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WWII (P6)
WORLD WAR II TEST REVIEW
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of Nazi Germany. Followers were called Brownshirts |
| Josef Stalin | Leader of the USSR/ Soviet Union |
| Benito Mussolini | Leader of Italy. Followers were called Blackshirts |
| Francisco Franco | Leader of Spain |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Britain |
| Hideki Tojo | Military leader of Japan |
| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan |
| FDR | Franklin D Roosevelt. President of the USA. Elected 4 times, but died before the end of the war |
| Harry Truman | US president who takes over after FDR dies. Makes the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan |
| Rosie the Riveter | Woman who became a symbol for millions of American women who helped build the military supplies helping us win the war. |
| Fascism | Began taking over in Europe in the 1920's and 20's. Placed the importance of the nation above the rights of the individual. |
| Axis Powers | Germany and Italy formed in 1936. Later joined by Japan. |
| Allied Powers | England, France and later the USA and Soviet Union. Teamed up to fight the Axis. |
| Austria | First country Germany annexed and took over in 1938 |
| Czechoslovakia | Promised NOT to invade them. Did it anyway in 1939 |
| Non- Agression Pact | Signed between Hitler and Stalin to not attack each other. Hitler attacked them anyway in 1941 with 3.6 million soldiers |
| Poland | Hitler invaded in 1939. This caused WWII to begin. |
| Japan | Looked to expand because of their growing population and raw materials |
| December 7, 1941 | Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. US joins the war officially |
| June 6, 1944 | Dwight Eisenhower led American soldiers at the invasion of Normandy, France. Known as D- Day |
| May 8, 1945 | V-E Day. Germany surrenders to Allied forces ending the war in Europe. |
| Midway and Coral Sea | Battles between the US and Japan that were fought totally in the air. |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide bombers who attacked US forces. They lost 4,900 pilots |
| Okinawa | Deadliest battle in all of the war with Japan |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Bomb number 1 and 2 dropped on Japan. |
| V-J day | August 14, 1945. End war with Japan |
| Soviet Union | Allied country with the most deaths |
| 405,400 | American deaths during WWII |
| Germany and Japan | Axis country with the most and second most deaths. |
| Aryan Race | Hitlers "Master Race" |
| Arbeit mach frie | means "Work will make you free". Posted on gates of concentration camps |
| Concentration camps | First opened in 1933. Used for Jews, Polish, Gypsies, etc |
| Gold Star of David | Patch/ logo Jews were required to wear to identify themself |
| Joseph Goebbels | Nazi propaganda minister. Hitler's head cheerleader. |
| Ghetto | Walled of parts of a city where Jews were placed and forced to live on 300 calories a day. |
| Einsatzgruppen | Hitler's mobile killing squad who killed many in Ukraine and Russia |
| Liberation | Concentration camps were freed and opened on 1945. |
| Atlantic Charter | A list that included eight principles for a better world, written during a meeting of President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in August 1941 |
| Appeasement | A policy of making political compromises in order to avoid conflict. |
| Holocaust | The mass slaughter by the Nazis of six million Jews and others during World War II |
| Kristallnacht | Night of broken glass" when Nazi brownshirts attacked and destroyed Jewish synagogues, businesses, and houses. |
| Luftwaffe | The German air force |
| Third Reich | Term used when Adolph Hitler believed he was creating a third German empire |
| Isolationism | A policy in which a nation stays out of the affairs of other nations |
| Ration | To control and limit the supply of goods made available to the public, especially in wartime. Often happened with food. |
| Refugee | A person seeking shelter and protection from political persecution |
| Internment Camps | A prison camp to hold enemy aliens and other prisoners of war during wartime |
| Purge | Removing or eliminating something |
| Island Hopping | A strategy that involves capturing and setting up military bases on island groups one island at a time |
| Navajo Code Talkers | The Marines enlisted these Native American men to transmit and translate messages using their native language, which the Japanese could not decode. |
| R.A.F. | Englands air force, the royal air force |
| 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 |
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