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US II SOL 7
World War II
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Causes of WWII | Political Instability resulting from WWI Economic devastation resulting from WWI Rise of Fascism |
| Allied Powers | United States Great Britain Canada Soviet Union - after Germany invaded |
| Allied Leaders | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin |
| Axis Powers | Germany Italy Japan |
| Axis Leaders | Adolf Hitler - Germany Benito Mussolini - Italy Hideki Tojo - Japan |
| How American's Policy Toward the War Changed Over Time | Isolation Economic Aid to Allies Direct Involvement in War |
| December 7, 1941 | Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
| Anti-Semitism | Hostility and discrimination toward Jews |
| Aryan Supremacy | The belief that the Aryan race (Caucasian, blond haired, blue eyed, Northern Europeans) are better than other races |
| Segregation | The policy of keeping people of different races or religions separate or apart. |
| Concentration Camp | A place where large numbers of Jews, gypsies, handicapped, sick, blacks, elderly, and political prisoners were deliberately imprisoned to await mass execution. |
| Internment camps | Many Japanese Americans living in the U.S. were moved into prison/work camps after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. |
| Rosie the Riveter | Rosie represented American women on the homefront that took jobs in defense plants during WWII |
| fascism | a political belief or philosophy in which total power is given to a dictator, nationalism and racism are emphasized and individual freedoms are limited, |
| This set off war in Europe | Germany invaded Poland |
| This battle was the turning point of the war in the Pacific | the Battle of Midway |
| This battle was the turning point of the war in Eastern Europe | Stalingrad |
| D-Day | American and Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, and the liberation of Western Europe began |
| The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan ending WWII | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Effects of World War II on the homefront | An end to the Great Depression 1000s of American Women took jobs in defense plants during the war Americans conserved and rationed goods Because of a need for workers some racial barriers were temporarily broken down |
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