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World War II unit10s
World War II vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Totalitarian State | country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of people’s lives |
| Facism | political system that is rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state |
| Nazi | member of the National Socialist Workers Party in Germany before & during WW2 |
| Scapegoat | person or group who is made to bear the blame for others |
| Concentration Camp | prison camp for civilians who are considered enemies of the state (where Jews and others were sent in WWII) |
| Munich Conference | a 1938 meeting of the leaders of Britian, France, Italy, and Germany at which an agreement was signed giving part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler |
| Appeasement | practice of giving in to aggression to avoid conflict |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | agreement signed between Hitler and Stalin in 1939 in which the two dictators agreed not to attack each other |
| Blitzkreig | swift attacks launched by Germany during WW2 |
| Axis Powers | WWII military alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan, and six other nations |
| Allied Powers | WWII military alliance of Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and 45 other countries |
| Cash and Carry Plan | American policy w/ England; England could buy war supplies IF they paid cash & sent their own ships to the US to pick them up |
| Lend Lease Act | laws that allowed the US to sell arms & equipment to Britain |
| Rationing | limitations on the amount of certain goods that people can buy |
| Rosie the Riveter | fictional factory worker who became a symbol of American women’s contribution to the war effort during WWII |
| Relocation Camps/Internment Camps | detention camps established primarily for persons of Japanese descent in the United States during World War II |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944; day of the invasion of Western Europe by Allied forces |
| Island Hopping | Allied strategy during WW2 of capturing Japanese held islands to gain control of the Pacific Ocean |
| Kamikaze | WWII Japanese pilot trained to make a suicidal crash attack, usually upon a ship |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Two Japanese cities where the Allies dropped the atomic bomb in August of 1945 |
| Holocaust | slaughter of Europe’s Jewish population by the Nazis before & during the war |
| Nuremburg Trails | Nazi war crimes trials held in 1945 and 1946 |
| Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941. Japanese attack US naval base in Hawaii. US enters WWII |
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