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SC 745-World War II
SC 7-World War II 7-4-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aggression | warlike acts against other nations |
| conscription | required military service (draft) |
| demilitarized (zone) | area or zone where military troops were not allowed--In this case the German troops (DMZ) |
| appeasement | giving in to the "reasonable demands" of an unhappy nation to avoid war |
| Anschluss | Hitler's unification of Germany and Austria |
| Munich Pact | After taking Austria, Hitler demanded the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. European leaders meet at a conference in Munich to discuss Hitler's demands. Britain and France gave in to Hitler. In exchange, Hitler agreed to stop taking land (he lied) |
| Rome-Berlin Axis | In 1936, Italy and Germany created this axis (alliance) around which they believed all of Europe revolved (- the center of their world) |
| blitzkrieg | "lightning war" this tactic used columns of tanks and soldiers supported by airplanes to roll over opponents |
| strategic materials | materials important to fighting |
| D-Day | Under the command of U.S. General Eisenhower Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France. The invasion was the start of one of the greatest naval invasions in history bringing men and equipment onto the mainland of Europe to fight Hitler |
| Allies | Great Britain, France, Russia, United States |
| December 7, 1941 | Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, HI. the United States enters WWII |
| June 6, 1944 | D-Day |
| May 7, 1945 | Hitler commits suicide, German commanders surrender |
| August 6 & 9, 1945 | American drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| September 2, 1945 | Japan signs unconditional surrender. WWII ends |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | American President during war |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | First Lady, visited soldiers, pro- civil rights |
| Rosie the Riveter | symbol of women’s strength and ability to contribute to the war effort, propaganda |
| Jimmy Doolittle | leader of the Doolittle Raid, America’s first air attack against Japan after Pearl Harbor |
| Dwight Eisenhower | American military commander, D-Day |
| Francisco Franco | leads Spanish rebels in civil war, more closely aligned with Hitler and Mussolini than FDR and Churchill |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of Germany during the war |
| Benito Mussolini | leader of Italy during the war, will be executed before the war is over |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet leader during the war |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister during the war |
| Charles De Gaulle | the French leader during the war |
| Anne Frank | famously hid in an attic in Amsterdam, was eventually discovered, sent to a concentration camp, and died just before being liberated |
| Josef Mengele | the “Angel of Death” at Auschwitz, responsible for thousands of deaths, largely of twin children, in the name of “science” for the Nazis |
| Harry Truman | FDR’s last vice president, didn’t know about the Manhattan Project until FDR died and he became president, gave permission for the atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan |
| Erwin Rommel | German commander, fought Montgomery in North Africa, lost at El Alamein |
| Bernard Montgomery | British commander, fought Rommel in North Africa, victorious at El Alamein |
| Himmler | head of gestapo and SS, in charge of concentration and extermination camps |
| Goebbels | head of Nazi propaganda |
| Heidrich | SS leader, organized ghettos |
| Eichmann | organized transportation to concentration and extermination camps |
| Goring | commander of Luftwaffe |
| Oscar Schindler | a German who is credited with keeping around 1,200 Jews from being sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust |
| Hideki Tojo | Japan’s military leader during the war, executed after the war for war crimes against humanity |
| Emperor Hirohito | Emperor of Japan during the war, surrendered after two atomic bombs were dropped, was not indicted after the war and remained a figurehead for the Japanese people |
| (Navajo) Code Talker | Native Americans who communicated secret and tactical messages using native tribal languages |
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mhardy
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