Thursday, March 14, 2019

World War II

Important Terms


Good Neighbor Policy - US as Western Hegemon

Fascism

Global competition for Oil

Neutrality Act

FDR - Quarantine Speech

Appeasement

Lend Lease Act

Arsenal of Democracy

The Blitz

12/7/1941 "A Day which will live in Infamy"

12/8/1941

Korematsu v. US

Fascism

Hitler

Nazi

1,000 Year Reich

Mussolini

Franco

Emperor Hirohito

War on Two Fronts

Africa - Desert Fox

Tunisia

Sicily

The Battle for Italy

Midway

Wake Island

Iwo Jima

Guadalcanal

Okinawa

Kamikaze/Bushido

Submarine Warfare

Meatless Tuesday/Victory Gardens

Rationing/Salvaging

Ceiling Prices

Wickard v. Filburn (1944)

"Loose Lips Sink Ships"

D-Day

Operation Overlord

Utah and Omaha Beaches

Paratroopers

General Eisenhower

General Patton

General MacArthur

Battle of the Bulge

Firebombing of Dresden

"Fat Man and Little Boy"

"Enola Gay"

Hiroshima

Nagasaki

V/E Day

V/J Day - USS Missouri

USS Indianapolis

Holocaust

Concentration Camps