Topics 8.8 & 8.9 WWII and The Holocaust

Axis Powers

Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.

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Allies (WWII)

Alliance of France, Britain, US, USSR during World War II

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Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII

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Franklin Roosevelt

President of the US during Great Depression and World War II

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blitzkrieg

"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939

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Operation Barbarossa

Codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.

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Pearl Harbor

United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941, bringing the United States into World War II.

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Yalta Conference

1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war settlements

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Jewish Question

The issue, as framed by the Nazis, on how to end Jewish influence in Germany.

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Nuremberg Laws

Placed severe restrictions of Jews, prohibited from marrying non- Jews, attending schools or universities, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine or publishing books.

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Kristallnacht

(Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and businesses and terrorized Jews.

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concentration camp

a camp where prisoners of war, political prisoners, or members of minority groups are confined, typically under harsh conditions

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ghetto

separate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live.

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Holocaust

A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.

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Final Solution

Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

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