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WW II Vocabulary
WW II Vocabulary Words
Term | Definition |
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Adolf Hitler | German dictator that controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945. He tried to kill all the Jewish people in Europe. |
New Deal | A series of programs that helped the US out of the great depression. It was set up by Franklin Delanor Rosevelt |
Kellogg-Briand Act | An act that was singed by 15 nations that tried to outlaw war after WW I |
Nazi Party | National Socialist German Workers Party ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler. |
Luftwaffe | The German Air Force founded in 1935. |
Overproduction | Making too much of a product. Flooding the market place with a product and driving down the price. |
Maginot Line | A line of concrete fortifications and obstacles with weapons built by the French in WW II. |
Tariffs | A tax on a product or goods coming into of leaving a country. |
Benito Mussolini | The ruler that lead Italy from 1922-1943. Her worked with Hitler. |
Axis Powers | These countries joined together to form a group to fight the allied forces in WW II. It was Germany, Japan and Italy. |
Dictartorship | A country that is ruled only by one person or a small group of people and they have all the power and control. |
Social Darwinsm | Is where a group of people act on the thought that they are better than other groups of people. Like Hitler trying to kill all the Jewish people. |
Inflation | The increasing of prices of products and services do to several economic factors. |
Nuremberg Laws | Laws that formed in 1935 in Nuremberg Germany that set up many of Nazi radical laws and racial theories. |
Kristallnacht | November 9th, 1938 a night when Nizi Germans destroyed many Jewish synagogues and thousands were taken to concentration camps and then killed. |
Allied Powers | WW II countries that joined together to destroy the Axis of Evil. The countries were the US, Britain, France, USSR Austria and several others. |
Demilitarized | When countries signed treaties to end wars and not fight any more. They set boarders of safety. |