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WORLD WAR II
Honors World History
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World War II: key terms
economic or political penalties imposed by one country on another to try and force a change in policy.
Sanctions Giving in to aggressive demands to
avoid war Appeasement Opposition to all war Pacifism
Neutrality Acts
a series of acts passed by the United States Congress from 1935 to 1939 that aimed to keep the United States from becoming involved in World War II.
Passed during FDR’s Administration =>
Axis Powers
Group of countries led by Germany, Italy, and Japan that fought the Allies in World War II
Sudetenland
A region of western Czechoslovakia
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 in which the two nations promised NOT to fight each other and to divide up land in Eastern Europe
Blitzkrieg
A German word meaning “lightning war” A fast, forceful style of fighting used by
the Germans in World War II
Luftwaffe
German Air Force
Winston Churchill
1874 – 1965 British Prime Minister Opposed the policy of appeasement Let Great Britain through World War II One of “The Big Three”
Vichy
A city in central France where the Germans set up a puppet state governing unoccupied France and the French colonies
*Can you find Vichy? =>
General Erwin Rommel
1891 – 1944 German general during WW II Commanded the Afrika Korps Nicknamed “the Desert Fox” due to his
leadership
Concentration Camps
Detention sites created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in some cases, kill civilians.
Holocaust
the systematic genocide of about six million European Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
“Never again!”
Lend-Lease Act
act passed by the United States Congress in 1941 that allowed the president (FDR) to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense was considered vital to the United States.
Roosevelt Signs the Lend-Lease Act
Rosie the Riveter
popular name for women who worked in war industries during World War II.
Aircraft Carrier
ship that accommodates the taking off and landing of airplanes, and transport aircraft.
USS Enterprise CV 6
The most decorated ship of the Second World War
Dwight Eisenhower
1890 – 1969 U.S. General 24th President of the United States Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
during WW II Led the Allied invasions of North Africa
and of France (D-Day)
Stalingrad
Now Volgograd A city in southwestern Russia that was
the site of a fierce battle during WW II.
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 WW II battle between invading German
forces and Soviet defenders for control of Stalingrad, a city on the Volga River
Each side sustained hundreds of thousands of casualties
Germany’s defeat marked a turning point in the war
D-Day
code name for the day that Allied forces invaded France during World War II, June 6, 1944.
Yalta Conference
meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 where the three leaders made agreements regarding the end of WW II.
“Big Three”
The three key Allied leaders of WW II Winston Churchill of Great Britain Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the U.S. Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union
The
big3
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day May 8, 1945, the day the Allies won
World War II in Europe.
Bataan Death March
during WW II, the forced march of Filipino and American prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military.
Douglas MacArthur
(1880-1964) American general Commanded U.S. troops in the
Southwest Pacific during World War Administered Japan after the war ended.
(He later commanded UN forces at the beginning of the Korean War, until he was removed by President Truman.)
Island-hopping
during World War II, Allied strategy of recapturing some Japanese-held islands while bypassing others.
Manhattan Project Code name for the project to build the first atomic
bomb during World War II. On December 6, 1941 the United States allied with
Canada, and the United Kingdom to begin the Manhattan Project, which was to create the first atomic bomb. The project was headed by the Manhattan Corps of Engineers, while the scientific research was headed by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. There was a total of 175,000 people working on the Manhattan project but only a small group of people knew the secret ambition behind the project. The scientific research for the Manhattan Project took place in Los Alamos, New Mexico; and Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
World War II: Nearing the end!
After finishing the war in Europe, the United States turned its attention to Japan.
President Truman had to make an unprecedented decision!!!!
Mid-sized city in Japan where the first atomic bomb was dropped in August, 1945
Hiroshima
A coastal city in southern Japan on the island of Kyushu
City in Japan where the second atomic bomb was dropped in August 1945
Nagasaki
JAPAN SURRENDERS!
but unfinished
business remains….
NUREMBERG&
THE NUREMBERG TRIALS
a city in southern Germany where Hitler staged Nazi rallies in the 1930s, and where Nazi war crimes trials
were held after World War II.
World War II
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