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WWII
WWII Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aushwitz | The largest Nazi Death Camp in Poland |
| Anti-Semitism | Hatred of Jews |
| Blitzkrieg | Germany's offensive combat strategy |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister |
| D-Day | Allied invasion of Normandy |
| Concentration Camps | Prisons used for internment and forced labor of enemies of Germany |
| Death Camps | Nazi extermination centers in Poland |
| Fascism | The political system put in place by Benito Mussolini in Italy. |
| Gestapo | German secret police |
| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan |
| Adolf Hitler | Nazi Party leader and German dictator |
| Holocaust | The killing of 6 million European Jews by Nazi Germany |
| Isolationists | People wishing to stay out of WWII |
| Manhattan Project | U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian dictator |
| Pearl Harbor | Location of Japanese attack which brought the U.S. into WWII |
| POW | Prisoner of War |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President during most of WWII |
| Josef Stalin | Soviet Dictator during WWII |
| Harry S. Truman | President who authorized use of atomic bombs on Japan |