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Non-Agression Pact of 1939

Deal between Germany and the Soviet Union.

Allowed for the invasion and division of Poland.

Shocked the allied powers.

Blitzkrieg

Lightning-fast warfare employed by Germany that allowed for them to quickly conquer Europe.

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* Technology-aided
* Supported the idea of Germany’s expansionism

Battle of Britain

* Aerial battle fought by Britain and Germany
* Proved GB’s resistance

German invasion of the Soviet Union

Operation Barbarossa

* Soviets used scorched-earth
* Germany army starved Russia’s citizens by bombing warehouses
* Germany loss

Pearl Harbor Attack

Japan’s attack of the US Navy Base

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Context:

* Japan wants to conquer SEA
* To stop Japan from advancing, the US stopped their oil supply to Japan
* Japan still continued with their imperialistic takings of land.


* Japan hoped that this attack would scare America away from joining the war.
* The US joins WWII because of this bombing

Battle of Midway

US vs Japan

US wins

Turning point in the pacific theater, set up US victory

Island Hopping

The United States got closer to Japan by conquering weak islands, then building from then on

Rape of Nanking

Brutal violence in the city of Nanjing in China

* Encouraged western sanctions against Japan
* Example of Japan’s relentless violence

Battle of El Alamein

* Egypt
* GB vs. Axis
* Stopped Axis from further advancing into Northern Africa

Battle of Stalingrad

* SU vs Ger for Stalingrad → industrial center
* Hitler/Germany refused to retreat, causing starvation and frostbite in German troops.

D-Day Invasion

Plan to attack German-held France

* Allied forces heavy casualties
* Germany had already dug machine guns, cannons, etc.

Battle of Leyte Gulf

* Japan vs. US
* Naval battle
* Japan risked and blundered
* Japan → crippled fleet

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

* Nuclear weaponry
* Helped aid to stop WWII
* Japan surrendered after

Total Warfare

When all of a countries resources goes to support a war effort

* Clothes
* Materials
* Factories helped

Double V Campaign

Stands for double victory campaign. African American bolstered campaign to stop:

* HITLER
* RACISM + SEGREGATION AT HOME.

Gender Roles (WWII)

* Women → factories
* Men → war

Rationing

Restrics:

* Food
* Goods/resources/materials

from the general public so that there is

* ***enough for the military.***

Genocide

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group

Japanese Internment

Japanese and Japanese Americans were placed in camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor

* upheld by Korematsu v. US
* Possibly racially motivated

Mass Migration

Registering and Moving Japanese Americans to internment camps

Nuremberg Laws

Placed severe restrictions of Jews. Prohibited from:

* Marrying non- Jews
* Attending schools or universities
* Holding government jobs
* Practicing law/medicine/publishing books.

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

* Mobs ransacked
* More than seven thousand Jewish shops and synagogues
* 91 died, 30,000 were sent to concentration camps.

Holocaust

A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of:

* Jews
* Non-conformists
* Homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.

Final Solution

Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people. (Lebensruam)