World War II Study Guide
Truman - President who decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan
Eisenhower - Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied troops in D-Day
MacArthur - General who returns to Philippians - Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific
Rommel - General in charge of Afrika Korps
Hitler - poorly educated Austrian; joined German workers party, became leader, changed name to Nazi; became Dictator of Germany
Mussolini - in Fascist Party; declared himself Dictator of Italy
Billy Mitchel - General that supported idea of Separate Air Arm (he wanted airplanes to be put into a different military unit under their own command instead of being just another weapon)
Common Good - What is good for most of the people
Causes of the war - Underlying: Treaty of Versailles, Economic Problems in Germany, Nationalism, Rise of Dictatorships, Need for Industrial Resources, Spanish Civil War - Immediate: Invasion of Poland
3 Major Axis Powers - Germany, Italy, Japan
4 Major Allied Powers - US, UK, France, USSR
Rhineland - section of Western Germany declared a Demilitarized Zone by t
Eisenhower - Supreme Allied Commander of the Allied troops in D-Day
MacArthur - General who returns to Philippians - Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific
Rommel - General in charge of Afrika Korps
Hitler - poorly educated Austrian; joined German workers party, became leader, changed name to Nazi; became Dictator of Germany
Mussolini - in Fascist Party; declared himself Dictator of Italy
Billy Mitchel - General that supported idea of Separate Air Arm (he wanted airplanes to be put into a different military unit under their own command instead of being just another weapon)
Common Good - What is good for most of the people
Causes of the war - Underlying: Treaty of Versailles, Economic Problems in Germany, Nationalism, Rise of Dictatorships, Need for Industrial Resources, Spanish Civil War - Immediate: Invasion of Poland
3 Major Axis Powers - Germany, Italy, Japan
4 Major Allied Powers - US, UK, France, USSR
Rhineland - section of Western Germany declared a Demilitarized Zone by t
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Doolittle Raid - April 1942 - surprise attack on Tokyo from USS Hornet
The Home front (life in the US during the war) - Farmers grew enough crops to feed the US and all its Allies - planes, bombers, tanks, scout cars and carriers, armored cars, trucks, light vehicles, rifles and side-arms, machine guns, artillery and ammo were produced in factories - production during the war was 75% greater than in peacetime - US financed the war by taxes and war bonds - WWII cost over $400 billion - Navajo Indians were code talkers (because their language was never written down it couldn’t be learned) - War Production Bond directed the conversion of factories from peacetime to wartime productions - gasoline, fuel, shoes, coffee, sugar, fats, oils, nuts, butter, and canned goods were rationed - 12 million African Americans, 50,000 Native Americans, and 2 million women worked on army supplies - to control prices, the government raised income taxes and encouraged Americans to buy war bonds - Nisei (native born
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