Chapter 17 World War II
Essential Question How did the United States use its resources to win World War II? 5/29/2019
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps U.S. Army unit created during World War II to enable women to serve in noncombat positions. 5/29/2019
Rationing A restriction of peoples’ right to buy unlimited amounts of particular food and other goods, often implemented during wartime to ensure adequate supplies for the military. 5/29/2019
Supreme U.S. Commander in Europe. Dwight D. Eisenhower Supreme U.S. Commander in Europe. 5/29/2019
D-Day The date for an invasion to occur. (June 6, 1944) 5/29/2019
V-E Day Victory in Europe. May 8, 1945. 5/29/2019
Harry S. Truman President that ordered the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan. 5/29/2019
George Patton One of the U.S. Army's and America's greatest commanding Generals . When Third Army was moved to France, in July of 1944, they began a great dash across France. The Germans launched their last great offensive of the war - the Battle of the Bulge. 5/29/2019
Stalingrad Turning point of WWII in Europe where the Soviets lost 1.1 million soldiers more than all American deaths during the entire war. 5/29/2019
Tuskegee Airmen Known as “Red Tails”. All-black 99th Pursuit Squadron. 5/29/2019
Kamikaze Suicide-plane means “divine wind.” 5/29/2019
Hiroshima City where the first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. Killed 70,000 and injured 69,000. 5/29/2019
Douglas MacArthur Was one of America’s greatest military leaders who was instrumental in defeating the Japanese in World War II and presided over the rebuilding of Japan after the war. 5/29/2019
Battle of Midway Was the turning point in the Pacific War. 5/29/2019
Navajo Code Talkers Native Americans who used their language to transmit messages which the Japanese were unable to decode. 5/29/2019
Iwo Jima Means “sulfur island.” Defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, and it was attacked by three marine divisions after elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment (sixty-eight hundred tons of bombs, twenty-two thousand shells). American losses included 5,900 dead and 17,400 wounded. 5/29/2019
Manhattan Project U.S. government research project (1942–45) that produced the first atomic bombs. 5/29/2019
Robert Oppenheimer Appointed as technical director of the Manhattan Project. Under his guidance, the creation of the first atomic bomb occurred. 5/29/2019
Nagasaki On August 9, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the second atomic bomb on this city. 5/29/2019
Nuremburg Trials The general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in crimes committed during the Holocaust of World War II. 5/29/2019
GI Bill of Rights Called Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, U.S. legislation passed in 1944 that provided benefits to World War II veterans. 5/29/2019
Internment The forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country. 5/29/2019
Japanese American Citizens League The mission is to secure and maintain the civil rights of Japanese Americans and all others victimized by injustice and bigotry. 5/29/2019
Rosie the Riveter A fictional character featured in a propaganda campaign created by the U.S. government to encourage white middle class women to work outside the home during World War II. 5/29/2019
Enola Gay The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. 5/29/2019
Fat Man Name of the bomb dropped over Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, near the end of World War II. 5/29/2019
Little Boy The first atomic bomb used against Japan in World War II, detonated over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 5/29/2019
James Doolittle Led the raid on Tokyo on 18 April 1942, was first time the U.S. had attacked the main islands of Japan. 5/29/2019
Victory in Japan. August 15, 1945 V-J Day Victory in Japan. August 15, 1945 5/29/2019
Island Hopping A strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the Pacific. 5/29/2019