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AP US History Vocab 11
AP US History Vocabulary 11
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isolationist group which insisted that the US stay out of WW2
America First Committee
fall 1941 agreement between FDR and Winston Churchill which stated that the US and Britain
would support a postwar world
Atlantic Charter
began in spring 1941 with the sinking of an American merchant vessel by a German submarine
Battle of the Atlantic
forced march of 76,000 American and Filipino soldiers captured by the Japanese at the Bataan
Peninsula in May 1942
Bataan Death March
December 1944 German attack was the last major offensive by the Axis powers in WW2
Battle of the Bulge
May 1942 American naval victory over the Japanese prevented the Japanese from attacking
Australia
Battle of the Coral Sea
on June 6, 1944, Allied forces landed in Normandy in France
D-Day
WW2 policy supported by several prominent black newspapers: blacks in America should work
for victory overseas and at home
Double V Campaign
name of the American bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1944
Enola Gay
plan of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany to eliminate Jews from Europe
Final Solution
four fundamental principles for which the US stood in a world at war laid out by FDR in 1941
Four Freedoms
popular term for American servicemen during WW2
GI
the battle over this Pacific island lasted from August 1942 through February 1943
Battle of Guadalcanal
historical term used for the extermination of 6 million Jewish victims by Nazi Germany during
WW2
Holocaust
the controversial decision to intern Japanese-American living on the West Coast in camps was
made after Pearl Harbor
Internment Camps