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WWII
WWII Review
Term | Definition |
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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 |