United States as a World Power.

The prime minister of Britain from 1937 to 1940 who advocated a policy of satisfaction toward the territorial demands of Nazi Germany. This satisfaction policy essentially turned a blind eye to Germany’s 1938 annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland.

The prime minister of Britain during most of World War 2. Churchill was among the most active leaders in resisting German attack and played a major role in getting together the Allied Powers, including the United States and the USSR.

General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. In some ways, Stalin was responsible for the USSR’s severe losses at the beginning of World War II, as he failed to head the warnings of his advisors and did not allow the Russian military to prepare a proper defense

In 1939, under the encouragement of Szilárd, Einstein sent a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt urging the study of nuclear fission for military purposes, under fears that the Nazi government would be first to develop atomic weapons. Roosevelt started a small investigation into the matter which eventually became the massive Manhattan Project. Einstein himself did not work on the bomb project

Pulled together an Armed Forces that could fight a two front war. e was able to get good fighting men trained and the forces supplied, He also helped with the strategies of many operations. His work contributed to the victory of the Allies. Later he created the Marshall Plan to help restore Europe and plans for the Cold War.

The 32nd U.S. president, who led the country through the bulk of World War II until his death from a cerebral hemorrhage in April 1945, just a few months before the war ended. Together with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, Roosevelt played a decisive role in holding together the Allied alliance that ultimately defeated Nazi Germany.

He established the Kaiser Shipyard which built Liberty Ships during World War 2.

Fascist prime minister who came to power in 1922 and ruled Italy as an absolute dictator. In many ways, Mussolini served as an inspiration to Adolf Hitler, with whom he chose to ally himself during World War II. In 1943, Mussolini was overthrown in a action coordinated by some of his assistants and in 1945 he was executed by Italian accessory just prior to the end of the war in Europe.

Japanese Marshell and the commander in chief of the Combined Fleet during World War 2. Responsible for major attacks of Pearl Harbor and Midway

Led the country through the last few months of World War II, is best known for making the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against Japan in August 1945.

a general in the United States Army best known for his command of the 7th United States Army, and later the 3rd United States Army, in the Europeans of World War II.

He organized a march of 100,000 people to unsegregate the American Armed Forces. FDR passed the Fair Labor Act which illegalized dicrimination in industries, but failed in desegregating the Armed Forces. Because of this legislation, the huge march was cancelled and African-Americans settled for the Fair Labor Act.

Founder and leader of the Nazi Party and the most influential voice in the organization and execution of the Holocaust and the extermination of ethnic clear of 6 million European Jews and millions of other non-aryans.

A U.S. Army general who held the position of supreme Allied commander in Europe, among many others. Eisenhower was perhaps best known for his work in planning Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Europe. After the war, he was a very popular figure in the United States and was elected to two terms as U.S. president, taking office in 1953.

A German Field Marshall of World War 2.His assignment was to prepare the "Western Wall" againist the Allies D-day invasion. He was wounded by an enemy aircraft while in a car and when he spent some time in the hospital, he made a plot to assassinate Hitler. He got arrested and shot.

a senior U.S. Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War 2, and a General of the Army in the United States Army. Bradley had command of all US ground forces invading Germany from the westhe ultimately commanded 43 divisions and 1.3 million men, the largest body of American soldiers ever to serve under a US field commander

A U.S. Army general best known for leading the famous “Doolittle Raid” in 1942, in which B-25 bombers were launched from an aircraft carrier to bomb Japan and then crash-landed in China.

Emperor of Japan from 1926 until his death in 1989. Despite the power of Japan’s military leaders, many scholars believe that Hirohito took an active role in leading the country and shaping its combat strategy during World War II. After Japan’s defeat, he was allowed to continue to hold his position as emperor. Despite the fact that Japan was under U.S. occupation. Although many countries favored it, Hirohito was never tried for war crimes.

Hitler commited suicide by gunshot in Berlin and negotiations started for surrender and the war was over. Another was the atomic power in Japan when the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki to take over their military islands.

Camps built by Nazi Germany during World War 2 to kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under starvation conditions. Jews were the main targets.

During World War 2, penicillin made a major difference in the number of deaths and the amputations caused by infected wounds among Allied forces saving an estimate of 12%-15% lives.

With the onset of World War II, numerous challenges confronted the American people. The government found it necessary to ration food, gas, and even clothing during that time. Americans were asked to conserve on everything. With not a single person unaffected by the war, rationing meant sacrifices for all.

Perhaps the most famous example of a two-front war was the Europeans during World War II, when Hitler's Nazi Germany had to deal with the Western Allies on the west and the Soviet Union to the east. The Germans were unable to beat either of the two front's advances and eventually lost the war. While there were other assigning factors, such as the insufficiency of the Wehrmacht for a long war, and the abandonment of blitzkrieg tactics due to fuel shortages and a rising need to defend territory, the two-front war was an important factor in deciding when the German military would be forced to surrender.

Debt securities issued by a government for the purpose of financing military operations during times of war. The last time the United States issued war bonds was during World War II, when full employment collided with rationing, and war bonds were seen as a way to remove money from circulation as well as reduce inflation.

Women, besided being placed in more skilled jobs than they were used to in non-war times as mechanics, engineers, reseachers, eletricians.In 1942 the Women's Army Corps was created, and women were sent overseas to combat fields. In 1940 the Select Service Act was passed and African-americas could enlist in all branches of the armed forces, composing finally 11% of the manpower, regardless of the discrimination that still was directed to them. Thousands of Hispanics also fought on the war, Mexican and Puerto Ricans mainly. At least 33,000 Japanese-americans participated in the war, too. They had the most decorated unit in US history, when after 1943 they won the right to enlist

A project to develop and produce atomic weapons during World War 2. This project started in April 1939 after the discovery of nuclear fission in January 1939 but ended due to the German invasion of Poland.

The Allies maintained pressure of Axis power by using an air power to occupy Europe and to invade them and then the Allies took Europe from North Africa.

The longest military campaign in World War 2 to defeat Germany.

The war in Africa was to play a key role in the overall success of the Allies in World War Two. By 1941, the Italian army had been all but beaten and Hitler had to send German troops to North Africa to clear out Allied troops. The German force was lead by Erwin Rommel.

The largest German military operation of World War 2; the end to the Communist threat to Germany and the seizure of the best land within Soviet borders.

The term used by Nazis to describe their program of mass murder of the Jewish people. The Nazi's undercover of the war, developed the technology, authority, and attitude of hate to successfully murder millions of Jews. All Jews in Germany and the occupied countries were deported to sealed ghettos as a holding area. Many were then shipped in cattle cars to labor camps where they lived under brutally inhuman conditions. Hundreds of thousands were sent directly to the gas chambers in death camps.

"A date in which we lived in infamy"
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. By bombing the navy, they managed to cripple any efforts at an attack force following them immediately to retaliate. The Japanese were trying to get oil restriction lifted on terms that would still let them take the territory they wanted & to prepare for war.

The Relocation and internment of the US government; about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese that lives along the Pacific Coast were sent to War Relocation Camps in the wake of the Pearl Harbor Attack.

A research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs used in World War 2.

The women's branch of the US Army. It was established by Congress to enlist women for auxiliary noncombat duty for World War 2. By 1945 nearly 150,000 women had served. Women relieved thousands of men and had jobs like radio operator, electrician and air traffic controller.After the war the government requested former servicewomen to reenlist to meet the staffing needs of army hospitals and administrative centres. The WAC became part of the regular army with the passage of the 1948 Women's Armed Services Integration Act. The WAC remained a separate unit of the U.S. Army until 1978, when male and female forces were integrated.

An agency of the US government, which supervised production of war purposes of World War 2.

Fight near the Central Pacific island of Midway, is considered the decisive battle of the war in the Pacific. Before this battle the Japanese were on the offensive, capturing territory throughout Asia and the Pacific. By their attack, the Japanese had planned to capture Midway to use as an advance base, as well as to entrap and destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Because of communication intelligence successes, the U.S. Pacific Fleet surprised the Japanese forces, sinking the four Japanese carriers, that had attacked Pearl Harbor only six months before, while only losing of one carrier. After Midway, the Americans and their Allies took the offensive in the Pacific.

a major and decisive battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in the southwestern Soviet Union.

Erwin Rommel didn't really surrender because his army in North Africa, after winning battles repeatedly weren't able to persuade Hitler to provide him with war materials that he asked for after Germany launched their war against the Soviet Union.

The day on which the Allied invasion of France versus the Normandy coast began.

A major German offensive launched through the forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front towards the end of World War 2. Bugle means "Salient" which is a military term for a battle line that moves in on their enemy.

On April 30, 1945, as Russian troops fought to within yards of his subterranean bunker, Adolph Hitler put a pistol to his head, pulled the trigger and closed the curtain on the Third Reich. Before his death, Hitler elected Admiral Karl Donitz as his successor with orders to continue the fighting. Hitler was unaware that the German surrender had already begun.
On the day before his death all German troops in Italy laid down their arms. On May 4, German forces in Holland, Denmark and northwest Germany surrendered to British Field Marshall Montgomery.

A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for an captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The Americans wanted to take the whole island and its 3 airfields to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This battle was the bloodiest fighting of the War of the Pacific of World War 2

the Soviet and Polish forces fought door-to-door to take the German capital. On April 30, the bunker of the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, came under attack and he committed suicide.

*The term "Battle of Berlin" is also applied to the British bombing campaign of November 1943 to May 1944.

was the public holiday celebrated on May 8, 1945 to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, ending the war in Europe.

Conducted by the US in the final stages of World War 2. This event was the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date. The blast destroyed more than ten kilometers of the city. Hiroshima was chosen because it had not been targeted during the US Air Force's conventional bombing raids on Japan, and was therefore regarded as being a suitable place to test the effects of an atomic bomb. It was also an important military base. The Allies feared that any conventional attempt to invade the Japanese home islands would result in enormous casualties, and the bomb was seen as a way of bringing the war against Japan to a abrupt conclusion. In addition, it may also have been a way of demonstrating American military superiority over the Soviet Union.

An agency that allows men to be allowed to go into the military

Mainly the Irish Protestants and the Catholics of Ireland who were fed up with British power for being involved in their country.

The Triple Entente which involved France, Britain and Russia made a pact. Following after that was the Triple Alliance, which involved Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey.

Chemical Warfare was used during World War 1. It was first used in World War 1 due to the slow steady movement of gaining ground. It was primarily used to demoralize enemy soldiers, impair eyesight or ability to walk and even kill them. The first attack using chemicals were caused by the French in August 1914. Their choice of chemicals was first tear gas.

On September 5, 1914 , A German U-boat sunk a Neutral ship. This event would later spark more events such as the US getting involved in the war.

During the beginning of World War 1 the most preferred choice of weapon at long range was the standard bolt action rifle. Both sides had their versions of a bolt action rifle but with different design. Zeppelins and tanks were used as well. The Zeppelins were used by the Germans for bombing runs but were later on decommissioned due to it being very vulnerable in the sky. Planes were a vital part in World War 1. They would practically drop bombs in the trenches or in highly populated areas where military personnel would be at. They were also in mid air dogfights.

President Woodrow Wilson's Peace Effort was for the US to become a neutral country during World War 1.

The British Blockade was conducted by the allied powers to stop raw materials or materials of any sort from getting to the Central Powers of Europe. This Blockade left most people starving to death making more casualties of war than their should have been.

Were merchant ships being escorted by military ships do to the number of sinkings caused by the German U-Boats.

Trench Warfare was implemented into World War 1 by the Germans who were digging up trenches along the Front Sea to this Swiss Frontier. Trench Warfare was used in order to hold position in one spot. It also was used to gain ground but was also a slow process.

A war between the Triple Entente and the Central Powers, that would last for 5 years. In the course of those years, changes happened. Some minor, others significantly historical.

Eddie Rickenbacker was a US Arial man at the time of the war. He was a successful one whose K/D was over 9000!

The Great Ruski Revolution led by Vladimir Lennon was the main reason why Russia pulled out of the war. In Russia Extreme weather conditions and famine were happening at that time. People were tired of the old government and wanted change. This resulted in the Downfall of the CZAR and put forth a Communist country

The Act was enacted on May 17, 1917, which declared a raising of an American army. Mainly a random draft of people willing to serve for the US American Army.

Was a diplomatic note ended from the German Empire to Mexico in order for them to start a war against the US. If Mexico had agreed to this and the German empire did successfully defeat the allies with the help of Mexico, then half of the US would have been regained by Mexico

President Woodrow Wilson asks congress if them and the rest of Murica are willing to go to war. Four days later majority of congress agrees to go to war.

On May 1917, Major General John J Pershing remained in command of the AEF (American Expeditionary Forces). He believed that American soldiers needed the best training to go to war.

The Kaiser , "Wilhelm the 2nd" , relinquished the throne due to their not really being any empire anymore. Over the course of World War 1 the Empire of Germany was disintegrating and overtime it made clear sense that the people of Germany didn't rely on the "Empire" instead at the end of World War 1 it was mainly a military dictating country.

July 15, 1918 was the lat offensive the Germans had their last chance of advancing forward and instead were defeated by an allied counter attack led by French forces. This marked the beginning and the end of the war.

On October 8, 1918, Alvin C. York helped capture enemy positions and kill 32 German soldiers while capturing 132 other in the Meuse-Argone Offensive. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for this action.

The boom was caused by the sending home of the soldiers after the war, more resources were needed and everything was in higher demand, so businesses produced more and more. The event later escalated to one of the reasons of the great depression.

The primary Vietnamese nationalist and Communist leader during the twentieth century, who resisted French, Japanese, and American influence in Vietnam. Ho was president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, serving as the primary North Vietnamese leader throughout much of the Vietnam War.

Who popularized the domino theory that was later used to justify increased U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam.

A U.S. State Department examiner who first expressed the doctrine of containment in 1947.

A U.S. senator from Arkansas and a leading critic of the Vietnam War in the U.S. Congress.

The primary leader of the North Vietnamese Communist Party after Ho Chi Minh’s death

Limited U.S. commitments in Vietnam but ended up escalating the war drastically after the U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. he sent more than 500,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam and ultimatelychanged the conflict into a bitter war.

A senior North Vietnamese diplomat who engaged in secret negotiations in Paris with U.S. emissary Henry A. Kissinger in 1972, leading to the cease-fire that ended official U.S. involvement in Vietnam in January 1973.

Richard Nixon promised the American public that he would reduce U.S. troop levels in Vietnam. He attended a plan he called "Vietnamization," whereby the U.S. would gradually withdraw from the war, leaving the South Vietnamese army to shoulder the start of the fighting. Despite his pledge to bring American soldiers home, American ground troop levels in Vietnam remained high and the Nixon administration expanded the war into the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia.

whose decision to send U.S. “military advisors” into Vietnam in 1962 marked the first official U.S. involvement in the country

A former political science professor who served as President Richard Nixon’s national security advisor and then as his secretary of state. The German-born Kissinger worked closely with Nixon to create and start the policy of Vietnamization and personally was a part of negotiations with North Vietnamese emissary Le Duc Tho in 1972 to cease-fire. Kissinger also assisted Nixon in using China and the Soviet Union to pressure North Vietnam to opt for a peace settlement.

The Vietnamese mafia, headquartered in a Chinese-dominated Saigon suburb of Cholon. The Binh Xuyen influenced politics in southern Vietnam under the corrupt French-backed government.

A U.S. Army lieutenant and the leader of the company of U.S. soldiers who killed several hundred unarmed Vietnamese civilians in the 1968 My Lai Massacre.

• Americans feared the domino theory of expanding communist empire; to stop the spread of communism.

Vietnamese Communist resistance forces, based in northern Vietnam and led by Ho Chi Minh, during the First Indochina War with France

A U.S. foreign policy strategy during the Cold War, developed in 1947 by State Department analyst George F. Kennan. Under containment, the United States would not challenge nations already in the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence but also would not tolerate any further Soviet or Communist expansion. Although containment was meant to apply primarily to Europe, it evolved into the domino theory that formed the basis for U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Governed most of foreign policy held that a communist victory in one nation would quickly lead to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring states. In Southeast Asia, the United States government used the domino theory to justify its support of a non-communist regime in South Vietnam against the communist government of North Vietnam, and ultimately its increasing involvement in the long-running Vietnam War

The dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam as established by the 1954 Geneva Conference. The 17th parallel was buffered by a demilitarized zone, or DMZ, between the two countries.

Peace conference at the end of the First Indochina War, prompted by the devastating French defeat at Dien Bien Phu. The conference issued the Geneva Accords, which divided Vietnam officially into North Vietnam and South Vietnam along the 17th parallel as a changeable measure and promised free Vietnam-wide elections for 1956

Akin to the American slang word “Commies,” an originally mildly derisive term for Communist forces in South Vietnam who opposed the U.S.-backed government in Saigon. By the time of U.S. involvement, the Viet Cong was a sizable guerrilla force hidden among South Vietnam’s population, making its members extremely difficult to find or target. ; attack US soldiers and supply lines.

The FBI’s counterintelligence program, which President Lyndon B. Johnson authorized to spy on domestic anti–Vietnam War activists toward the end of his administration. COINTELPRO agents planted false evidence and arrested hundreds of antiwar activists on bogus charges of supporting Communism. These harsh and illegal tactics turned the American public away from the federal government and widened the credibility gap.

A U.S. military strategy designed to send U.S. troops out into the field proactively to locate and kill Viet Cong forces.

North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.
The war began in 1954, after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, and continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War between two global superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union.

President Richard M. Nixon’s 1969 plan that called for withdrawing almost all of the 500,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam over the next year and handing over more responsibility to the South Vietnamese. Although Nixon did remove troops, he also planned another intensive round of bombing in North Vietnam to convince Hanoi to end the war.

An intensive bombing campaign against Hanoi that President Richard M. Nixon launched in late December 1972, in an attempt to force the North Vietnamese into a peace settlement