WW2

Ms. renneker

Appeasement

policy of giving in to an aggressor's demands in order to keep the peace

Pacifism

opposition to all war

neutrality acts

series of acts passed by the US congress that aimed to keep the US from becoming involved in WWII

axis powers

the countries of Germany, Italy, and Japan that fought the Allies in the WWII

Nazi/soviet pact

agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in which two nations promised not to fight each other and to divide up land in Eastern Europe

Blizkrieg

lightning war

Luftwaffe

German air force

Dunkirk

port in France from which Allied troops were evacuated when their retreat by land was cutoff by German advance

Lend/lease act

act passed by US congress that allowed the president to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense was considered vital to the US

Atlantic charter

agreement in which FDR and Churchill set goals for the defeat of Nazi Germany and for the postwar world

concentration camp

detention center for civilians considered enemies of the state

Holocaust

the systemic genocide of about six million European Jews by the Nazis in WWII

Crematorium

place used to burn corpses

Auschwitz

group of three German concentration camps and extermination camps in Southern Poland built and operated during the Third Reich

Internment

confinement during wartime

rosie the riveter

popular name for women who worked in war industries during WWII

Stalingrad

city in Russia that was site of a fierce battle during WWII

d/day

June 6th 1944, day that the allied forces invaded France during WWII

yalta conference

meeting between Churchill, FDR, and Stalin, where the three leaders made agreements regarding the end of WWII

v

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"island hopping"

during WWII allied strategy of recapturing some Japanese

Kamikaze

Japanese pilot who undertook a suicide mission

Hiroshima

city in Japan where the first atomic bomb was dropped

Nagasaki

city in Japan where the second atomic bomb was dropped

nuremberg trials

series of war crimes trials held in Germany after WWII

united nations (UN)

international organization formed at the end of WWII

manhatten project

code name for the project to build the first atomic bomb during WWII

winston churchill

become the prime minister of the British Empire, proclaimed the threats the Nazis posed

franklin delano roosevelt

American president during the Great Depression and World War II

dwight d eisenhower

American general who commanded the Allied forces in western Europe

harry truman

American vice president during WWII and become president after FDR died + made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan