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