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WORLD WAR II
The Allies
• US
• Great Britain
• France
• Russia
• China
USA---FDR
Great Britain---Winston Churchill
France---Charles DeGaulle
Russia---Joseph Stalin
China---Chiang Kai-Shek
The Axis
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
Germany---Adolf Hitler
Italy---Benito Mussolini
Japan---Hideki Tojo
Vocabulary
• Dictatorship--- Total control by one person or group. No personal freedoms
• Fascism--- A form of government that is extremely nationalistic. Property ownership is allowed but dissent is forbidden
• Nazism--- Hitler’s brand of Fascism. Leader chooses the property owners. Includes nationalism that becomes racism
• Third Reich--- Hitler’s third empire supposed to last 1,000 years, lasted 12.
• SS--- Hitler’s private army and bodyguards, greatly feared, operated the death camps.
• Gestapo--- German state secret police
ADD TO NOTES
• Isolationism--- Sealing off a country from the rest of the world ( not getting involved in world affairs). USA did this until 1941.
• Mein Kampf---Hitler’s book written in 1924 while in prison---details his plan for world domination
German occupation in Europe
With this paper, We will have peace in our time.
Appeasement
• Giving in to a Bully. Letting a country or person get away with something in the hopes it will stop.
Hitler and Stalin
Less than a year
German Military TermsBlitzkreig---Lightning WarWehrmacht---German ArmyLuftwaffe---German Airforce
Dunkirk
DDay
• Dday invasion was an amphibious assault into German occupied France intended to serve as a Springboard toward retaking France and moving on to Germany.
Eisenhower
• Supreme Allied Commander of Forces in Europe.
MacArthur
• Commander of American Pacific forces
Nanking
Pearl Harbor
Bataan
Pacific theater v. Japan
ADD TO NOTES
• Island Hopping--- American strategy in the Pacific to create a flight path to the main island of Japan
• Kamikaze--- Last ditch effort of Japanese—turned planes into flying bombs. Suicide missions.
Atomic bomb
Fat Man Little Boy
Anti-Semitism
• Specific discrimination against the Jewish population
Genocide
• The attempt to eliminate an entire race of people
Internment Camp
• Camps set up by the United States to hold Japanese-Americans during war (driven by fear and distrust)