unit 6 vocabulary

fascism

• Germany , ITaly and spain were under a fascism .

appeasment

• the policy of making concessions to the dictatorial powers in order to avoid conflict

Blitzkrieg

• A German term for “lightning war,” blitzkrieg is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower.

Embargo

• A governmental restriction on trade for political purposes.

2nd Great Migration

• the Second Great Migration was the migration of more than five million African Americans from the South to the North

Four Freedoms Of Speech

• Four kinds of freedom mentioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a speech in 1941 as worth fighting for: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fea

Hemispheric Defense Zone

• President Roosevelt developed the hemispheric defense zone, which declared the entire western half of the Atlantic as part of the Western Hemisphere and therefore neutral

Pearl Harbor

• A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships

Rationing

• a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage

Victory Gardens

• victory gardens was a garden that helped you save and ration food for the solders at war and for civilions.

Double V Campaign

• Segregation and discrimination had reached a point that was no longer tolerable, and according to the Pittsburgh Courier, it was time for a campaign.

Zoot Suit Riots

• The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of racial attacks in 1943 during World War II that broke out in Los Angeles, California, during a period when many migrants arrived for the defense effort .

Bracero Program

• The Bracero Program (named for the Spanish term bracero, meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements

Doolittle Raid

• The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on Saturday, April 18, 1942, was an air raid by the United States of America on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu island during World War II, the first air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands

Island Hopping

• or island hopping, was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific

Operation Torch

• was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942.

Operation Overlord

• Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II.

Manhattan Project

• The code name for the effort to develop atomic bombs for the United States during World War II

V-E Day

• the day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945

V-J Day

• the day (August 15) in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day (September 2) when Japan formally surrendered.

Franklin D Roosevelt

• a Democratic politician who became the 32nd US President (1933-45), also known informally as FDR, and the only one to be elected four time

Adolf Hitler

• (1889–1945), Austrian-born Nazi leader, Chancellor of Germany

Joseph Stalin

• Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR

Douglas MacArthur

• was an American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II

Winston Churchill

• An English political leader and author of the twentieth century; he became prime minister shortly after World War II began and served through the end of the war in Europe

George Patton

• a senior US Army officer during World War II. His popular name was 'Old Blood and Guts'. After D-Day General Patton led the US 3rd Army rapidly through France and into Germany

DWIGHT Eisenhower

• general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United State

Harry S Truman

• A political leader of the twentieth century. A Democrat, Truman was president from 1945 to 1953. In 1944, after representing Missouri in the Senate, Truman was elected vice president under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and became president when Roosevelt died.

Rosie The Riveter

• is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies

Tuskegee Air Men

• popular name of a group of African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II.

Navajo Code Talkers

• were a group of Native Americans who served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II.

442nd Regiment

• is an infantry regiment of the United States Army, part of the Army Reserve. The regiment was a fighting unit composed almost entirely of American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II

Neutrality Acts

• were laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars

Lend Lease act

• the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941

Executive Order 9066

• was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans Ancestors

Korematsu vs United states

• was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship.