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8th grade SS WWl

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TermDefinition
Totalitarian state A single party controls the government and every aspect of people’s lives
Fascism A form of government rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state.
Josef Stalin Totalitarian dictator of Communist Soviet Union
Benito Mussolini Totalitarian dictator and ruler of Fascist Italy.
rearmament The act of rebuilding a country’s military after having downsized due to disarmament.
Aggression A warlike act by one country against another
Nazi Party The national Socialist German Workers party. Political party that controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Adolf Hitler Dictator of Germany and leader of the Nazi party.
Scapegoat A person or group on who to falsely blame problems.
Concentration Camps Prison camps for civilians who were considered enemies of the state.
Neutrality Acts Acts passed by Congress in 1935 which banned sales of weapons to countries at war.
Anti-Semitism Prejudice or hatred directed against Jewish people.
Militarism Building up armed forces.
Munich Conference A 1983 agreement in which Hitler promised that it would seek no further territory once it had acquired the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
Appeasement Giving in to aggression in order to avoid war.
Nazi-Soviet Pact A 1939 Pact in which Hitler and Stalin agreed to not attack one another, and divide Poland and other Eastern European territories.
Blitzkrieg Lightning war
Axis powers Alliance between Germany, Japan, and Italy . Pact of Steel.
Allied Powers alliance between Britain, France, The Soviet union, United States, and 45 other countries.
Battle of Britain German warplanes dropped bombs on London and other cities in great Britain for months.
Lend-Lease Act Congressional act that allowed for the sale of weapons and war materials to countries that were considered “vital to the defense of the United States”.
Atlantic Charter Agreement between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt signed in 1941 which set goals for the postwar world. ( Goals such as seeking no further territory, self-determination, a permanent alliance of nations)
Pearl Harbor Attack December 7th, 1941. U.S. fleet was attacked by naval and air forces of Japanese. Resulting in 2,400 deaths and near destruction of U.S. Pacific fleet.
War production Board Helped factories shift from making consumer goods to making weapons and materials for war.
Rationing Limitations on the amounts of goods that people could buy during the war.
Rosie The Riveter A fictional factory worker who became a symbol of women’s role in contributing to the war effort through work in weapons production.
Relocation Camps Camps created to place Japanese American citizens of the U.S. as a result of wartime paranoia.
Battle of Midway Turning point of the war in the Pacific. American planes sunk 4 Japanese aircraft carriers.
Operation Overlord Code name for the operation to invade Normandy, France and liberate Europe from Nazi control.
D-Day June 6th, 1944. Name given for the day of the invasion of France.
Battle of the Bulge German counter attack that pushed back the allied forces approaching Germany.
V-E Day Victory in Europe Day. May 7th, 1945.
Island Hopping Allied plan for victory in the pacific against Japan by conquering one island at a time. Each island became a stepping stone toward Japan.
Kamikaze Suicide missions in which Japanese pilots loaded their planes with bombs and deliberately crashed them into allied ships.
Potsdam Declaration Allied leaders sent a message of warning to Japan to surrender or face “prompt and utter destruction”
Hiroshima A Japanese city on which the U.S. used the first atomic bomb . At least 70,000 people were killed as a result. Many more would die from radiation.
Nagasaki Second Japanese city to be hit by U.S. atomic attack.
Holocaust The systematic slaughter of Jews from Germany and other nations conquered by the Nazis.
Nuremberg Trials 12 Nazi leaders were sentenced to death and many other leaders imprisoned for “crimes against humanity”.
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