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Blitzkrieg
a surprise attack that uses a lot of force to get fast victories .
Fascism
stands for a dictator. Extreme Nationalism, militarism, and supremacy. Authoritarian government with a dictator.
Lateran Accords
a treaty separating church and state in Italy
Spanish Civil War
A civil war in which multiple countries in Europe helped aid different sides of the war. The allies (Britain and France etc.) helped one side, but Russia and Germany helped the other side of the civil war. It was the same countries on different sides as in WW2.
Guernica
A town that was bombed during the Spanish Civil War.
Nazi Party
A German Political party that ruled Germany from 1933 - 1945;Treaty of VersaillesTreaty of Versailles Hitler led that party.
Atlantic Charter
Joint declaration between Winston Churchill (P.M of Great Britain) and Franklin D. Roosevelt (President of the U.S). It provided a broad statement of the U.S and Britain war aims.
Nuremberg Laws
Laws that restricted Jews rights in German.
Maginot Line
Array of defense systems that France built during WW2 with Germany to avoid any invasions.
Treaty of Versailles
A treaty that officially ended WW1. It later caused WW2 because Germany had been under the most stress from the treaty.
Kristallnacht
When Jewish owned stores and Synagogues were set on fire and destroyed.
Weimar Republic
Name given to the German government between the end of the Imperial time and the beginning of Nazi Germany.
Luftwaffe
German Air Force/ Air defense. Component of the German armed forces.
Lebensraum
Living space
Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact
NoNon-aggressionact signed by the Nazis and the Soviets shortly before WW2. They agreed to take NO military action against each other for the next 10 years.
Manhattan Project
A project that is one of the most transformative events of the 20th century. It ushered in the nuclear age with the development of the world's first atomic bombs. The building of atomic weapons began in 1942 in three secret communities across the nation.
Anschluss
Annexing of Austria
Final Solution
When Hitler committed genocide and killed jews as the final solution to get rid of them from Germany
The Holocaust
It was a genocide of European Jews during WWII.
Sudetenland
The northern part of Czechoslovakia. The area was desired by Germany not only for its territory but also because a majority of its population was 'ethnically' German. In the summer of 1938, Hitler demanded the annexation of the Sudetenland into Germany.
Island Hopping
Strategy used by allies in Japan where the Allies would skip islands and attack the one after it in order to maximize their resources as well as cutting of chains of supplies from Japan.
General Winter
An aspect of the climate of Russia that has contributed to military failures of several invasions of Russia.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was an inspirational statesman, writer, orator, and leader who led Britain to victory in the Second World War.
Adolf Hitler
He was the leader of the Nazi Party who rose to become the dictator of Germany.
Benito Mussolini
Leader of Fascist Italy
Joseph Stalin
Leader of the Soviet Union
Erwin Rommell
He was a German field marshal during World War II. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany.
Charles de Gaulle
A French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the United States
Harry S. Truman
He, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two were Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japanese surrender quickly followed. In June 1945; He witnessed the signing of the charter of the United Nations, hopefully, established to preserve peace.
Invasion of Poland
The incident caused the start of WW2. Germany invaded Poland which caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany (the official start of WW2).
Operation Barbarossa
This was the name for the secret invasion of the Soviet Union by their ally, Germany.
Operation Sea Lion
Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War.
Battle of Stalingrad
A major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.
Yalta Conference
A conference that was held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
Tehran Conference
A conference that was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. It was held at the Soviet Union's embassy at Tehran in Iran
Potsdam Conference
A conference was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Nuremberg Trials
Trials after WW2 held by the United Nations in which country leaders were on trial for committing crimes/ war crimes.
Battle of Britain
Battle between Germany and Britain
Battle of Leningrad
A prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of Leningrad on the Eastern Front of World War II. Germany's Army Group North advanced from the south, while the German-allied Finnish army invaded from the north and completed the ring around the city
Vichy
It was the French state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. Officially independent, but with half of its territory occupied under the harsh terms of the armistice with Nazi Germany, it adopted a policy of collaboration.
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.
Pearl Harbor
Attack by Japanese forces on us, in return Atomic bomb, go boom on Japan.
Dunkirk
A battle fought around the French port of Dunkirk during the Second World War, between the Allies and Nazi Germany.
Munich Conference
A conference held in Munich on September 28--29, 1938, during which the leaders of Great Britain, France, and Italy agreed to allow Germany to annex certain areas of Czechoslovakia. The Munich Conference came as a result of a long series of negotiations.
Battle of Midway
A major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place from 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Coral Sea
A battle from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces of the United States and Australia
Hiroshima
A place where Atomic bomb go boom on japan again
How did Hilter violate the Treaty of Versailles?
Initially By forming an Air Force and increasing Germany's Military, then he invaded the Balkans as well as Poland.
To whom did the Nazis most appeal to?
The Soviet union
Why did the US use the atomic bomb on Japan?
The goal was to destroy Japan's ability to make war
What was the role of women in WW2?
They helped in the factories and as nurses. In factories they helped create more weapons and devices for soldiers, and nurses helped injured soldiers.
Why did Japan attack the US?
Japan intended the attack as a preventive action. Its aim was to prevent the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and those of the United States.
What were the effects of Hitlers racial Ideology?
Hitler's racial ideology led to the systematic persecution and genocide of millions of individuals deemed racially inferior, including Jews, Roma, disabled people, homosexuals, and others during the Holocaust.
How did Mussolini, Hitler, and the Japanese militarists gain control of their respective countries
Mussolini, Hitler, and the Japanese militarists gained control of their respective countries by exploiting political instability, using propaganda and violence to suppress dissent, and securing the support of elites or military factions.
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