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american history- un
american history-part II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allied Power | alliance formed during World War II between the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union |
| atomic bomb | a powerful bomb that uses the energy suddenly released when atoms split |
| Axis Powers | alliance formed during World War II between Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| concentration camps | prisons camps operated by Nazi Germany in which Jews and other groups considered to be enemies of Adolf Hitler were starved while doing slave labor or were tortured and murdered |
| D-Day | the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944, to drive out Hitler’s occupying armies |
| death camps | Nazi extermination centers where Jews and non-Jews were brought to be put to death as part of Hitler’s Final Solution |
| genocide | the deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular racial, national, or religious group |
| Hiroshima | city in Japan on which the United States dropped the first atomic bomb |
| Holocaust | the attempted extermination of all Jews in Europe and other groups by Nazis during World War II, resulting in the mass murder of about six million Jews |
| isolationism | a policy that advocates freedom from foreign alliances |
| Nagasaki | city in Japan on which the United States dropped the second atomic bomb |
| postwar | period after a war |
| Selective Service and Training Act | law passed by President Roosevelt and Congress to draft men into military training |
| strategy | plan |
| V-E Day | the day Germany’s surrender became official, May 8, 1945 |
| V-J Day | the day Japan surrendered, August 14, 1945 |
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