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Allies |
France, Russia, Britain, America |
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Appeasement |
Policy to give threatening countries what they want in hopes of stopping their violence/aggression |
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Anti-semitism |
Hatred towards jewish |
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Axis powers |
Germany, Italy, Japan |
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Bataan Death March |
April 1942 Japanese POW's forced to walk 65 miles to prison camps where many died in the process |
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Blitzkrieg |
Lightning war, use of mobile weapons to cause opposing side to become disorganized |
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Concentration camps |
Place where a massive amount of people were imprisoned and forced to do labor |
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D-day |
June 6th 1944 Normandy France "Operation Overlord" planned 2 years in advance by Allied leaders in order to liberate France from Nazi control. Cross-channel invasion. Led my General Dwight D. Eisenhower who directed forces from North Africa and Italy. Began at 2 a.m. Para-troops dropped inland. Which followed with 5,000 american warships shelling the coast and at 6:30 a.m. 120,000 soldiers began storming five different beaches on the Normandy coast. 9,000 soldiers died. |
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Dictator |
Ruler with total control of country including people |
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Executive order 9066 |
Feb 19, 1942 112,000 Japanese-Americans evicted and segregated into camps. 600,000 more renounced citizenship which displayed American fear of Japanese Invasion. |
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Fascism |
Government controls economy, culture and all parts of people's lives |
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Genocide |
Elimination of an entire race |
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Hiroshima |
1st bomb drop site |
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Holocaust |
Nazis killed millions of people, mostly Jewish |
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Home Front |
Term given to U.S mainland |
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Internment Camp |
Where prisoners are held during wartime |
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Jews |
People persecuted by Hitler and the Nazis because of their religion |
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Kamikaze |
Japanese suicide pilots |
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Korematsu v. US |
1944 Supreme court case where Supreme court upheld the order for relocating JA. 1988 congress apologized and granted 20,00 to each survivor |
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Nagasaki |
2nd bomb drop site |
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Navajo Code Talkers |
Navajo tribe provided the US military a coded communication system using their own language |
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Nazi |
Shortened name for German political party known as the National socialist German workers party |
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Neutrality Acts |
1939 laws designed to prevent the US from entering future wars |
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Nuremberg trial |
Series of court cases held in Nuremberg Germany after WWII against Nazi war criminals for violating rules of war and crimes against humanity |
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Office of war information |
Organization that employed artists, writers, and advertisers to shape public opinion concerning World War II. A big propaganda machine. |
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Ration |
Limit of the amount of food or supplies a person could have |
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Rosie the Riveter |
Symbol of American women who went to work in factories during WWII |
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Scapegoat |
A person or a group of people who are blamed for an issue they often did not create. |
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Swastika |
Emblem of the Nazis flag |
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The United Nations |
International organization that was founded after WWII to promote peace and international cooperation |
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Tuskegee Airman |
Unit of African American pilots that was fought in WWII and got more awards than any other unit |
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V-E Day |
Victory in Europe |
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Veteran |
Someone who has served in the military and returned home |
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V-J Day |
Victory in Japan |
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War bonds |
Certificates sold by the US government to pay for the war |
