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Five Aspects of the Treaty of Versailles that Germany felt were unfair
1) War Reparations
2) Accept full responsibility
3) Could not maintain an army
4) Give back overseas colonies
5) Return Alsace-Lorraine to France
Fascism was found in ____
Italy
Fascist leader was ____
Benito Mussolini
Nazism was found in ___
Germany
Nazi Leader was ___
Adolf Hitler
Communism was found in ___
Soviet Union
Communist Leader
Joseph Stalin
Two presidents durning WWII
FDR
and Harry Truman
Democracy was found in
United States
Three countries that made up the Axis Powers
1) Italy
2) Germany
3) Japan
Appeasement
Policy of giving in to an enemy with the hopes of ending or preventing war

Hitler was appeased by the return of the Sudeteland
How was Hitler appeased?
Non-Aggression Pact
Two Countries who agree not to be hostile towards each other

Pact was between Germany and Soviet Union

Germany broke the pact
Four Freedoms
1) Freedom of Speech
2) Freedom of Worship
3) Freedom from Want
4) freedom from fear
Lend-Lease Act
Law passed by congress that allowed U.S. to give money and weapons to allied countries

this moved the U.S. closer to war
Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
Office of War Mobilization
Promoted propaganda
Office of Price Administration
Rationed certain supplies
Rosie the Riveter
Cultural icon representing American women

She encouraged women to join war efforts
Island Hopping
U.S. strategy adopted in the Pacific to reclaim lost islands to the Japanese

the U.S. faught Japan in the Pacific
Two Battled faught in the Pacific
Iwo Jima
and Okinawa
D-Day A.K.A. Operation Overlord
Took place on the beaches of Normandy, France

on June 6, 1944
Double V Campaign
Ended racism at home and Nazism abroad
Tuskegee Airmen
First African-American military aviators

Trained in Tuskegee, Alabama
Native Americans in the War
Sent and relayed messages in their native tongue

They were called Code Talkers
Japanese Internment Camps
Concentration-Type prisons where Japanese-Americans were held

they were used because of a fear that Japanese-Americans might be spies
Korematsu V. United States
Korematsu was a Japanese-American who sued the U.S. for violating his civil liberties

It was decided that it was more important to protect the country as a whole than his civil liberties
Battle of the Atlantic
German strategy was a blockade around Great Britain (hoping to starve them)

Convoys were used to escort merchant vessels so that they could reach their destination in England
Battle of Stalingrad
Between Germany and Soviet Union

Germans weren't prepared for the cold weather in the Soviet Union which caused them to lose the war

Soviet Union won
North African Campaign AKA Operation Torch
Allied powers were under command of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Axis powers were under the command of Erwin rommel AKA The Desert Fox
The Big Three
1) Franklin Roosevelt - United States
2) Joseph Stalin - Soviet Union
3) Winston Churchill - Great Britain
Manhattan Project
first atomic bomb - Little Boy

dropped on Hiroshima
Second Atomic Bomb
Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki
Anti-Semitism
Hatred and discrimination toward Jewish people
Genocide
Eradication of an entire ethnicity of people
Final Solution
Hitler's plan to rid the world of Jewish
Auschwitz
largest concentration camp

located in Poland

1.1 Million people died
Numberg Trail
Prosecution of prominent Nazi leaders in Hitler's inner circle

Three crimes
1) crimes against humanity
2) war crimes
3) crimes against peace

12 of the Nazi leaders were executed by hanging