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WWII
world war two
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History
10th Grade
05/05/2011

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Luftwaffe
Definition
the German Airforce
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Sitzkrieg
Definition
The sitting war
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Blitzkrieg
Definition
Lightning war
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Collaborators
Definition
traders to their own country
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Winston Churchill
Definition
replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime minister of England
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The Evacuation at Dunkerque
Definition
Britain troops get pushed to English channel and eaither need to evacuate and surrender, or fight. they leave and hitler lets them go.
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Hitlers biggest mistake
Definition
Letting britain go at the evacuation of dunkerque
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How long does it take france to surrender WW2?
Definition
6 weeks
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After Germany took over France, how was it divided?
Definition
North was Occupied France and South was Vichy France
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The Battle of Britain
Definition
Germany doing massive air raid attackts on Brittan almost daily for a year.
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R.A.F.
Definition
Royal Air Force that helped save Britain and used radar.
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Neutrality Acts of 1935 & 1937
Definition
Said U.S. wouldnt loan money to warring nations, our ships wont go into war zones, U.S.citizens wont ride ships of warring nations, and we wont give up equiptment to warring nations. and that we will stay neutral in future wars.
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Neutrality Acts of 1939
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Allowed american businesses to sell war materials on a cash and carry basis.
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Lend- Lease Act of 1941
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authorized President to supply war materials to Britain on Credit
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The Atlantic Charter
Definition
President Roosevelt and Churchill meet to outline what we wanted to get out of WW2
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The Battle of El Alamein
Definition
Germany attacks Egypt for the first time, they want to get to the Middle East to get to the oil. British held Germanys advances
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Massive Attack on Soviet Union
Definition
Germans go against his and Stalins non agression pact and attack soviet union
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The scorched Earth Policy
Definition
Soviet Union did this for the second time
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Japans goal
Definition
to take over and extend their control in east Asia
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Vietnam(French Indochina)
Definition
put under protective custody by china
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December 7, 1941
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Pearl Harbor
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Pearl Harbor
Definition
U.S. major naval base, bombed by Japan. This was a suprise attack and killed about 23,000 people and 5 of our 8 battleships were sunk.
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Declaration of war on Japan
Definition
December 8, 1941
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Hitlers "New Order"
Definition
Wanted to make the European continent into one single political and economic system and run it from Berlin
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the Final Solution
Definition
Hitlers program to eliminate the jewish race
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Holocaust
Definition
A systematic destruction of the jews
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Heinrich Himmler
Definition
The head of the Schutzstaffel(SS)
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SS
Definition
the eliete core of officers placed in charge of holocaust
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Krystalnacht
Definition
"The night of glass" When the gestapo went through the jewish ghettos and busted it up. Started to take jews away to concsentration camps
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The Wannsee Conference
Definition
Finalized plans for the holocaust and started building death camps in Poland.
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2 infamous death camps
Definition
Auschwitz & Treblinka
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2 infamous consentration camps
Definition
Dachaw & Buchenwald
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Oskar Schindler
Definition
German industrialist, had a contract with Germany to make war materials. When he found out about what the Nazis were doing he helped the Jews out and acted like he needed workers but instead freed Jews (:
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Turning Point of the War
Definition
Germans Surrendering to Soviets in 1943
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Definition
Commander of U.S. forces and eventually becomes president
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Marshal Pietro Badoglio
Definition
Italian Premier after Mussolinis hanging. and his first thing he did was out law the Facsist party.
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Battle Of Anzio
Definition
Italy against U.S. and Britian. The italians surrender then join the Allies in September and then they declare war on Germany.
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General Douglas MacArthur
Definition
Was there with the troops during the attack of the Philippines from Japan.
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the Bataan Death March
Definition
When japanese forced over 78,000 prisoners of war to march the philippines under extreme conditions.
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Battle of the Coral Sea
Definition
U.s. and Austrailian forces defeated the japanese fleet heading to austrailia
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Battle of Midway
Definition
Japan sent most of their fleet to midway island and U.S. meets them and crushesss them.
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Island Hoppping
Definition
Skipping around all the islands out of order so that japan wouldnt know what they would do next
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Unconditional Surrender
Definition
the allies would accept nothing less than this.
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D-Day
Definition
Operation Overlord, June 1944, the invasion of France from allies in Normandy. It was Massive and U.S. had over a million tropps in france within 1 month.
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Battle of the Bulge (;
Definition
Germanys last offensive move. from December 1944 to January 1945. Allies get a victory.
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General George S. Patton
Definition
nicknamed "blood and Guts" and was in charge of U.S. troops at the battle of the Bulge
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Yalta Conference
Definition
Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin meet and did 4 things.
1. Formed the United NAtions to keep peace
2. Decided Germany would be spilt into 4 parts and they would each occupy a section.
3. Free elections would be held in all the liberated countries.
4. Soviets said they would enter the war against Japan.
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Yalta Conference
Definition
Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin meet and did 4 things.
1. Formed the United NAtions to keep peace
2. Decided Germany would be spilt into 4 parts and they would each occupy a section.
3. Free elections would be held in all the liberated countries.
4. Soviets said they would enter the war against Japan.
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V-E Day
Definition
Victory in Europe. Allies take the unconditional surrender from the remanining Axis powers.
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf
Definition
U.S. defeats Japanses and takes back control of Philippines.
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Iwo Jima
Definition
Massive marine invasion and the last japanese possesion to fall.
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Okinawa
Definition
the first japannese island that the allies took.
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Potsdom Conference
Definition
Stalin, President Harry Truman, and Clement Atlee meet to discuss:
1. the more detailed occupation of Germany and decided to divide Berlin also
2. Poland boarder issues
3. what to do with captured Nazi officials
4. Demand on unconditional surrender from Japan.
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the Manhattan Project
Definition
the code name for the atomic bomb being made in the U.S.
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Robert Oppenheimer
Definition
was in charge of the Manhattan Project
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Kami Kazi Pilots
Definition
Means "divine Winds" they were suicide bombers for Japan
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Hiroshima
Definition
where first atomic bomb was dropped in Japan killing 80,000 people instantly
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Nagasaki
Definition
Second bomb was dropped here with over 40,000 people killed
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V-J Day
Definition
Victory in Japan. September 2, 1945 ending WWII ! :D
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Maquis
Definition
french term for the scrubby undergrowth common in the areas where resistance fighters hid
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Philippe Petain
Definition
a hero of WWI and formed a government and assumed dictorial powers.
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Charles de Gaulle
Definition
under his leadership some French who wanted to continue to fight Germany formed the Free French Government
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