Chapter 17 history test

separating from the European Countries to prevent future wars

• In 1921
• Hosted by the US
• focused on naval disarmament and Pacific security
• Organized by Secretary of state Charles Hughes

• called for a ten year naval holiday during which no battleships or battle cruisers would be built
• signed by Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy

• a treaty with Great Britian, France, Japan, and the US
• pledging to respect one another's territory in the Pacific Ocean

countries competing to build up their military faster

62 nations agreed that they would never make war again

laws passed in the 1930's to prevent US involvement in another war

Benito Mussolini

political movement characterized by the belief that the country/state is more important than the people and that a nation should have a strong centralized government headed by a dictator

Joseph Stalin

a government with a dictator with total control of everything

Political party created in Germany by Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

hatred of jews

instituted by Hitler in 1935 to deprive Jews of their German Citizenship and authorized the destruction of Jews

Francisco Franco

provided 16.5 million men to the armed forces between the ages of 18 and 45

• headed by Ovetta Hobby 
• they worked as nurses, drove vehicles, and ferried planes in order to free men for active duty

ordered all Japanese Americans away from Army Military Facility in the US

a person who was born in America and had never left America but had Japanese decent so they were hated

1944 Supreme Court ruled that the relocation of Japanese Americans was constitutional

series of attacks by US sailors against hispanics in Los Angeles

symbol of the Patriotic Female Defense Worker

supervised the conversion of industry from peacetime to wartime production

using less or limiting the number that a person can use

US Army Chief of Staff

allied commander in Europe

turning point in WWII in Europe

code name given to the invasion of Northern Africa

leader of German Troops in North Africa

• June 6,1944 
• largest Amphibian assault in US history

the last major German offensive movement in December of 1944

Roosevelt wins 4th quote

• May 8,1945
• America Wins War

allied commander in the Pacific during World War II

first navy battle with no ship-to-ship contact

WWII strategy in the pacific where you bypass the unimportant island to defeat Japan

Japanese suicide planes

• June 22, 1945 
• Japan used 1,900 Kamakazi attack
• 110,000 japanese troops die 
• US wins

Island in the Pacific that was critical for US to win

• code name for the building of the atonic bomb
• by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

• the city of Hiroshima the atomic bomb "Little Boy"
• in 43 sec. the city collapsed and 71,000 died instantly

the city Nagasaki the atomic bomb "Fatman" leveled half the city

victory in Japan, took over Japan unconditionally for five years on September 2, 1945

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Great Britain, France, Russia, and US

Sudetanland and Czechoslovakia would be Germany's last territorial gain

peacetime Prime Minister of Great Britian

the policy of giving in the demands of a hostile power to keep peace

wartime Prime Minister of Great Britian

investigated why US went to WWI found money as the answer

the bombing of a US navy gunboat on the Yangtzee River

an agreement no to attack each other

WWII began when Germany invaded Poland

• FDR- Democrat and won
• Wendell Willkie-Republican

law passed in 1941 that allowed the US to offer weapons and supplies to the Allied powers during WWII

• "lightening war"
• airplanes, tanks, and then men

• Secret meeting between FDR and Churchill on a warship off the coast of Newfoundland
• agreed that people had the right to choose their own government

Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor bringing the US into WWII