WW2 Unit

Adolf Hitler

Leader of Nazi Germany - initiated the Holocaust

Charles de Gaulle

french General - led government and organized “Free french” troops

Hideki Tojo

Prime Minister

Raoul Wallenburg

Provided Jews with false Swedish passports and helped them escape to shelter in safe houses

Benito Mussolini

Ally of Hitler - Fascist leader of Italy

Albert Einstein

Worked with Leo Szilard

Alan Turing

Father of Computer A science & broke German Enigma codes

Isoroku Yamamoto

Top naval admiral

Nicholas Winton

Saved Jewish children during the Holocaust- want child support/families/orphanages for them

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Operation Torch was led by him

Leo Szilard

One of the very few scientists who knew Hitler’s plan

Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of the UK told people not to trust Hitler

Erwin Rommel

“Desert Fox” led German tank force

Hirohito

Japanese emperor

Irena Sendler

Nurse that saved Jewish children by smuggling them

Bernard Montgomery

Pushed Rommel’s Afrika Korps out of Egypt in the Battle of El Alamein

Robert Oppenheimer

Director scientist of the Manhattan Project

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President of the US at the time

George Zhukov

General that kept Germans out of Moskow

Douglas MacArthur

US General - commander of allied forces in the Pacific : “I shall return” and did to the Philippines

Oskar Schindler

Helped Jews away from being sent to camps by “hiring” them to work in his factory and he treated them very well.

Harry Truman

Became president after FDR died - said for the first atomic bomb to be dropped on Japanese cities

Allies

-Great Britain

-France

-USSR

-USA

-China

Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

secret agreement where Germany would be able to invade Poland without facing a two-front war

Vichy France

“puppet state”

Bushido Code

principals for samurai

Wannsee Conference

Where Nazi officials met to come up with a more efficient extermination of the Jews

Auschwitz

Largest/deadliest concentration camp during the Holocaust

“Righteous Among the Nations”

Those who helped Jews in risk of their own lives for the greater good.

V-E Day

Victory over Germany

Little Boy & Fat Man

Nuclear Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Atomic Age

Age of the nuclear bombing

Axis Powers Pact

military and economic alliance

the “Blitz”

London bombed nightly

Atlantic Charter

Plan to win war & make peace at end

Bataan Death March

forced march of American and Filipino prisoners

Einsatzgruppen

SS killing squads that rounded and executed Jews

Zyklon B

Gas used for killing during the Holocaust

Kamikazes

Japanese suicide pilots

Hiroshima

First Japanese city that was bombed

Yalta Conference

Split Germany & Berlin into 4 occupation zones

phony war / sitzkrieg

where fronts sat and waited

Luftwaffe

German air force

Pearl Harbor

The secret attack by Japan on the US

Doolittle Raids

Revenge for Pearl Harbor- psychological victory

Ghetto

Where Jews lived until they were sent to concentration camps

Nuremberg Trials

punished top-ranking Nazis - charged with crimes against humanity

V-2 Rockets

rockets launched by Germany towards allied targets

Manhattan Project

Creation of the 1st nuclear bomb

Nagasaki

2nd city bombed by the Fat Man

“Big Three”

Churchill, FDR, and Stalin

Maginot Line

where the French mobilized and waited

Scorched-earth strategy

Burn everything while retreating

“arsenal of democracy”

What FDR called the US

island-hop

Allies pushed towards Japan

Final solution

Plan of the extermination of the Jews

Rape of Berlin

Soviet general Zhukov& Red Army 1st to reach Berlin AKA Rape of Berlin

Trinity test

Test of the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico

V-J Day

Victory over Japan

WW1 years

1914-1918

Hiroshima (m/d/y)

August 6,1945

Members of the Axis Powers

Germany

Italy

Japan

Causes of WW2

Germany invaded Poland

Japanese aggression in China

USA entered after the attack on Pearl Harbor

What did WW2 look like

Genocide, mass loss/killing of humans, destruction globally -nuclear bombs

What were the effects of WW2 on the world

The Holocaust (mass loss of humans) , global destruction, triggered Cold War

Holocaust: what two countries lost the most Jews

Poland & USSR

Holocaust: Total # of Jews killed

6 million

Holocaust: Who else was killed

Political prisoners

Pows (especially soviets)

Gypsies/Roma

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Homosexuals

Mentally ill & disabled

Holocaust: How many non-Jews were killed

3-5 million

Total # of people dead from WW2

50-60 million +

What 2 countries had the most # of people dead from WW2

Soviet Union & China

What new technologies/inventions were developed during WW2?

Nuclear bombs, Jet engines

Dunkirk

Where was the french beach where 300,000 + Allied soldiers were rescued & ferried

1939-1945

When was the years of WW2

When was Hiroshima (m/d/y)

August 6,1945

stalingrad

brutal military campaign on eastern front of ww2

midway

Turning point of world war 2

d-day

allied assault in Normandy invasion on beaches

lend-lease act

the providing of aid to allies during the war