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Unit 8 - WWII

Vocabulary and People for WWII unit at PVHS

QuestionAnswer
Appeasement the policy of giving Hitler what he wanted to maintain the peace. Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, for example.
Axis Powers The fascist side in WWII – Germany, Italy, Japan
Isolationism The belief that America’s best interests would be served if we did not get involved in European affairs.
Third Reich The Nazi State in Germany
Munich Conference A meeting of the Germans, Italians, French, and British where the fate of Czechoslovakia’s Sudaten was decided
non-aggression pact an agreement between Hitler and Stalin that allowed Hitler to focus his attention on France and England.
Polish corridor a narrow strip of territory that separated Germany from E. Prussia and contained the port city of Danzig.
Blitzkrieg “Lightning War” where forces struck quickly with a combination of infantry, artillery, and air support.
phony war the period between the declaration of WWII and the invasion of France by Germany.
Maginot line French defensive fortifications along the French/German border meant to discourage an invasion. It didn’t work.
Siegfried line German defensive fortifications along the French/German border meant to discourage an invasion.
Dunkirk a small French town on the English Channel where over 300,000 English and French troops were rescued from Nazi capture.
Free French a government in exile lead by General Charles de Gaulle
Luftwaffe German Air Force
Lend-Lease Act American supplies support Allied war efforts
Atlantic Charter Allied goals for post-war world
“island hopping” American strategy in the Pacific
Aryans Hitler’s “Master Race”
Holocaust Nazi Germany’s murder of 6 million European Jews
Kristallnacht “night of broken glass” and attacks on German Jews
Refugee someone who has been forced from their home due to war or fighting
anti-Semitism hatred of Jews
ghettos areas or sections of a city where Jews were forced to live
final solution Hitler’s plan to eliminate the Jews
genocide extermination of a people or culture
the SS Hitler’s bodyguards and death camp workers
Auschwitz the biggest concentration camp complex of the war
Internment to lock someone, or a large group of people up without a trial.
Kamikaze Divine Wind
Nuremberg Trials reckoning for the Nazi war criminals
Demilitarization to take away the army
Diet Japanese Parliament
Rape of Nanjing Japanese atrocity perpetrated on China
Sudatenland main topic of conversation at the Munich Conference
D-Day Allied return to Europe
Battle of Britain “Never before have so many owed so much to so few…”
Battle of the Bulge Germany’s last push
Leningrad longest and most costly siege in history, and a huge failure for the German army
Battle of Stalingrad turning point battle on the Eastern Front of the European theater
Pearl Harbor a day that will live in infamy… 12/7/1941
Battle of Midway turning point battle in the Pacific
Vichy Government puppet government in France
Doolittle Raid American answer to the attack on Pearl Harbor
Battle of Guadalcanal The bloodiest of the Island Hopping campaign
Bataan Death March Japanese atrocity perpetrated on American POW's
North African Campaign WWII from Morocco to Egypt
Winston Churchill Britain’s wartime Prime Minister
Franklin D. Roosevelt America’s wartime President
Harry Truman American President who dropped the “A-bomb”
Hirohito Japan’s “divine” leader
Yamamoto Japan’s naval genius
Tojo Japan’s ruthless military leader
Adolf Hitler der Führer
Benito Mussolini Il Duce
Josef Stalin ruthless Russian totalitarian
Douglas MacArthur American commander in Pacific
Dwight D. Eisenhower American commander in Europe
Charles de Gaulle Leader of the Free French
General Erwin Rommel The Desert Fox
General Bernard Montgomery British desert genius
Francisco Franco Spanish fascist
General Zhukov defender of Leningrad and Stalingrad
P.M. Neville Chamberlain Mr. “Peace in our Time”
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