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World War 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allied Powers | The main Allied powers were Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. The leaders of the Allies were Franklin Roosevelt (US), Winston Churchill (GB), and Joseph Stalin (SU). |
| Atomic Bomb | A nuclear weapon. During World War 2 it was used by the United States against Japan in an attempt to end the war in the Pacific |
| Appeasement | Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict |
| Axis Powers | The main Axis powers were Germany, Japan and Italy. The Axis leaders were Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Emperor Hirohito (Japan). |
| Blitzkrieg | A German term for "lightning war". It consisted of sudden violent attacks |
| Bushido Code | The code of conduct followed by Japan's samurai warriors. The word bushido can be translated as the "way of the warrior" |
| casualties | A person killed or injured in a war |
| Communism | A political and economic system where the major productive resources in a society are owned by the public or the state, and wealth is divided among citizens equally |
| Concentration Camps | Where European civilians, especially Jews, were taken to be murdered by the Nazis during World War II |
| Dictator | A leader that rules in an absolute and often oppressive way, has total governmental control |
| Fascism | A political system headed by a dictator in which the government controls business and labor and opposition is not permitted |
| Genocide | The deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| Holocaust | The mass slaughter of European civilians, especially Jews, by the Nazis during World War II |
| Internment Camps | A camp for political prisoners or prisoners of war. They were established in the United States to hold people of Japanese descent following the attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Island Hopping | The military strategy used by the Allies in World War II. Involved traveling from island to island, in the Pacific, in a chain to get closer to Japan |
| Kamikaze | A member of a Japanese air attack division in World War II assigned to make a suicidal crash on a target (such as a ship) |
| Nazi | A member of a German fascist party controlling Germany from 1933 to 1945 |
| Totalitarianism | A type of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens |
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