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Pregunta | Respuesta |
What enabled the United States to have a well-equipped army and navy and brought prosperity to workers after the Depression? | High levels of deficit spending |
Selective Training and Service Act | Required men 21-36 to register with local draft boards |
War Production Board | 1942; converted peacetime industries to wartime industries |
Office of War Mobilization | Agency to centralize resources |
What increased from 8.9 billion in 1939 to 95.2 billion in 1945? | Federal spending |
Office of Price Administration | Supposed to control inflation and rationing and limit prices |
Office of War Info - 1942 | Worked with advertisers, magazines, radio stations and hired artists and writers |
Atlantic Charter | Joint declaration made by FDR and Churchill which stated the Allied goals for the post-war world |
Battle of the Atlantic | The Allied naval blockade and Germany's counter-blockade (1939-1945) |
Casablanca Conference | Meeting between FDR and Churchill in which they mapped out the rest of the war strategy |
What year does Italy surrender? | 1943 |
What year does Hitler break his pact with Stalin | 1941 |
The Battle of Stalingrad - effect | Turning point of the war in the east |
Which American general commanded the invasion of German-controlled France? | George Marshall |
Battle of the Bulge | Germans launch counterattack in Belgium and Luxembourg; smashed Americans back, forming a bulge in the Allied line |
The Yalta Conference - 1945 | FDR, Churchill, and Stalin discuss final defeat of Germany |
Holocaust | The systematic murdering of European Jews |
Who guarded the concentration camps? | SS, the major paramilitary organization under Hitler |
Kristallnacht - date and description | Nov. 9, 1938 - Nazi thugs in destroy Austrian and German stores, houses, and synagogues owned by Jews; captured Jews |
First naval combat carried out entirely by air? | Battle of Coral Sea |
Einsatzgruppen | Paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings |
Wannsee Conference - 1942 | Meeting held to ensure the cooperation of administrative leaders in the implementation of the final solution to the Jewish question, whereby most of the Jews of German-occupied Europe would be deported to Poland and murdered |
Concentration Camps | Served as prisons and enforced labor |
Nuremberg Trials | Series of 13 trials carried out in Germany between 1945 and 1949. Out of 24, 12 received death sentences. |
Bataan Death March - 1942 | Transfer to Camp O'Donnell by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war Began on April 9 |
Battle of Coral Sea - 1942 - outcomes | Prevented Japanese from invading Australia; a draw |
Battle of Guadalcanal 1942-1943 (Two firsts) | First taste of jungle warfare; first piece of Japanese land conquered by Allies |
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944 (3) | Permitted U.S. control of Philippines ; first battle with kamikazes; destroyed much of the remaining Japanese surface fleet |
Battle of Okinawa 1945 | Largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II; last obstacle to Japanese invasion |
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