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WWII Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Giving in to keep the peace. | Appeasement |
| Declaration of principles issued by Winston Churchill and FDR in August 1941. | Atlantic Charter |
| Severe economic downturn that followed the collapse of the US stock market in 1929. | Great Depression |
| President of the US during the Depression and WWII | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| The German brand of facism | Nazism |
| Roosevelt's program for creating jobs and improving the American economy | New Deal |
| Fascism | Political movement based on nationalism that gives power to a dictator and takes away from individual rights. |
| Germany, Italy and Japan | Axis Powers |
| Leader of Britain during WWII | Winston Churchill |
| Belief that political ties with other countries should be avoided. | Isolationism |
| Warfare in which suprise air attacks are followed by massive attacks on land. | Blitzkrieg |
| Book by Hitler outlining his beliefs and goals for Germany | Mein Kempf |
| Fascist leader of Italy | Benito Mussolini |
| Fascisst leader of Germany | Adolf Hitler |
| Great Britain, France, U.S. and Russia | Allies |
| Agreement that says countries will not attack or invade one another | Non-aggression Pact |
| Germanic people | Arayans |
| "The Night of Broken Glass" when the Nazis attacks Jews throughout Germany | Kirstallnacht |
| Navy base in Hawaii attacked by the Japanese | Pearl Harbor |
| American general who helped drive the Germans out of Africa | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Breaking down armed forces and military | Demilitarization |
| Huge allied invasion mounted to retake France from the Germans | D-Day |
| Systemic killing of an entire people | Genocide |
| Battle during which the Red Army forced the Germans out of Stalingrad | Battle of Stalingrad |
| Trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against humanity | Nuremberg Trials |
| Japanese admiral who decided that the U.S. fleet in Hawaii had to be destroyed | Isoroku Yamamato |
| Hitler's plan to kill as many Jews as possible | Final Solution |
| Japanese suicide pilots | Kamikaze |
| U.S. general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific | Douglas MacArthur |
| Neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live | Ghettos |
| Process of creating a government elected by the people | Democratization |
| Systemic mass killing of Jews and other groups considered inferior by Nazis | Holocaust |
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