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7-4.5--7-4.6 Review
Quick Overview of 7-4.5--7-4.6 (does NOT include all terms)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pearl Harbor | Japanese sneak attack on Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, led to U.S. involvement in WWII |
| D-Day Invasion | the battle to liberate German-controlled France and northern Europe began on June 6, 1944 and the Allied forces were able to liberate France by September |
| Drives for Empire | when a nation pushes to conquer other countries and take more territory or land |
| Appeasement | when Britain and France let Hitler have what he wanted in hopes of avoiding another world war; it didn’t work |
| Battle of Britain | 1940 air war over Britain; Britain won and prevented a German sea invasion as a result |
| Island-hopping campaigns | “leapfrogging” strategy in the Pacific which bypassed islands heavily secured by Japan in favor of taking islands that were strategically located in the drive to reach the main islands of Japan yet easier to seize, thus saving countless American lives |
| Battle of Stalingrad | key battle of WWII on the Eastern front; fought between Germany and the Soviet Union from Aug. 1942—Feb. 1943; Germans lost and surrendered their Sixth Army |
| Isolationism | when the U.S. did not want to get involved in European problems or wars in the 1930s |
| Invasion of Poland | German invasion of this country on Sept. 1, 1939, led to British and French declarations of war on Germany, officially starting WWII |
| Invasion of the Soviet Union | the German invasion of the this country in June, 1941, a massive mistake, led to the defeat of Germany in WWII |
| Final Solution | Hitler’s genocidal plan to destroy all Jewish people |
| Lend-Lease Program | this act allowed President Roosevelt to lend or lease weapons and other supplies to countries that were important to the interests of the United States |
| Campaigns in North Africa and the Mediterranean | failed attempts by the Axis to seize the Suez Canal, followed by successful Allied seaborne invasions of North Africa, Sicily, and Italy in order to attack the “soft underbelly” of Axis occupied Europe |
| Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | when the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan to end WWII sooner, first use of atomic weapons |
| Nuremberg Trials | an International Military Tribunal conducted in 1945-1946 which saw twenty-two Nazi leaders charged with “crimes against humanity” for what they did during the Holocaust |
| anti-Semitism | hating, discriminating or being prejudiced against Jewish people |
| the Holocaust | the systematic mass murder or genocide of six million Jews and about 5 million other “undesirable” peoples before and during World War II, by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party |
| Kristallnacht, or “Night of Broken Glass" | when, on November 9, 1938 Nazi troops attacked Jewish businesses, synagogues (Jewish places of religious worship (churches)), and homes and killed approximately one hundred Jews |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | a 1948 document adopted by the United Nations; it said what rights all people should have |
| Israel | a country founded in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1948 in order to give the Jewish people, and especially survivors of the Holocaust, a homeland |
| Gypsies | Romani people who moved from place to place in Central and Eastern Europe; they were also persecuted during the Holocaust |
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