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38 Cards in this Set

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alliance of Great Britain, the US, the Soviet Union and other nations
Allied Powers
discrimination towards Jews
Anti-Semitism
WWII alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan
Axis Powers
brutal march of US and Filipino prisoners by Japanese soldiers
Bataan Death March
1942 naval battle between US and Japan
Battle of Midway
battle between Germany and Soviets
Battle of Stalingrad
rapid and mechanized battle tactic
Blitzkrieg
Allied invasion of France in 1944
D-Day
required military service
Draft
Germany’s decision to kill Jews
Final Solution
organized killing of an entire people
Genocide
Japanese cities destroyed by the US with atomic weapons
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Nazi Germany’s systematic attempt to murder all European Jews
Holocaust
night of violence in Germany where Jewish property was vandalized
Kristallnacht
secret development of atom bomb by US
Manhattan Project
judgment of Nazis charged with war crimes
Nuremberg Trials
Japanese attack of US naval forces in Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
information intended to sway public opinion
Propaganda
brutality of Japanese soldiers against Chinese
Rape of Nanking
systematic government control of distribution of goods
Rationing
intense fear of communism and radicals
Red scare
African American fighter pilots of WWII
Tuskeegee Airmen
German submarines
U-boats
US government borrowing money from citizens for war effort
War bonds
An international organization composed of most of the countries of the world. It was founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and economic development.
United Nations
It dictates how prisoners of war, civilians and anyone else is supposed to be treated under the convention
Geneva Convention
A conference held in Yalta where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe
Yalta
They were laws during WWII against the Jews. It said that if all grandparents were German then you were of the "good" race, also known as the Aryan. If you had 3 or 4 Jewish grandparents you were of the "bad" race and you could be persecuted. If you just had 2 you were a mixbreed or a mischling and you weren't treated as well as a fullbreed German.
Nuremberg Laws
A Japanese pilot trained in World War II to make a suicidal crash attack, especially upon a ship
Kamazake
It was a method used by the American Forces to occupy one Island at a time towards japan, which was the eventual goal. it was like using these islands a stepping stones to the ultimate target.
Island Hopping
The first women other than nurses to serve within the ranks of the United States Army
Women’s Army Corps
A system organized by the US in 1941 by which equipment and services were provided for countries fighting Germany
Lend Lease Act
Giving in to enemies in hopes of maintaining peace (Made Hitler more confident → invaded Poland in 1939)
Appeasement
A treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
Hitler defied Versailles by building up military
Lebensraum “Living space: → slowly reclaimed “lost territory”
Treaty of Versailles
A form of gov’t in which a single party controls every aspect of the lives of its people
Totalitarianism
From the Axis Powers side, and Prime Minister of Italy. He attacked Ethiopia and joined alliance with Hitler later on. Declared war on France and Britain, and was defeated by Greece.
Benito Mussolini
He was the British Prime Minister, an officer in WWI, and He helped the British Hold out against Adolf Hitler and WWII. He inspired the British with radio and his speeches during the war.
Winston Churchill
In a non-aggressive agreement with the Nazis, then they violated the agreement and launched a massive attack on Moscow and Stalingrad, in very important territorial Spots. Germans gave up Berlin and ended the war.
Josef Stalin