social studies; lesson 21-22

Different fighting strategies in WWI and WWII

WWl was slow with trench warfare. WWll was fast with lightning warfare strategies

Indemnity

payment for damages

Operation Barbarossa

hitler launched a massive invasion of the soviet union

Operation Overlord

enormous amount of secret planning for this combined air and amphibious operation

Hierarchy

organization where people ranked 1 above the other by authority 

Partisans

member of an armed group formed to fight secretly against an occupying force

Embargo

* government band on trade goods

Beer Hall Putsch

* hitlers first attempt to take over germany 

Good Neighbor Policy

* roosevelt withdrew marines from caribbean-based nations

Lend Lease Act

* program that allowed the US to send war material to allies

Manhattan Project

US began building an atomic bomb

Neutrality Acts

* kept the US from selling war material to warring nations 

Non-Aggression Pact

* agreement between Soviet Union and Germany to NOT attack each other during WW2

Tuskegee Airmen

* an all african-american unit of fighter pilots, the only unit during WWll never to lose a single bomber in all their missions

Hideki Tojo

*  became head of the Japanese government 

Neville Chamberlain

*  Prime Minister of Britain who stated we have “peace in our time”

Winston Churchill

* Prime Minister of Britain who asked for the U.S. for any war material 

Albert Einstein-

* warned FDR about the Nazis making an atomic bomb

adolph hitler

*  dictatorial leader of Nazi Germany (Fuhrer)

mussolini

* dictatorial leader of Fascist Italy

Franklin Roosevelt

president of us

Joseph Stalin

dictatorial leader of soviet union

harry truman

* assumed the Presidency after ROosevelt’s death

allies powers

* - US, Britain, France, Russia, China

axis powers

*  -Germany, Italy, Japan and later Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria 

the london blitz

*  Hitler destroying the British capital of London in a night-time bombing campaign  

sequence of battles in europe

* 1. Battle of Britain
* 2. Battle of Kursk
* 3. D-Day
* 4. Battle of Bulge

Date of D-Day-

june 6, 1944

What did Hitler violate in the Treaty of Versailles

* 1. Refused to pay war reparations 2. Built up an air force 3. Constructed submarines

Differences between the Nazis and Italian Fascists

Nazis acted on racial superiority of the germanic people, Fascists did not possess racial hatred toward any one group

Reasons why Hitler attacked the Soviet Union-

* 1. Hitler had a basic distrust of Stalin and he hated communism 2. He was casting a greedy eye towards the rich oil fields in the Caucasus Mountains 3. He considered the Slavs (Russians) inferior to his Germans 4. His armies and air force had conquered Northern, Westerm, and Southern Europe (all except eastern) 

What helped British during  the Battle of Britain

radar

Why Japan became militaristic

to strengthen japans economic and industrial foundations