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US History WWII Test Part 2

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This deck covers key events, strategies, and figures from World War II, focusing on the Pacific Theater and significant wartime programs and symbols.

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allies strike back against Tokyo - suicide mission!; april 1942; 80 volunteers - only 3 killed; no military significance but boosted American morale!

the Doolittle raid; Col. James Doolittle
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allies strike back against Tokyo - suicide mission!; april 1942; 80 volunteers - only 3 killed; no military significance but boosted American morale!
the Doolittle raid; Col. James Doolittle
major naval/air Battle; the US fleet stops the invasion of Australia; Admiral Chester Nimitz; may 1942
Battle of the Coral Sea
major naval battle; june 1942; US defeats the Japanese and stops their invasion of Hawaii and the West Coast; most important naval battle of US history!; turning point battle in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
American strategy to win the Pacific theater; conquer island after island, getting closer to Japan (to later build a base and attack)
island hopping
battle to control the airfield; 1942; first major island taken from Japan
Battle of Guadalcanal
the two theaters (areas of operation) during WWII
the Pacific Theater (US Marines and Navy) + the European/African Theater (US Army and Airforce)
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US History WWII Test Part 2
TermDefinition
allies strike back against Tokyo - suicide mission!; april 1942; 80 volunteers - only 3 killed; no military significance but boosted American morale!
the Doolittle raid; Col. James Doolittle
major naval/air Battle; the US fleet stops the invasion of Australia; Admiral Chester Nimitz; may 1942
Battle of the Coral Sea
major naval battle; june 1942; US defeats the Japanese and stops their invasion of Hawaii and the West Coast; most important naval battle of US history!; turning point battle in the Pacific
Battle of Midway
American strategy to win the Pacific theater; conquer island after island, getting closer to Japan (to later build a base and attack)
island hopping
battle to control the airfield; 1942; first major island taken from Japan
Battle of Guadalcanal
the two theaters (areas of operation) during WWII
the Pacific Theater (US Marines and Navy) + the European/African Theater (US Army and Airforce)
what were American soldiers called?
GI's (Government Issued)
what were the gardens called that people were required to have; grow food for the war
Victory Gardens
what was the symbol of women in the workforce
"Rosie the Riveter"
what program permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the US on short-term contracts
Bracero Program
two ways the US paid for the war
1) war bonds - loans given to the gov. by movie stars/entertainers 2) income tax
what was the systematic mass slaughter of the Jews and other "undesirables" called and who lead it?
the Holocaust lead by Heinrich Himmler (head of the SS)
what was Hitlers "final solution" programs?
1) Immigration - make life so bad, they leave the country; failed: during the GD, countries weren't allowing much immigration; 2) Mobile Death Squads (Einsatz) - the undesirables were forced to dig trenches, then machine-gunned to death; failed: destroyed soldiers morale; 3) Ghettos - Jews rounded up and held captive, worked with little food (starved to death); failed: too slow, Jews will to live was strong!; 4) Death Camps/Gas Chambers - Jews gassed in "showers" and cremated; 11 million people killed! (6 million Jews)
people who spoke out against the evil of the Holocaust and helped the "undesirables"
1) Corrie Ten Boom - Dutch Christian who hid Jews 2) Dietrich Bonhoeffer - German Protestant Pastor who gave his life saving Jews 3) Oskar Schindler - businessman who gave his life saving Jews ("Shindler's List") 4) Anne Frank - Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding (later sent to camp + killed)
three types of concentration camps
1) POW camps (Stalags) - mostly in Germany (4% death rate) 2) Work camps - used slave labor to help the German war effort (many worked to death - 15% death rate) 3) Death camps - used to exterminate people! (all six located in Poland - 80% death rate)