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G146 - World War II
Mr. Dowd's Class - Unit 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Holocaust | The systematic killing of Jewish people |
| D-Day | The allied invasion of the French port Normandy where they eventually defeated the German forces, and later liberated France |
| Pearl Harbor | A US base near Hawaii that was attacked by Japanese forces, drawing the US into World War 2 |
| Bataan Death March | When Japanese soldiers forced allied prisoners of war to march across a Pacific peninsula, while subjecting them to brutal treatment and death |
| Hiroshima/Nagasaki | The two Japanese cities on which the US dropped atomic bombs |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots |
| Island Hopping | General MacArthur's strategy for defeating the Japanese in the Pacific by capturing under-protected islands closer to the island country |
| Blitzkrieg | Hitler's strategy of attacking with fast moving weapons, planes, and tanks, followed by a large infantry force, means "Lightning War" |
| Genocide | The systematic killing of a "race", religion, or ethnic group |
| Atomic Bomb | A nuclear weapon whose power comes from the splitting of an atom, the US dropped two of these on Japanese cities |
| United Nations | An international organization that tries to promote peace and global cooperation |
| Women at Work | The main American working group on the home front during World War 2 |
| Civilians at War | When a country sends its people to fight for it, in a draft-like manner, or to defend their city from an invasion |
| The Battle of Britain | A conflict between the "Luftwaffe" and the Royal Air Force where Hitler tried to gain an opportunity for a German invasion of Great Britain |
| Non Aggression Pact | An agreement between Germany and the USSR to refrain from fighting each other, Hitler broke this agreement |
| Dunkirk | The French port where the French troops were cornered by German forces, although they were eventually rescued by British ships, Germany was able to take France |
| Battle of the Bulge | A conflict in which German forces attacked a weak spot in the allied line in the Ardennes region, the allies held their position and eventually forced the Germans out |
| Midway | A US base that was attacked by Admiral Yamamoto and the Japanese fleet due to its strategic location, the US forces drove the Japanese out with a clever trap |
| Ghettos | Closed, isolated, segregated, and overcrowded areas where Jewish people were placed to starve to death |
| Final Solution | Hitler's last plan to cleanse his country of Jewish people: concentration camps and genocide |
| Concentration Camps | Places where the Nazis held and killed Jewish people |
| Japanese Internment Camps | Places in the US where Japanese-Americans were held so that they could not assist a possible Japanese invasion of the US |
| Kristallnacht | A mass terrorist attack on Jewish communities in response to the assassination of a German diplomat by Herschel Grynszpan |
| Aryans | The mistaken name for the German "Master Race" as advocated by Hitler |
| Stalingrad | A Russian city where German troops, led by Friedrich Paulus, were defeated by a Soviet counterattack in the winter after Hitler refused a retreat |
| Enola Gay | The B-29 aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima |
| Nuremberg Trials | A series of trials against Nazis and other war criminals after World War 2 |
| Democratization | The process of creating a government elected by the people, as done by Douglas MacArthur during the US occupation of Japan |
| Manhattan Project | A top secret project whose goal was to create an atomic bomb |
| Winston Churchill | The prime minister of Great Britain during World War 2 |
| Franklin Roosevelt | The US president during World War 2, he died suddenly before the German surrender |
| Mao Zedong | The communist leader in China |
| Charles de Gaulle | The French leader who called for and organized French resistance and Nazi fighting units after the German occupation of France |
| Josef Stalin | The totalitarian communist leader of the USSR, he succeeded Lenin |
| Adolf Hitler | The fascist dictator in Germany who led the Nazi party and wrote "Mein Kampf" |
| Benito Mussolini | The fascist dictator in Italy who led his country during World War 2 |
| Tojo | The Japanese Prime Minister who ordered the attack on Pearl Harbor |
| George Patton | The US general who led the liberation of France and helped lead the invasion of Normandy |
| Montgomery | The British general who defeated Erwin Rommel's "Afrika Korps" at El Alamein |
| Rommel | The German commander of the "Afrika Korps" who defeated the British at the Suez Canal and Tobruk |
| Dwight Eisenhower | The US general who led the allied forces at the invasion of Normandy |
| Harry Truman | The US president who took over after Roosevelt's death and received the Nazi surrender in World War 2 |
| Douglas MacArthur | The US general who came up with the "Island Hopping" strategy and led the US occupation of Japan |
| Yamamoto | Japan's most strategic naval admiral in World War 2 who led the attack on Midway |
| Oppenheimer | The American scientist who helped develop the atomic bomb |
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