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john brown
John Brown was a radical who also believed in the slavery system -
War bonds
War bonds are debt securities issued by a government to finance military -
plan to end ww2
dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima -
great depression
Reasons why it started was because The Stock Market Crash and a dust storm destroyed crops and people were in a drought of food. -
austwitz
Had the largest Nazi concentration and death camps. Located in southern Poland, -
Lend Lease Act
It was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during the war and authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials -
rational lease
Was a global conflic -
Island Hopping
Is the strategy employed by the United States to gain military bases and secure -
Doolittle Raid
first air operation to strike the Japanese Home Islands , and demonstrated that the Japanese mainland was vulnerable to American air attack -
battle of the coral sea
a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia that happened in the pacific ocean -
Midway
The battle took 4 days and naval battle in the Pacific -
Internment
Was a forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese -
Operation Fortitutde
An inflatable tank that was supposed to deceive the German aerial reconnaissance missions as part of Operation Fortitude. -
Japanese Atrocities
Was designed to support the invasion of Normandy and was to deceive the Germans -
Sicily and Italy
Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers. -
Guadalcanal
First major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific that involve the marines -
Operation Overloard
the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion -
Battle of the bulge
last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. -
Tunnels
Was to attack or defend, and the use of existing natural caves and artificial underground facilities for military purposes -
Iwo jima
United States Marine landed on and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army -
Unconditional Surrender
surrender in which no guarantees are given to the surrendering party -
Dropping of Atomic Bomb
The two bombings killed at least 129,000 people, and gave us victor -
Enola Gay
first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. The bomb "Little Boy" was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, -
Little Boy
Was the first atomic bomb and dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima -
Fat Man
Dropped on Japanese city of Nagasaki and was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare