Pd 5 WWII Vocab Word Scramble
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Definition | Term |
The status of a military when operating under a state of war | War Footing |
An extensive system of coastal defense and fortifications as a defense against an anticipated allied invasion | Atlantic Wall |
Global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 it involved the vast majority of the world’s countries | World War ll |
Germany, Italy, and Japan grew out diplomatic efforts to secure their own expansionist interests in the mid-1930s | Axis Powers |
"Britain, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, Soviet Union, China, and the US were all against the Axis Powers during World War ll." | Allied Powers |
A flat bottomed vessel to move things across water | Landing craft |
"Invading as an enemy like an army." | Invasion |
A defense mechanism to protect things from light tanks and vehicles | Czech hedgehog |
IMT. | International Military Tribunals |
UN Meeting that stated anyone who commits a crime of Genocide will be published. | UN Genocide Convention |
"Twelve trials that took place in Nuremberg, Germany for those accused of war crimes during WWII." | Nuremberg Trials |
Event during WWII where over six million Jews were killed | Holocaust |
" “Special detachment” of prisoners who were forced to dispose gas chamber victims." | Sonderkommandos |
Known as the "SS"; a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler | Schutzstaffel |
Death march from Auschwitz to Wodzislaw and Gliwice | January 18-27 1945 |
a three part concentration and extermination camp. | Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
A member of a special corps in the Japanese airfares charged with the suicidal mission of crashing a aircraft laden with explosives in a enemy target | Kamikaze |
The process of military struggle between to nations or groups of nations | Warfare |
Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
The model of plane the Japanese used for aerial kamikaze attacks | Japanese Zero Aircraft |
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