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US/VA Unit 7 Vocab
World War II
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Baltic countries | Countries of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania & Finland between 1920 and 1939 |
| Lend-Lease Act | This act gave the President the authority to sell or lend equipment to countries to defend themselves against the Axis Power |
| Adolf Hitler | Fascist leader of Germany from January 1933 to April 1945 |
| Pearl Harbor | American naval base in Hawaii that was attached by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 |
| island hopping | Strategy for seizing islands closer and closer to Japan to set up bases for air attacks |
| El Alamein | North Africa battle that was won by the British which prevented German forces from seizing Egypt and the Sues Canal |
| Stalingrad | Hundreds of thousands of German soldiers were killed or captured during a months-long siege of this Russian city |
| D-Day | Event that occurred on June 6, 1944 when American and Allied troops under Eisenhower landed on the Normandy beaches. It was a turning point of the war |
| Midway | A major American victory where American naval forces defeated a much larger Japanese force a few months after Pearl Harbor |
| Iwo Jima & Okinawa | Islands invaded by US forces that cost thousands of American lives and even more Japanese soldiers' deaths |
| atomic bomb | Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Tuskegee Airmen | All African-American unit of airmen who served in Europe with distinction |
| Nisei Regiment | Regiments of Asian Americans who earned a high number of distinctions |
| Geneva | Post-war convention that attempted to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners of war by establishing rules to be followed by all nations |
| Bataan Death March | American POWs sufferred brutal treatment by the Japanese during this event after their surrender of the Philippines |
| genocide | The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, religious or cultural group |
| Holocaust | Twentieth century genocide in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945 which resulted in the death of over six million Jews and five million others |
| Final Solution | Germany's decision to eliminate all Jews |
| Nuremberg | Post-war trials which targeted Nazi leaders and others accused of war crimes |
| Rationing | Restricting goods to civilian populations so that more was available for the war effort |
| Selective Service | Also known as "the draft" - process of conscripting men into the armed forces |
| Internment camps | Camps in the United States where Japanese Americans were forced to stay during WWII |
| ghettos | Ethnic communities were inhabitants are forced to live due to economic or social circumstances |
| Death camps | Camps whose primary purpose was to eliminate their inhabitants |
| Concentration camps | Camps whose primary purpose was forced labor or restricting movement of its inhabitants |
| F.D.Roosevelt | President of the United States for 4 terms until 1945 |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII |
| Harry Truman | Vice President of the United States who became President upon FDR's death |
| Rosie the Riveter | Symbol of American women in wartime work force |
| Auschwitz-Birkenau | Largest concentration/death camp in Occupied Europe during WWII (located in present-day Poland) |
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