Hint | Answer |
making nice in order to avoid a conflict | |
imprisonment of people without trial; this was used in Europe by the Nazi's primarily against Jews, and also by the United States government against Japanese, Germans, and Italians | |
Event that took place from 1939-1945 | |
1939 laws designed to keep the United States out of future wars | |
941 speech by FDR in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor; 'A day that will live in _____' | |
__________ v. United States; 1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. | |
Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japanese aircraft on December 7, 1941. The sinking of much of the U.S. Pacific Fleet brought the United States into World War II. | |
Invasion led Dwight D. Eisenhower, started in Normandy, on june 6th 1944, was a success, turing point of WWII, first time allied forces successfully set foot in europe | |
Type of bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
WWII strategy of conquering only certain Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan | |
Code name for the development of the atomic bomb | |
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945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war | |
American military leaders of WW2 (He liberated the Philippines; came up with 'island hopping strategy' | |
The US president who followed Truman. After election he immediately signed an armistice and ended the Korean War. He was the army general who led D-Day. | |
A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, mentally, physically disabled | |
Series of trials in 1945 conducted by an International Military Tribunal in which former Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crime | |
The president who presided over the end of World War II (ordered droppings of atomic bombs); ' Tried to stop spread of communism | |
A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition | |
Agreement that the USA would lend equipment to the UK during the war, in exchange for the lease of bases in the West Indies. | |
A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe. | |
1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey | |
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