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WWII/Holocaust
SS7 WWII and the Holocaust
Term | Definition |
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Eisenhower | |
Rommel | |
Trotsky | |
Truman | |
Churchill | |
Hitler | |
Stalin | |
Franklin Roosevelt | |
Axis Powers | Italy, Germany, and Japan |
Allied Powers | France, Great Britain, and U.S. |
European Theater | battles/fronts located in Eastern and Western Europe |
Pacific Theater | battles/fronts located in Asia; consisted of 'Island Hopping' campaign |
Sudetenland | area of Czechoslovakia that Hitler demanded be given to Germany |
Battle of Britain | |
Battle of Midway | |
Gaudal Canal | |
Stalingrad | |
D-Day | |
Neutrality Acts | |
Blitzkrieg | |
Appeasement | |
Munich Conference | |
Aircraft carrier | |
island hopping | tactic for clearing islands in Asia of Japanese threat |
Lend-Lease Act | |
Atomic Bomb | |
Pearl Harbor | December ?, 1942; the Japanese attacked the U.S. causing the U.S. to join WWII. |
Anti-Semitism | hatred of Jews seen throughout Europe and practiced by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis |
Holocaust | the systematic killing of Jews during WWII |
Nuremberg Trial | trials of Nazi's accused of war crimes and atrocities during the Holocaust |
Final Solution | Hitler's plan to exterminate the entire Jewish population |
Ghettos | neighborhoods in which Jews were rounded up and forced to live. They were heavily guarded. |
Kristallnacht | Day in which Jewish shops and houses were destroyed. Jews were beaten and killed while many were arrested. |