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Whitehall WWII Terms
WWII Terms---Shafer---Whitehall
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Soviet leader during WWII. Purged, or got rid of all who opposed him. | Joseph Stalin |
| Wrote Mein Kampf. Fascist leader of Germany | Adolf Hitler |
| National Socialist party of Germany. | Nazi |
| Discrimination or hatred of Jews. | Anti-Semitism |
| Locations where Germans sent Jews and undesirables to work and be exterminated. | Concentration Camps |
| Most famous and horrific of Nazi death camps. | Auschwitz |
| Called Operation Overlord. Allied invasion of France | D-Day |
| Policy of given in to demands. | Appeasement |
| Fascist leader of Italy. Friend of Adolf Hitler | Benito Mussolini |
| The idea of keeping peace or avoiding conflict. | Pacifism |
| Fascist leader of Spain. | Francisco Franco |
| Considered superior group to other groups. Nazi's wanted to get rid of those who didn't fit into this group. | Aryan Race |
| Leader of Britain at the start of WWII. Signed the Munich Aggrement and supported appeasement. | Neville Chamberlain |
| Agreement between European leaders prior to WWII. Gave in to Hitlers demands. | Munich Conference |
| Line of defenses created by the French prior to WWII. | Maginot Line |
| Agreement between Stalin and Hitler to not fight each other. | Non Agression Pact/Treaty |
| Means "Lightning War". German plan of attack | Blitzkrieg |
| Attack on Great Britain by Germany. Sometimes called the London Blitz | Operation Sea Lion |
| Name for allied invasion of France. | Operation Overlord |
| Royal British Air Force | RAF |
| German Air Force | Luftwaffe |
| German attack of Soviet Union | Operation Barbarossa |
| Used to influnce peoples opinion on given subjects. | Propaganda |
| American President at start of WWII. | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Event that brought the US into WWII. | Pearl Harbor |
| Date of attack on Pearl Harbor | Dec. 7 1941 |
| Germany, Italy, Japan | Axis Powers |
| France, GB, Russia. America will enter the war in support of the Allies in 1941. | Allied Powers |
| Battle for N. Africa. Major tank conflict between British and Germans. | El Alamein |
| Horrific battle for key Russian city. Nazi's lost as many as 300,000 troops here. | Stalingrad |
| Means "divine wind". Japanese suicide pilots. | Kamikaze |
| Major American victory at sea. Major parts of Japanese navy destroyed. | Battle of Midway |
| Emporer of Japan | Hirohito |
| Attempt to exterminate Jews and undesirables during WWII | Holocaust |
| Names of American atomic bombs. | Little Boy and Fat Man |
| Last stage of Holocaust | "the final solution" |
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