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WWII
Terms/ People/ Places
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allied Powers | Several countries, including France and Great Britain, working together to oppose the Axis Powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan, which formed an alliance together at the start of World War II |
| Appeasement | A policy of making political compromises in order to avoid conflict |
| Atlantic Charter | Acharter that lists eight principles for a better world, composed during a meeting between President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in August 1941 |
| Atomic Bomb | A type of nuclear bomb whose violent explosion is triggered by splitting atoms, which releases intense heat and radioactivity |
| Concentration Camps | A place where prisoners of war or members of persecuted minorities are confined; in World War II, the camps where Jews and others were held and murdered by the Nazis |
| D- Day | The day, June 6, 1944, in World War II when Allied forces invaded northern France by landing on beaches at Normandy |
| Gestapo | Nazi secret police force |
| Holocaust | The mass slaughter by the Nazis of six million Jews and others during World War II |
| Internment Camps | A prison camp to hold enemy aliens and other prisoners of war during wartime |
| Island Hopping | a strategy that involves capturing and setting up military bases on island groups one island at a time |
| Isolationism | a policy in which a nation stays out of the affairs of other nations |
| Kamikaze | one of a group of Japanese suicide bomber pilots who crashed their planes, loaded with explosives, into American ships |
| Nonaggression Pact | an agreement made in 1939 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, declaring that they would not take military action against each other for the next 10 year |
| Purge | removing or eliminating something |
| Ration | to control the supply of goods made available to the public, especially in wartime |
| Rearmament | the effort of a nation to rebuild a stockpile of weapons to replace those that are out-of-date or have been taken away |
| Refugee | a person seeking shelter and protection from political persecution |
| Third Reich | name used by the Nazi party to describe the time when Adolph Hitler believed he was creating a third German empire |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of broken glass" when Nazi brownshirts attacked and detroyed jewish synagogues, businesses, and homes. |
| R.A.F. | Englands air force. the Royal Air Force |
| Luftwaffe | The German air force |
| 442nd Infantry | a military unit that consisted entirely of Japanese Americans |
| Navajo Code Talkers | he Marines enlisted these Native American men to transmit and translate messages using their native language, which the Japanese could not decode. |
| WAAC | Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps. Offered women a chance to participate in noncombat roles. 150,000 women served all over the world, including in war zones. |
| WAVES | Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service . Navy version od the WAAC/ WAC. Members worked in fields such as aviation, medicine, intelligence, science, and technology- but could NOT serve overseas. |
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