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World War II Review
Review of the events and terms of WWII
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Facism | total power is given to a dictator |
| Germany's Dictator | Adolf Hitler |
| Italy's Dictator | Benito Mussolini |
| Japan's Dictator | Hideki Tojo |
| Appeasement | The Allies give in to Hitler in order to keep peace |
| Nationalism | Extreme love for one's country |
| Real Cause/ Beginning of WWII | Germany invades Poland - September 1, 1939 |
| War Reparations paid by Germany for WWI | 2010 |
| Ethiopia | First Country Italy invades (1935) |
| Treaty that ended WWI | The Treaty of Versailles |
| Black Shirts | Mussolini's secret police |
| King Victor Emmanuell | King of Italy - Gave Mussolini power |
| Valdimir Lennin | Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of Russia after Lenin - Killed approx. 10-20 Million Russians |
| The Great Terror | Led by Stalin - Killed 10-20 Million Russians who did not agree with him. |
| National Socialist German Worker's Party | Nazi Party - Founded by Adolf Hitler |
| Mien Kampf | "My Struggle" - written by Hitler in prison - explains his plan for world domination |
| Blitzkreig | Lighting War - method of attack used by the Germans |
| Maginot Line | Built by France as a defense against the Germans - along the French/German border |
| Dunkirk | Thousands of British and French troops are evacuated across the English Channel by 900 boats - 10 days - saved both armies |
| Vichy Government | French Government after Germany occupied France - puppet government |
| Lend Lease Act | US provided a country with supplies needed to fight Germany - the country would not have to pay the US back immediately |
| Luftwaffe | German Air Force |
| RAF | Royal Air Force - England's Air Force |
| December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor - Japan attacks the US - Brought the US into the war |
| "A date which will live in infamy" | FDR - Referencing the Attack on Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1941 |
| Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto | Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1941 |
| The Big Three | Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt |
| The Final Solution | Adolf Hitler's plan to eradicate the Jews - 1941 |
| Scorched-earth Policy | Russia - burned everything as the Germans advanced |
| Anti-Semitism | Prejudice direct toward Jews - hatred of Jews |
| Kristallnacht | 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed throughout Germany. 25,000 Jewish men sent to concentration camps. November 9, 1938 |
| Operation Overlord | D-Day - June 6, 1944 - The Allies invade Europe - Normandy |
| Battle of the Bulge | Last major offensive for the Germans - failed but did cause much devistation |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe - May 2, 1945 - Germany surrenders |
| Island Hopping | Method used in the Pacific by the Allies to conquer the Japanese |
| Tokyo Rose | 12 Women who were propaganda broadcasters for the Japanese |
| The Manhattan Project | The development of the atomic bomb |
| Paul Tibbetts | Pilot of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb - August 6, 1945 - Hiroshima |
| Enola Gay | Name of the plane which drop the first atomic bomb |
| Nagasaki | Second japanese city to be destroyed by an atomic bomb August 9, 1945 |
| V-J Day | Victory in Japan - August 15, 1945 |
| Executive Order 9066 | Ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast regardless of age, birthplace, or gender to be moved to internment camps for the duration of the war. |
| Korematsu v. US | Supreme Court case which upheld the internment camps as necessary |
| War Production Board | Established to coordinate production of war materials |
| Rosie the Riveter" | icon of women workers |
| "Iron Curtain" | Winston Churchill |
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