WORLD WAR 2 Review

appeasement

giving into the aggressive demands to keep peace

genocide

deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group

concentration camp

detention center for civilians who are considered enemies of a state

reparations

payment for war damages

Adolf hitler

Leader of the Nazi Party in Germany before and during World War II. He was able to rise to power because he promised to provide jobs and rebuild German pride.

Benito Mussolini

Fascist Italian leader

Joseph stalin

Totalitarian Leader of Soviet Union who signed nonaggression Pact with Hitler

Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of Great Britain during and after World War II

Harry s Truman

American President who ordered atomic bomb on Japan

Italian Agression

1935- invaded Ethiopia in Africa

German Agression

-violated treaty of Versailles

1936- troops occupied Rhineland

1938- conquered Austria

1938- seized Sudenland

Non Aggression Pact

•Hitler& Stalin agreed not to fight eachother

•divide up parts of Eastern Europe

invasion of Poland

9/1/39- Germans invaded Poland

Britain+ France declared war

allied powers

Britain

France

Soviet Union

China

US (1941)

Axis Powers

Italy

Germany

Japan

Falling of France

1940 - Germans captured Paris and conquered France

causing Charles De Guille to exile

Pearl Harbor

because Americans were interfering with Japan's desire to expand in Asia and pacific, Japanese had surprise attack on America

DDay

June 6,44- allies chosen day to invade France. Germans were under pressure on all sides and retreated.

VE Day

Victory in Europe

Germany+ Italy surrender

Hitler found dead

Mussolini killed

Atomic bomb

1945 Japan refuse to surrender

Harry Truman dropped bomb

1) Hiroshima August 6,1945

2) Nagaski August 9,1945

Japan surrendered August10

United Nations

organization created in 1945 to help nations discuss problems and develop solutions.