the question. The troops will defend themselves to the last!”
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all Nisei team that fought in the Italian campaign and become the most decorated military unit in american history and the 442nd helped counter the notion that Japanese americans were not loyal citiznes
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worked with the Red Cross to save thousands of Eastern European Jews
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the day allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France
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Hitler ordered a counterattack on Allied troops in Belgium, but it crippled Germany using up reserves and demoralizing its troops
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name now used to describe the systematic murder by the Nazis of Jews and others
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strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
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delegates from 50 nations met in San Fran to write the charter for the UN. The senate ratified the charter
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WWII altered the political realities of the world; Poland borders shifted slightly west for example
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Became president after the death of FDR and took his spot in the Big Three
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WWII changed the nation in profound ways and it ended from the surrender of the Axis powers
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US pilots dropped an atomic Bomb on Hiroshima; more than 60,000 of Hiroshima's 344,000 residents were dead or missing
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Two events rocked japan --> the soviet union declares war and invaded Manchuria and the US dropped a second atomic bomb killing 35,000 residents
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Aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan formally surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II.
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trials in which Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes
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they were supported by the UN resolution that called for the establishment of both a Jewish and a Palestinian state. President Truman recognized the new nation and were ally's with Israel
