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Page 1: World  War 2

World War 2

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V-J Day

Victory of Japan Aug. 14, 1945

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V-E Day

Victory in Europe

WW2 ends

May 8, 1945

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Holocaust

Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany in 1930’s and 1940’s

Six million Jews died in concentration camps

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Battle of Midway

US Navy engaged Japanese Imperial Fleet in most decisive naval battle of WW2

US victory was turning point in war in Pacific

Japanese Navy aid and waste

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Appeasement

Policy of giving in to an aggressor’s demands in order to keep peace

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Battle of Bulge

Thousands of Allied troops mortally wounded to secure final victory

Germans staged last major offenses against Allies

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Blitzkrieg

Lightening war

1st bomb then move in with tanks and troops like against Poland

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Hiroshima

1st Japanese city US dropped bomb

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Nagasaki

2nd Japanese city US dropped a bomb

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Anti-Semitism

Prejudice, against Jews

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Allies

Britain, France, Russia, USA

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Totalitarianism

The government has total control of a persons life, dicatorship

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Axis Powers

Germany, Italy, and Japan formed Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis

Had agreements for Alliance cleared way of anti-democratic aggressor powers

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“Mein Kampf”

A book by Hitler of his obsessions

Became basic book of Nazi goals and ideology

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Concentration Camps

Detention center for civilians who are considered enemies of a country

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Pearl Harbor

General Tojo ordered surprise attack on American fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

US declared war on Japan

1942, 2,403 died

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Partition

Dividing and sparation

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Lend-Lease Act

It allowed FDR to sell or lend war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense to US

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Lebensraum

Living space for German Race

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Kamikaze

Japanese pilots who under took suicide missions crashing their explosive-laden airplanes into American Warships

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Ribbentrop- Molotov Pact

German- Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

To divide Poland

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Atomic Bomb

Nagasaki and Hiroshima got A Bombed

Japanese cities

Americans set bomb

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Yalta Agreement

Feb. 1945

Churchill, FDR, Stalin met in SU discussed post war

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Potsdam Agreement

Agree on policy for occupation and reconstruction of Germany and other nations

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FDR

Pres. US WW2

(32) pres. of US

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Joseph Stalin

Dictator of Russia during WW2

Fought Hitler

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Adolf Hitler

Leader of Nazi

Wrote Mein Kampf

Dictator of Germany

Tried to eliminate Jews

Tried to take over Europe

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Winston Churchill

Prime minister of Great Britain during WW2

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Benito Mussolini

Dictator of Italy- WW2

“IL Duce”

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Eisenhower

Allied Commander during WW2

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What was Europe's position towards Hitler's aggression?

Europe didn’t want another war they gave into Hitler appeasement

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How did Fascism take shape in Italy?

Mussolini- dictator came to power governed due to poor leadership, high unemployment, high taxes, promoted nationalism

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Who were the major players on the global stage?

Axis- Germany, Japan, Italy, France, US, Great Britain

Allies- Russia

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How Nazism took place in Germany?

Hitler promoted Nationalism poor leadership and bad economic condition and resentment to treaty of Vers.

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What was the attitude of US before US hit of Pearl Harbor?

The US wanted to stay out of the war policy

isolationism

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Some major battles of WW2?

D-dayBattle of BulgeBattle of MidwayVJ DayVE Day

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Why were casualties so high?

Weapons more advanced

Planes dropped bombs, A-bomb, tanks, aircraft carriers, subs

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Causes of WW2?

Germany invades Poland

Economic Depression

Militarism, Nationalism, Imperialism

Germany angry over Treaty of Vers.

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What were the Questions the US had to ask to dropping the A-bomb?

Should US bomb city to save many US soldiers lives to end the war?


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