WWII Vocab (2nd set)

Last German offensive (attack) of WWII

Battle O’ the Bulge

February of ‘45, meeting of the Big 3 where they decided too…

• Divide Germany into East and West Germany

• Stalin gets Poland

• Russian MUST ATTACK Japan 3 months after Germany surrenders

Yalta Conference

May 8th 1945, the day Germany surrenders

**Dropped Bomb on Aug 6th, Soviet attack 8th

V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day)

Last meeting of the Big 3 where Truman decided to use Atomic Bomb

Potsdam Conference

Japanese pilots who flew their planes into American Targets

Kamikaze (“Divine Wind”)

Took over FDR, dropped the Atomic Bombs on Japan

Harry S. Truman

Codename of the project to build the Atomic Bomb (the pieces came from Manhattan)

Manhattan Project

Head scientist of the Manhattan Project

Robert Oppenheimer

First Japanese City destroyed by the Atomic Bomb

Hiroshima

Name of the 1st Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (expels mushroom cloud)

Little Boy

Name of the plane that dropped the first bomb

Enola Gay

Second city destroyed by the Atomic Bomb

Nagasaki

Name of the second bomb dropped on Japan (Nagasaki)

Fat Man

Intentional killing of a specific Radical, Religious, Ethnic, or National Group

Genocide

Refers to the murder of 12 million “Undesirables” by Nazi Germany

Holocaust

Anti-Jewish Laws in Germany that identifies Jews

Nuremberg Laws

Group targeted in the Holocaust including…

• Jews

• Homosexuals

• Disabled (mental/physical)

• “Gypsies”

• Political Radicals (Communists)

• Jehovah’s Witnesses

“Undesirables”

Nights of Broken Glass. Night of State Sponsor Terror by the Germans against the Jews

Kristallnacht (Nov 9th, 1938)

Parts of city’s where Jews were forced to live

Ghettos

First Concentration Camp built in Germany

Dachau

Largest and most famous of the Death Camps

Auschwitz