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Cash and Carry
Policy to reserve neutrality while aiding the Allies. -
Flying Tigers
Group of volunteer Americans who go to China to resist Japanese fighting. They helped give raw materials to China. -
Battle of Britain
Germany wanted power of skies over Britain, so Germany fought Britain in the sky using planes and bombs. -
Peacetime draft
Required all men between the ages 21 and 45 to register for the draft. -
Holocaust
Attempted Genocide of Jewish People by Hitler. -
Navajo Code-Talkers
Used to translate messages into a code Japanese could not understand. -
Vernon Baker
assigned to the first black unit to go into combat and won the Congressional Medal of Honor recipient for his bravery. -
Tuskegee Airmen
African American fighter group in the in the air corps. -
Lend Lease Act
Lend Supplies to Great Britain and receive land. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese revenge on U.S. for putting sanctions on them. -
Island Hopping
A military strategy employed by the allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis Powers. -
Bataan Death March
Japanese forced prisoners to undertake a 60 mile march through the jungle. -
Douglas MacAruthur
Led US army into the pacific. -
Chester W. Nimitz
In charge of Battle of Midway planned American Fleet. -
Battle of Midway
U.S. Destroyed 4 of Japan's aircraft carriers, ending Japan's naval strength in the Pacific Ocean. -
Debt of War information
OWI created pro allied anti axis propaganda. -
Rationing
Regulating the amount of goods a consumer can have. -
War Bonds
Debt securities issued by the government for the purpose of financing the military. -
Executive order 9066
FDR issues, permitted military commanders to require Japanese to relocate to camps. -
George Patton
led U.S. Third Army in North Africa and Italy -
Victory Gardens
Part of the general governments effort to encourage home food production. -
Omar Bradley
commander of all U.S ground forces after the invasion of Normandy -
Dwight Eisenhower
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe who was in charge of Normandy invasion, -
D Day
troops under command of Dwight Eisenhower landed at 5 beaches on the Northwest coast of France at Normandy -
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Japanese Americans convicted of continuing to remain in a restricted area. -
Battle of the Buldge
German attack to break Allied lines; divide forces in half and cut off Allied supplies. -
V-E Day
Germany signs unconditional surrender. -
Atomic Bomb (Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
Wanted to use the atomic bomb against Japan rather than sustain high losses; chose centers of Japanese military production as targets. -
VJ Day
Division of Japan's territorial conquests. -
Nuremberg Trials
Allied forces presided over the hearings of Nazi-criminals and sentenced many to death
