WWII Vocabulary
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| Versailles Treaty | ended World War I and set harsh terms for Germany
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| Non-Aggression Pact | Germany and Soviet Union agreed not to attack each other
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| Axis | Germany, Italy and Japan
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| Allies | Great Britain, France, United States, China, Soviet Union and many other nations
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| Dictator | leader who has total power over the people - totalitarian gov't - can be called Communism, Nazism, Facism
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| Benito Mussolini | Dictator (Fascist) of Italy
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| Joseph Stalin | Dictator (Communist) of the Soviet Union
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| Adolf Hitler | Dictator (Nazi) of Germany
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| Democracy | government by the people, directly or through representatives
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| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) | President of the United States
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| Emperor Hirohito | Emperor of Japan
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| Propaganda | a way to influence people (negative or positive)
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| Anti-Semitism | hatred of the Jewish people
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| Holocaust | 6 million Jews killed by HItler's orders (mass murders in Concentration Camps)
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| Royal Air Force (RAF) | Great Britain Air Force
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| Luftwaffe | German Air Force Battle of Britain - Luftwaffe bombed London night after night
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| Blitzkrieg | German warfare attack like lightning
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| Stalingrad | City in Soviet Union-German defeat and beginning of the end for Germany
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| D-Day | Allies invaded France on June 7, 1944 to drive back and defeat the Germans
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| Dwight Eisenhower | He led the D-Day invasion in France
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| Gen. Frederick Paulus | German Field Marshall defeated at Stalingrad
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| Gen. Rommel | German defeated by Allied invasion of France (aka "Desert Fox)
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| V-E Day | Victory in Europe - May 8, 1945
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| V-J Day | Victory over Japan - September 2, 1945
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| Pearl Harbor | US Naval based on Hawaii that was bombed by the Japanese on December 7, 1941
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| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide bombers
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| Hiroshima | 1st atomic bomb dropped here
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| Nagasaki | 2nd atomic bomb dropped here
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| Gen. Douglas MacArthur | Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific during WWII
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| Island Hopping | military strategy used in the Pacific to gain control of islands in preparing to take Japan
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