WW2 Unit Test

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Allies

Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and China

Central Powers

German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria

Axis

Germany, Italy, Japan

Appeasement

A diplomatic strategy that involves making land concessions to an aggressive foreign power in order to avoid war

Armenian Genocide

A ton of Armenian were killed in the Ottoman empire from 1915 to 1916 led to its downfall

Armistice

Signed on June 22 1940 divided France up and gave some of it to Germany and some to France????

D-Day

Aka Operation Overloard was the invasion of normandy beaches in France on June 6th 1944

Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, etc.

Genocide

the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

Georgy Zhukov

Marshal of the Soviet Union, and most important Soviet military commander during World War II was apart of the defense of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the invasion of Berlin

Holocaust

Genocide of Jews

Douglas MacArthur

was a U.S. general who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in World War II and administered postwar Japan during the Allied occupation that followed

Iwo Jima

1945 battle between US and Japan

Kellogg Briand Pact

Pact of Paris signed in 1928 kind of useless

League of Nations

1920 to 1946 no one listened to them

Joseph Stalin

Leader of Communist Part in Russia

Manhattan Project

Led by the US with help from the UK and Canada to make the first nukes in 1942

Munich Agreement

By UK, France, Italy, and Germany in 1938 allowing Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia

Bento Mussolini

Italian dictator

Nazism

Political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany

Charles de Gaulle

French General during WW2

Nuremberg Trials

Conducted after WW2 to persecute Nazis from 1945 to 1946

Reinhard Heydrich

was a Nazi German official who was Heinrich Himmler’s chief lieutenant in the Schutzstaffel

Blackshirts

National Fascist Party of Italy

Schutzstaffel

was originally established as Adolf Hitler’s personal bodyguard unit. It would later become both the elite guard of the Nazi Reich and Hitler’s executive force prepared to carry out all security-related duties, without regard for legal restraint

Totalitarianism

a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

a concept promoted by the Empire of Japan, aiming to establish a self-sufficient economic and political bloc in Asia, led by Japan, and free from Western influence

United Nations

Founded in 1945

VE Day

Victory in Europe - May 8th 1945

VJ Day

Victory over Japan - August 15th 1945

Holodomor

Aka Ukrainian famine from 1932 to 1933 was part of the larger soviet famine

Chinese Civil War

1945 to 1949

Isoroku Yamamoto

was a Japanese naval officer who conceived of the surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Archduke of Austro Hungarian Empire killed in 1914

Bolsheviks

Soviet political party led by Stalin that took control of Russia in 1917

Mukden Incident

An explosion that destroyed a Japanese railway, Japan would later blame it on China and use it as an excuse to invade Manchuria in 1931

Anschluss

annexation of the Federal State of Austria into Nazi Germany on March 12 1938

Collectivization

Collectivisation was a significant policy created by Stalin in 1928. It aimed to combine individual farms into collective farms

Five Year Plan

created in 1928 to initiate rapid and large-scale industrialization across the USSR

Treblinka

Extermination

Lend-Lease Act

Allowed the US to lend or lease war supplies to a nation if it was vital to US defense passed in 1941

Battle of Guadalcanal

US v. Japan Pacific Theater 1942

Barbarossa 

1941

Rape of Nanjing

1937

Beer Hall

1928