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World War 2 2024

World War 2

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Appeasement Giving in to agressive demands in order to aviod war.
Winston Churchill British prime minister during WW2
Axis Powers The alliance of Germany,Italy,and Japan in World War 2.
Nonaggression Pact an agreement between nations to not attack one another.
Blitzkrieg a German word meaning "lighting war"; a fast,forceful style of fightiong.
Allies The alliance of Britain,France,and Russia in World War 2;joined by the United States after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Hideki Tojo Japenese nationlist and general;he took control of japan during World War 2.He was later tried and executed for War crimes.
Dwight D.Eisenhower Genera;thirty-fourth president of the United States;as supreme Allied commander in Europe during World War 2,he led Allied invasions of North Africa and of France.
Douglas MacArhur American general,he commanded U.S. troops in the southwest pacific during World War 2 and administered Japan after the war ended.
Battle Of Midway World War 2 naval battle fought in the pacific;the Americans Broke the Japanese code and knew the date and location of the attack,setting the stage for ba major American Victory.
Kamikazes in World War 2,Japanese pilots who loaded their aircraft with bombs and crased them into enemy ships.
Final Solution the Nazi Party's plan to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and Soviet Union.
Ghetto a section of a city that is occupied by only one group of people , usually because they cannot live elswhere as a result of economic hardships
Concentration Camps detention sites created for military or political purposes to confine,terrorize,and in some cases,kill civilians.
Holocaust the killing of millions of jews and others by the Nazis during World War 2.
Benito Mussolini Fascist Italian Dictator during WW2
Adolf Hitler German Leader of the Nazis party during WW2. He promoted the idea of the Aryan race and named himself Fuhrer (leader).
Joseph Stalin Leader os the Soviet Union during WW2
Harry Truman Truman becomes President after FDR dies in April 1045, he decideds to drop 2 atomic bombs on Japan to end the war.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt US President during the Great Depression and most of WW2.
Peral Harbor Japan launched a suprise attack on the US naval base in Hawaii that followed by America declaring war and entering WW2
D - Day The Allied land invasion on Normandy beach on June 6th, 1944. This enabled the Allied forces to slowly liberate western Europe.
Japanese American internment After Pearl Harbor, the American government relocated Japanes Americans to remote locations as there was concenrs of them being spies.
Yalta conference The big Three - Stalin, Churchill and FDR agreed to establish the United Nations and to break Germany into 4 regions.
War Production Board A government agency that decided which goods factoires would produce.
Kristallnacht A German order to go out into the communites and destroy and burn Jewish items.
Fascism a form of totalitarianism that emphasizes nationalism and conformity
Island hopping An allied plan in the Pacific to secure air bases on strategic islands to help launch larger attacks on Japan
Reasons why Truman decided to use the Atomic Bomb and the impact it had on Japan. Truman felt the American casulaities would be too high if they invaded the main land of Japan. It would help to end the war.
Differences between the United Nations and the League of Nations. The United States did ot join the League of NAtions after WW1 but did join the United Nations after WW2
War propaganda and its impact on the American people. Describe the effects of war in America (Home front). Americans were encouraged to ration food and grow victory gardens and buy war bonds.
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