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WW2
WW2 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| “Blitzkrieg” | "lightning war," the German military strategy during World War II of attacking without warning |
| Luftwaffe - German Air Force | German planes used in Battle of Britain. |
| Axis Powers | the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II |
| Allied Powers | the countries that fought against the Central Powers during World War I and the countries that fought against the Axis Powers during World War II |
| September 1, 1939 (Invasion of Poland) | Germany invades Poland. Start of WW2. |
| Battle of Britain (1940) - and the Royal Air Force (RAF) | Great Britain was the only remaining Allied nation and their air force was outnumbered yet they still won. |
| Bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii December 7, 1941 | Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and their US naval base sinking 4 battleships, 3 cruisers, 3 destroyers, and 174 planes killing 3,000 Americans. |
| Governments efforts to curb inflation and consumption | Ration books every week for food and price controls. |
| “Double V Campaign” | a campaign in which Black leaders called for all citizens to fight against racism by seeking a "double victory"—a victory for democracy at home and abroad |
| Tuskegee Airmen | a group of Army Air Corps pilots and support crews, established in 1941 as the first Black combat unit |
| Japanese Internment (Relocation Camps) | a center for confining people who have been relocated for reasons of national security |
| Executive order 9066 | an executive order issued by FDR in 1942 allowing internment camps to be set up to exclude current residents believed to be a threat to security |
| Korematsu v. United States | the 1944 Supreme Court decision declaring that the government had the right to keep Japanese Americans in internment camps |
| The Role of Women on the Homefront | a women's unit of the U.S. Army, established in 1942 |
| Zoot Suit Riots | racial clashes in Los Angeles in 1943 between mobs of sailors and marines and Mexican American youths who wore zoot suits |
| Role of citizens in helping war effort | U.S. businesses mobilize their resources to serve the military’s need. |
| Adolf Hitler | German Nazi dictator. |
| Josef Goebbels | German Minister of propoganda |
| Anti-Semitic propaganda | printed false stories about Jewish crimes and focused on the superiority of the Aryan race. |
| “Kristallnacht” | Ministry of Propaganda arranged this night as retaliation for the assassination of a German Embassy official in Paris by a Jewish student. |
| “The Jewish Question” | Hitler believed the way to restore Germany’s purity and greatness was to exterminate all the Jews. First attempts were mobile killing squads. |
| “Final Solution” | Built gas chambers inside concentration camps that could hold 3,000 victim at a time. Zyklon B Was used to exterminate the Jews. |
| Wannsee Conference | Held in January, planned effective system of camps that could work to coordinate the “Final Solution” |
| Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | most famous ghetto revolt led by Jewish Fighters Organization. Over 56,000 Jews killed to 9 Nazis killed and 86 injured. |
| Holocaust | the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of Jews and other minority groups by the Nazis |
| Genocide | the systematic killing of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| North Africa Campaign | Hitler wanted to monopolize oil and cut off oil supply to the Allies. |
| Battle of Stalingrad - Counter Offensive | a key Soviet victory during World War II that ended Hitler's effort to conquer the USSR a large-scale military counterattack by a force that was previously on the defensive |
| “Theatres of War” (European/ Atlantic, Pacific, North Africa ) | Battle locations of WW2. |
| “Island-Hopping” or “Leapfrogging Strategy” | an American strategy in the Pacific during World War II in which islands heavily defended by the Japanese were bypassed in order to capture nearby islands that were not well defended |
| Erwin Rommel (the Desert Fox) “Afrika Korps” and the “Atlantic Wall” | sent by Hitler, Rommel and his Afrika Korps went to France to fortify its beaches. Rommel asparagus tactic would rip apart gliders that were trying to land. |
| Bernard Law Montgomery | a British force commanded by General Bernard L. Montgomery pushed Germans and Italians westward from Egypt. |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | a second Allied army led by Eisenhower advanced eastward from Algeria and Morocco and they won. |
| Dover England | info from German scout planes was fake. Guns and vehicles were fake to trick Germans into thinking that invasions would happen at Pas de Calais. |
| Operation Overlord/D-Day invasion (June 6, 1944) | June 6, 1944, the day that the Allied invasion of German-occupied France began |
| Beaches of Normandy (Juno, Sword, Gold, Utah, Omaha) | 50 mile stretch of beaches was divided into 5 regions for invasion with code names. |
| Battle of the Bulge | Hitler attempted to split the Allied forces in two but instead created a bulge. Largest battle fought by American forces. Hitler commits suicide after. |
| Doolittle Raiders | Began bombing Japan from the air. |
| Douglas MacArthur | Supreme Allied Commander in the Southwest Pacific was forced out of the Philippines claiming he will return and he did. |
| Bataan Death March | Forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of around 72,000 to 78,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war. Weren’t being fed and couldn’t stop. If they did they would be executed in the spot. |
| Battle of Midway | the U.S. naval victory in the Pacific during World War II that stopped Japanese expansion and forced Japan to focus on defense |
| Battle of Iwo Jima | Japan begins use of the kamikaze tactic meaning fight until the death. One of the bloodiest battles. Allied victory caused a perfect staging area to invade Japan. |
| Battle of Okinawa | the U.S. victory in World War II that positioned the Allies for an invasion of Japan |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minster of Canada and helped British not loose to the Germans. |
| Potsdam Conference | Meeting of the big 3 in Germany. Truman learns that the atomic bomb test worked and chooses not to tell Stalin and use it on Japan. |
| Manhattan Project | the top-secret U.S. government project that developed the atomic bomb |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | Director of Manhattan Project. |
| Leslie Groves | Developed the first atomic bomb. |
| Harry S. Truman and his decision to use the atomic bomb | Truman decides to bomb two of the Japanese cities. |
| Enola Gay | Dropped the atomic bomb known as “Little Boy” on Hiroshima. |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki (August 6 and 9, 1945) | U.S. bombed two key Japanese cities after the attack on Pearl Harbor killing many civilians. |
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