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Adolf Hitler
This dictator was the leader of the Nazi Party. He believed that strong leadership was required to save Germanic society, which was at risk due to Jewish, socialist, democratic, and liberal forces.
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FDR
FDR was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He had a house called the "Little White house" in Georgia. -
Axis Powers/ Allied Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan were Axis powers. Great Britain, The United States, China, and the Soviet Union were all Allied powers. -
US Neutrality (lend lease, "cash and carry"
The act allowed America to sell, lend or lease arms or other supplies to nations considered "vital to the defense of the United States." This caused a problem later in the war because all of the US's old machines were left for themselves. -
Conservation/Rationing/Factory production
Taking items that are in short supply and distributing them according to a system. For instance, during World War II, gas, sugar, and butter were a few of the items rationed in the United States.During WWII, FDR established it to allocated scarce materials, limited or stopped the production of civilian goods, and distributed contracts among competing manufacturers -
Rosie the Riveter/woman in the workplace
Rosie the Riveter was the star of a campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for defense industries during World War II, and she became perhaps the most iconic image of working women. American women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers during the war, as widespread male enlistment left gaping holes in the industrial labor force -
African American Discrimination (A. Phillip Randolph)
Proposed to march on Washington for civil rights for blacks in US. restricted to racially segregated neighborhoods
- denied basic citizenship rights
- "Just carve on my tombstone, 'Here lies a black man killed fighting a yellow man for the protection of a white man.'" -
Japanese Embargo
Responding to Japanese occupation of key airfields in Indochina (July 24) following an agreement between Japan and Vichy France. The U.S. froze Japanese assets on July 26, 1941, and on August 1 established an embargo on oil and gasoline exports to Japan. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack American naval base and air forces in Oahu; US declares war on japan, Italy and Germany declare war on US -
Internment Camps (Executive order 9066)
The forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, -
Battle of Midway/ Island hopping
U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II. -
D-Day (Operation Overlord)
Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II -
Harry Truman
Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb. He did not know about the atomic bombs because FDR left him in the dark -
Battle of Berlin (V-E day)
designated the Berlin Strategic Offensive Operation by the Soviet Union, and also known as the Fall of Berlin, was the final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II. he public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces -
Atomic Bombs/Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Two Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs to end World War II. -
Japanese Surrender (V-J day)
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war -
Manhattan Project (Einstein)
Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. Much of the early research was done in New York City by refugee physicists in the United States. -
Dwight Eisenhower
leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2--leader of troops in Africa and commander in DDay invasion-elected president-president during integration of Little Rock Central High School
