Unit 8 Bust to WWII Vocab Review

anti-communist military alliance formed among the United States and Western European countries

• NATO

• Iron Curtain

• United Nations

• Axis

a 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.

• Berlin Airlift

• Island Hopping Campaign

• Marshall Plan

• Dust Bowl

massive economic aid program to rebuild the war-torn  economies of European nations. The containment strategy was motivated both by humanitarian concern for the conditions of  those nations' economies and by fear that their economic dislocation would promote the spread of  communism in Europe, particularly Western Europe; also known as the European Recovery Program.  

• Nato

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall Plan

the blocking by one nation of another nation’s attempts to spread influence-especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet Communism during the late 1940’s and early 1950’s.

• Iron Curtain

• Containment

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall Plan

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill coined the term to refer to the "boundary" that divided  Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe from Western European nations not under Soviet domination. 

• Marshall Plan

• Iron Curtain

• United Nations

• Island Hopping Campaign

name adopted by the United States, Britain, and their allies  against Germany and Italy; after 1945, an international organization joined by nearly all nations.  Stronger than league of nations.

• United Nations

• Yalta Conference

• NATO

• Iron Curtain

In May 1943, the United States began its effort to create an atomic bomb, under the management of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II. By 1945,  nearly $2 billion had been spent on the project. 

• Korematsu Vs. United States

• Manhattan Project

• Battle of Midway

• Island Hopping Campaign

American strategy in the Pacific during World War II. It involved a leapfrogging  movement of American forces from one strategic island to the next until American forces were in control of the  Pacific and prepared to invade Japan.  

• Korematsu v. United States

• Battle of Midway

• Island Hopping

• Dust Bowl

World War II naval and air battle, the United States turned back a Japanese effort to seize an island in June 1942 and inflicted severe damage on the Japanese navy. Helped lead to decline in Japanese control of the Pacific Ocean.

• Island Hopping Campaign

• Battle of Midway

• United Nations

• Nato

meeting in February 1945, where U.S. President Franklin  Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met. The Allies agreed to final plans  for the defeat of Germany and the terms of its occupation. The Soviets agreed to allow free elections in  Poland, but the elections were never held. 

• Battle of Midway

• War Production Board

• Works Progress Administration

• Yalta Conference