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World War II
Various terms and names related to WWII
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8th Grade
02/07/2011

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Holocaust
Definition
Killing of 6 million Jews
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Axis
Definition
Germany, Japan, & Italy
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Hitler's policies
Definition
Remove all Jews from Europe
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German/Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Definition
Russia to stay out of war
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Good Neighbor Policy
Definition
Better relations w/ Latin America
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Totalitarian State
Definition
Nation comes first, Individuals come second
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Luftwaffe
Definition
German airforce
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Allies
Definition
USA, Great Britain, Soviet Union, & France
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Mussolini's Policies
Definition
Control of press & no gov't criticism
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Hideki Tojo
Definition
Japanese Prime Minister
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Joseph Stalin
Definition
Russian leader
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Royal Air Force (RAF)
Definition
Great Britain airforce
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Neutrality Acts
Definition
No trading w/ countries at war
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Dunkirk
Definition
Battle at French seaport
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Washington Conference
Definition
Opposition to war
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Kellogg-Briand Pact
Definition
Condemned war to solve conflicts
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Appeasement
Definition
Pacify; make one happy
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Scapegoats
Definition
Blaming a group for your problems
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Kristallnact
Definition
Destroy Jewish property
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Fascism
Definition
Preach racial/religious hatred
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Adolf Hitler
Definition
Leader of Nazi Germany
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Benito Mussolini
Definition
Italian dictator
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Lend-Lease Act
Definition
U.S. "lent" materials/cash to England
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Winston Churchill
Definition
British Prime Minister
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Definition
United States president
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Swastika
Definition
Symbol of Nazi Germany
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Blitzkrieg
Definition
Lightning war
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Operation Barbarossa
Definition
German invasion of Russia (Hitler's BIG mistake)
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Germany's strategy for Barbarossa
Definition
-Capture Russian oil fields and industrial areas
-Thought it would only take 3 months
-Wanted to break Russia's economic power
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Russia's strategy for Barbarossa
Definition
-Barter space for time
-Force Germans to get own supplies
-Let Germans try to survive winter extremes
-Partisans were to prey on German communication
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Battle of Stalingrad
Definition
Turning point in war on eastern front
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Bataan Death March
Definition
Japanese forced American POW troops on a brutal death march in the Philippines
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Eisenhower
Definition
General that commanded the invasion of North Africa
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Battle of Coral Sea
Definition
Japanese were halted in this aerial war
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Battle of Midway
Definition
Turning point of the war in the Pacific
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Battle of El Alamein
Definition
Allied victory in North Africa
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Battle of the Bulge
Definition
Germany's last attempt to win the war in Europe
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Guadalcanal
Definition
First offensive in the island hopping campaign
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Malmedy Massacre
Definition
Murder of 81 POW's by German troops
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Pearl Harbor
Definition
Surprise attack by Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941
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Leyte Gulf
Definition
US victory that cut off Japanese supply lines
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Iwo Jima
Definition
Volcanic island with hundreds of tunnels dug by Japanese; one of the bloodiest battles
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The Final Solution
Definition
Hitler's plan to remove all Jews from Europe
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General Rommel
Definition
In charge of the German Afrika Korps
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Nuremberg Trial
Definition
Leading Nazis tried for their war crimes
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G.I. Bill of Rights
Definition
provided a free education, job training, and loan guarantees to war veterans
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Marshall Plan
Definition
plan to rebuild the economies of Europe after the war
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Oppenheimer
Definition
Creator of the atomic bomb
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Manhattan Project
Definition
Name given to the development of the atomic bomb
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Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Definition
Cities where the atomic bomb was dropped
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Enola Gay and Bocks Car
Definition
Planes used to drop atomic bombs
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Fat man/Little Boy
Definition
Little boy was first atomic bomb
Fat man was second
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