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Unit 12
WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| nonaggression pact | agreement between USSR and Germany not to attack one another but attack Poland, later broken by Germany |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day |
| ghetto | specified area of cities for housing Jews during the Holocaust, overcrowding and horrible conditions caused many to die |
| rationing | establishing fixed allotments of goods that were essential for the military |
| GI Bill of Rights | provided education and training for veterans after the war, paid for by the federal government |
| Munich Conference | attempted appeasement to stop Hitler by granting him the Sudentanland |
| Comanche language | used in the ETO as a secret code |
| Guadalcanal | called the island of death, first stop on the island hopping campaign |
| Holocaust | genocide against the Jews, murder of 6 million during WWII |
| Little Boy & Fat Man | names of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Pearl Harbor | surprise attack here on December 7, 1941 by the Japanese brought the US into the war |
| relocation of Japanese Americans | by executive order 9066 Japanese Americans living on the west coast were forced into relocation camps throughout the war due to fear they would aid the enemy |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 invasion of Normandy, the northern coast of France, controlled by Nazi Germany and protected by Hitler's Atlantic Wall, this successful invasion was pivotal to ending the war |
| Leyte Gulf | MacArthur's triumphant return to the Philippines, liberated it from Japanese control and freed captured POW soldiers |
| Bataan Death March | surrendered and captured American soldiers were forced on a brutal march to POW camp, many died from starvation, disease, and brutality |
| USS Arizona | today this sunken ship is a tomb to those who died at Pearl Harbor and serves as a memorial to that fateful day |
| Blitzkrieg | lightning war, Germany's military strategy using fast planes and powerful tanks |
| Nuremberg Trial | at the conclusion of the war this trial condemned Nazi leaders for their war crimes |
| kristallnacht | night of broken glass, when Nazi troops attacked Jewish businesses |
| Mein Kampf | "My Struggle" book by Hitler that highlights his plan for Nazism |
| Auschwitz | largest concentration camp that served as both a labor and execution camp, many killed in gas chambers |
| Battle of the Bulge | last offensive effort of Nazi Germany |
| RAF | Royal Air Force - British fighter pilots took on the German Luftwaffe in the skies over England and destroyed Hitler's plan for invasion |
| what kind of items were hard to come by during the war? | rubber, nylon, sugar, butter, gas, etc all rationed for the war effort |
| Manhattan Project | code name for the building of the atomic bomb, done in secret with laboratories and universities across the country participating, led by scientist Robert Oppenheimer |
| Midway | turning point battle in the Pacific in which the Japanese code had been broken |
| Stalingrad | battle over the city, in which the majority of the town was destroyed, Germans lost and it cost a million lives |
| phony war | winter of 1939/1940 in which very little action will occur |
| Navajo | code talkers of the PTO |
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