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WWII/Holocaust
SS7 WWII and the Holocaust
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |