Skinner World War II Vocab List (1939-1945)
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| Anti-Semitism | show 🗑
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| show | The three countries- Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan- fighting teh allies during World War II
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| show | British Prime Minister who tried to avoid war with Germany
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| show | A place of imprisonment for political foes, members of minority groups, or prisoners of war, often characterized by harsh conditions, brutal guards, and torture
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| show | A political philosophy characterized by dictatorship, extreme nationalism, and suppression of opposition, backed by an aggressive military
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| show | The systematic killing of a radical, ethnic, or religious group, or destruction of their culture
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| show | Originally, a term referring to the area of European cities to which Jews were restricted and where they were required to live. Currently means an economically depressed area populated by a racial or ethnic minority group
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| show | The murder of approximately 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies between 1933 and 1945. Literally means "destruction by fire"
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| show | Abbreviation for the National Socialist German Workers' Party, led by Hitler, that took power in Germany in 1933
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| show | Hitler's name for Germany during his years as dictator, 1933-1945- literally the "third empire"
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| show | An Italian general, politician and later dictator who abolished democracy and outlawed all political parties in Italy. He formed a fascist government in the 1920's, was known as "il Duce".
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| show | German dictator of the Nazi party, dreamed of creatinga master Aryan race.
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| show | an autobiography Hitler wrote while in jail, means "My Struggle," blames Germany's problems on the communists, capitalists, and Jews.
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| show | the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war.
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| show | A =spanish general and Fascist dictator led a revolt during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930's
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| show | 1938, meeting of representatives from Britain (Chamberlain) and Germany (Hitler), under which Germany was allowed to extend it's territory into parts of Czechoslovakia (pure appeasement)
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| show | "Lightning War"; a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces, resulted in the swiftGermanconquest of France.
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| show | French general and political leader helped reconquer France from Nazi rule.
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| show | Series of battles between German (Luftwaffe) and British air forces (RAF). The Germans sought to control the air, but was thwarted by British resistance.
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| show | Declaration of principles which the Allied peace plan was based on at the end of WWII.
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| show | Head of Nazi forces in Northern Africa (Desert Fox), master of the Blitzkrieg
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| show | 1942-1943, German forces were defeated in an attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad in the Soviet Union, major turning point of the war in favor of the Allies
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| show | Japanese suicide pilots that were trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them.
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| show | a town inNorthernFrance, was the last refuge of the British during the fall of France. (desperate retreat)
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| Joseph Goebbels | show 🗑
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| show | close friend to Hitler, leader of the Luftwaffe
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| Heinrich Himmler | show 🗑
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| show | agreement reached near the end of WWII between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin after the defeat of Germany
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