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WWII
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| dictatorship | form of government in which control is gained by force |
| totalitarian | total control over all aspects of society |
| fascism | government based on militarism and racism |
| Benito Mussolini | Il Duce; dictator in Italy during WWII |
| Josef Stalin | communist dictator in the Soviet Union during WWII; was known for brutality and punishing those who were against him |
| Hideki Tojo | dictator in Japan during WWII |
| Adolf Hitler | Nazi leader and dictator in Germany during WWII; led by totalitarian rule; responsible for the horrors of the Holocaust |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) | President of the United States during WWII; kept the U.S. isolated for the start of the war |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII |
| Harry S. Truman | FDR's successor; responsible for the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan to end WWII |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Allied Powers | Britain, France, Soviet Union, and United States |
| League of Nations | group of countries that would try to keep peace and avoid war; created during the Treaty of Versailles; did not attempt to stop dictator imperialism prior to WWII |
| Munich Conference | meeting where Britain and France agreed that Hitler could take Sudetenland if he promised to not take any more land after that |
| appeasement | to give in to demands in order to avoid conflict |
| annex | to add (ex. Hitler annexed Austria in 1938.) |
| Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | Hitler's pact with Stalin that stated that Germany and the Soviet Union would never attack one another; it also secretly promised half of Poland to the Soviet Union if Hitler invaded |
| September 1, 1939 | Hitler invaded Poland; WWII began in Europe |
| blitzkrieg | "lightning warfare"; tactic used by Nazi Germany to quickly take over land; included fast, strong, and quick moving air raids, tanks, and heavy artillery |
| Battle of Britain | German air raids over Britain after France was defeated |
| Lend-Lease Act | the law that allowed the United States to "lend" ships and other supplies to allied countries at the start of the war |
| two-theater war | the war was fought in two "theaters", the European theater and the Pacific theater |
| December 7th, 1941 | Attack on Pearl Harbor; the Japanese launched an air attack against the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; because of the attack, the U.S. declared war against the Axis Powers and entered WWII |
| Japanese Internment | the U.S placed Japanese Americans in internment camps out of fear that they may be spies for the Japanese government |
| total war | all resources of society are used to defeat an opponent |
| Selective Service Act | the "draft"; age was lowered to 18 for WWII; used to recruit troops for military action when the U.S. entry to the war |
| D-Day | Operation Overlord; the day that the allies stormed the beaches of Normandy; was a turning point in WWII; allies won and were able to liberate France |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day; May 8th, 1945 |
| V-J Day | Victory over Japan Day; August 5th, 1945 |
| kamikazes | Japanese suicide pilots |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | American general responsible for leading the DDay invasion |
| genocide | wiping out of an entire group of people |
| The Holocaust | genocide of Jewish by the Nazis during WWII |
| concentration camp | work and/or death camp used as part of Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jewish race |
| Douglas MacArthur | American general that led the fight against the Japanese in the Phillippines |
| island hopping | attacking and capturing key islands |
| atomic bomb | nuclear bomb |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | two Japanese cities that the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs on to end WWII |
| Harry S. Truman | became president after FDR died in office; made the decision to drop the atomic bombs to end WWII |
| Nuremberg Trials | trials of German officers after WWII for crimes against humanity |
| United Nation | replaced the League of Nations; group of countries that would work for peace and prevent war |
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