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World War II
History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Treaty of Versailles | A treaty that Germany was forced into after the war (had to assume full blame for causing the war, pay huge reparations, and limit the size of the German military) |
| Ghettos | Formerly a street, or quarter, of a city set apart as a legally enforced residence area for Jews - were enclosed with walls and gates and kept locked at night (most commonly known is the Warsaw and its uprising) |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist of Italy (put Italy in a totalitarian state) |
| Nuremberg Trials | The trials that the Allies held against the Axis Powers to hold them responsible for their crimes |
| Nuremberg Laws | A set a laws that the Nazi government passed, making Jews legally different from their non-Jewish neighbors (removed Jewish citizenship, banned marriage between Jews and non-Jews, forced Jews from jobs and homes, escalated violence against Jews) |
| Adolf Hitler | German guy who led the Nazis and started the Holocaust |
| Lebensraum | A German concept of expansionism for “living space” |
| Kristallnacht | The wave of violent anti-Jewish outbursts - “Night of Broken Glass” (when Nazi led mobs smashed windows; looted; and destroyed Jewish homes, businesses, and places of worship) |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | Germany and the Soviet Union signed a secret pact in which they agreed that they would not attack each other and secretly divided the countries between them |
| Genocide | The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group |
| Blitzkrieg | A German military campaign intended to bring about an easy victory (combined arms surprise attack using an overwhelming force concentration) |
| The Final Solution | Hitler’s solution to the “Jewish question” - goal was to exterminate all European Jews because they were criticized for their role in media, government, and finance (became known as the Holocaust) |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Allied Powers | Great Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union |
| Atomic Bomb | A weapon whose violent explosive power is due to the sudden release of energy and nuclear fission |
| Neutrality Acts | Acts the United States passed in order to remain neutral and prevent conflict (forbade the selling of arms to nations at war, outlawed loans to warring nations, prohibited travel on ships of warring powers) |
| Pearl Harbor | A military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the American naval base in Hawaii |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki | Bombings conducted by the United States during World War II marked the first and only use of nuclear weapons in warfare |
| D-Day | Normandy landings: Allied invasion of Normandy, France (Germany took over) |
| Aryan | Form of being white - Nazis believed they were superior by being aryan - best kind of white (why they don’t trust Jews, other whites, etc) |
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