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ww11
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Benito mussolini | italin fascist dictator |
| Adolf hitler | german dictator , head of the nazi party |
| joseph stalin | communist dictator of sovoit union for 1924-1953 |
| Neville chamberlain | prime minister of great britian, made the munich agreement with hitler |
| General Dwight D. Eisenhover | the supreme allied commander in europe |
| tuskegee Airman | famous segregated unit of African american pilots |
| code talkers | navajo indians recrutied by the u.s marine corps to transmit messages in navajo laugauge |
| Pearl Harbor | U.s navel base attacked by japanese forces on december 7 1941 led to americans joining the war effort |
| D-day | allied invasion of france on june 6 1944 |
| yalta conference | the confrence in which the alliess planned the post-war world |
| Battle of the bulge | the german assult in december 1944 in the ardennes region pf belguim and luxemburg. |
| battle of midway | the US victory over japenese off midway island that proved to be the turning point of the war |
| nurmburg trials | the war crimes trirals of nazi leaders in nuremburg germany |
| potsdam confrence | the allies meeting in potsdam, germany to plan the end of the war |
| lend-lease act | an act which allowed the united states to lend weopons to allies |
| axis powers | the rome-berlin axis, the alliance between mussolini and hiter later joined by japan |
| appeasements | the meeting of demands from hostile power in oer to avoid war. |
| blitzkreig | german" lighting war" tatics, in an effort to strike and opponent strategically and quickly |
| holocaust | the nazi german crime of killing more than 11million jew and other persuctuted peoples in concentration camps |
| manhatten project | the top secret goverment project to develop the atomic bomb |
| genocide | the delibrate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group |
| island hopping | the allied strategy in the pacific of invading islands, and using them as bases to advance closer to japan |
| facism | political philosophy that advocates a strong nationalistic dictatorship |
| totalitarianism | a system of goverment that is centralised and dictatatorized and requires complete obedience to a state |
| allied powers | the "BIG THREE" the us. the soviet union and great britian allied together during world war 2 their allinace brought about victory during ww11 |
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