US History B WWII

The belief that the people of a specific country are the superior people of the world.

Fascism

Austrian, was a soldier in WWI, believes things that aren't true (delusional), is denied entry into an Art School and blames the Jewish people, and a good speaker.

Adolf Hitler

Prejudice against and hatred of Jewish people.

Anti-Semitism

A violent political party who said they could solve Germany's economic diaster.

The National Socialist German Workers Party

Hilter wrote this book while he was in prison after the failed mission to take over Munich, Bavaria.

"Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in the is world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live."

~Adolf Hitler (this was a quote in his book)

Mein Kampf (My Struggle)

Started the Facist Political Party in Italy of 1919, had the Black Shirts, appointed Prime Minister of Italy (by scaring Italy's king), wanted to make Italy like the Roman Empire, Hitler's idol, also a good speaker.

Benito Mussolini

the name that the people called Mussolini

Il Duche (The boss/leader)

Criminal, became the Soviet Union Dicator in 1926, industrialized his country by making a lot of steel over 5 years, wasn't kind to the people that didn't follow him, had concentration camps with slaves in them, and 8-10 million people died due to his reign.

Joseph Stalin

September 1, 1939

WWII Starts

December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor Attack

June 6, 1944

D-day

May 8, 1945

Victory in Europe Day (VE-Day)

August 15, 1945

Victory over Japan Day (VJ-Day)

August 14 or 15, 1945

WWII ended

the man that replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister of Great Britain, who refused to let Great Britain surrender.

Winston Churchill

The German Airforce

The Luftwaffe

The dictator of Japan

Tojo

The name the Germans called Hitler

Der Fuhrer

Giving into someone's demands in the hope that it will satisfy them.

Appeasement

The military style of Hitler and the Nazis; using fast tanks and the luftwaffe, and smashing through the enemy line and get behind/flank them.

Blitzkreig (Lightning war)

In the end of May-early June of 1940 more than 850 ships sailed across the English Channel and evacuated and saved 338,000 allied troops from being killed or captured by the Nazis.

The Miracle at Dunkirk

The treaty that ended The Great War/WWI

The Versailles Treaty

the German submarines that were sinking the Allies ships

U-Boats

the attack code for the Japanese planes that meant a total suprise had been achieved and the full attack should begin.

Tora, Tora, Tora

Germany, Italy, and Japan (later Italy leaves)

the Axis Powers

The US, China, The UK, and The Soviet Union (later Italy joins)

the Allies

The location of Pearl Harbor

Ford Island, in Oahu, Hawaii

When the Japanese came to suprise attack For Island and sunk and damaged many battleships, and killed and injured many people.

Pearl Harbor

Elected President of the United States in 1932, had the idea for the "new deal", he gave the Day of Infamy Speech.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The speech given by FDR about the Pearl Habor Attack

The "Day of Infamy"

The place where the 2nd atomic bomb was dropped

Nagasaki, Japan

The place where the 1st atomic bomb was dropped

Hiroshima, Japan

The project for the US to try to develop an atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

The Manhattan Project

A humongous bomb that was created by intellegent scientists in the US to be dropped on places in Japan to try and get them to surrender.

Atomic Bomb

The vice president of FDR, who became president when he died, he gave the order to drop the atomic bomb on Japan

Harry S. Truman

When the Allies' B-29 Superfortress bombers attacked an island that had the Japanese's cast network of concrete bunkers and tunnels.

Battle of Iwo Jima

the names of the Japanese aircraft carriers that were involved in the battle of Midway. 3 of them were sunk/set ablaze

Kaga, Akagi, Hiryu, and Soryu

Japanese aircraft carriers that sunk at Midway

Akagi, Kaga, and Soryu

The trials that put Nazi officals on trial for war crimes.

Nuremburg Trials

The Emperor of Japan during WWII

Hirohito

On Sept. 1st, 1939 Germany invaded this place.

Poland

This plane dropped more bombs than any other US aircraft in WWII

B-17

This plane was a long-range escort fighter and was also a ground attack fighter-bomber

P-51

This plane was an American heavy bomber

B-24

This plane was an American heavy bomber that dropped the atomic bomb "the fat man" on Nagasaki

B-29

The American battleship that was sunk during the Pearl Harbor Attack

USS Arizona

The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

Enola Gay

This is the most famous British combat aircraft

British Spitfire

Germany wanted to become a greater nation by annexing new countries like Austria.

Anschluss

The Germans believed that they were this mythical race, that implied that they were superior to everyone else in the world.

Aryan Master Race

The Nazi Army of 100,000 men that were completely devoted to Hilter

Army of the Third Reich

When the Luftwaffe begain attacking British shipping in the English Channel, and in August when they launched an all-out air battle to destoy the Royal Air Force.

The Battle of Britain-The Battle of the Blitz

The state of not supporting or helping either side in a conflict

Neutrality

3 countries that remained neutral in WWII

Iceland, Sweden, Switzerland

Created by Roosevelt this allowed the US to lend or lease arms to any country considered "vital to the defense of the United States."

The Lend-Lease Act

This required all men between 21 and 30 to register for the draft to go to war.

Selective Service

Government Issue/General Issue. The term used to refernce the mass production of equipment and supplies made for troops.

G.I.

this what groups of the German submarines that worked together to sink Allies' convoys and other ships were called.

Wolfpack

In this Theater General Dwight D. Eisenhower is the commanding general and the Nazi general of this theater is Ewrin Rommel. Where the battle for North Africa took place.

The North African Theater

This theater is home to battles and attacks like Pearl Harbor the Battle of Midway. The admiral of this Theater's fleet was Chester Nimitz. Also this is the theater where VJ-Day occured.

The Pacific Theater

This theater was predominately made up of the Allies trying to hunt down the German U-boats. This theater is also where D-Day took place.

The Alantic Theater

This theater is where the invasion of Poland took place to start WWII occured, and VE-Day.

The European Theater

Hitler transforms the German economy by hiring thousands of German people to build tanks, guns, ammunition, uniforms, planes, etc. for the war. This violated the versailles treaty.

Germany's reararmament

This guy was the brilliant Nazi general military commander of the North African Theater.

Erwin Rommel

This man wrote a letter to FDR to warn him of German nuclear development, this initiated the Manhattan Project. He was also a very very intellegent Scientist.

Albert Einstein

These were the special units of Japanese attack units that commited suicide by purposely crashing their planes into Allied ships to try and damage them.

Kamikazes

This battle occured in the Philippines in October of 1944 where the US sent more than 700 ships that help more than 160,000 troops and sailed to land on a gulf in the Philippines. The Japanese sent for aircraft carriers toward the Philippines and secretly sent more from a different direction. And they tricked and ambushed the Americans who thought they were only coming from the North. This was the biggest Naval battle in history.

The Battle of Leyte Gulf

This Nazi Work/Concentration Camp is where more than 1 million Jews were killed and it is located in Poland.

Auschwitz

This was another famous Nazi work/Concentration Camp near Munich, and it was the first Nazi Concentration Camp.

Dachau

This man commanded the Pearl Harbor Naval Fleet leading up to and during the Pearl harbor Attack, he was blamed for the lack of preparedness and relevied of his duties.

Admiral Kimmel

This man is known for leading the first wave of air attacks on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th, 1941

Commander Fuchida

This Admiral was the head of the US Navy Pacific Fleet at the battle of Midway.

Admiral Chester Nimitz

The Japanese signed the surrender to the US on this Battleship on Sept 2nd, 1945.

USS Missouri

This battle was over land by a Japanese base. The American troops landed on the beach and the Japanese took postitions in the island's rugged mountains, the Americans fought their way up steep slopes against constant machine gun and artillerly fire. Many Americans died but this island was captured.

The Battle of Okinawa

This was a strategic military campaign used by the Allied forces in the Pacific World War II, focusing on capturing key, strategic islands while bypassing heavily fortified, less important ones.

Island Hopping

In this battle the USS Enterprise is accompained by the carriers of Yorktown and Hornet. Japan had for carriers in the Pacific near a group of islands; Kaga, Akagi, Soryu, Hiryu. All of these carriers took part in the Pearl Harbor attack. Japan wanted to sink our carriers and make the islands their base. This battle began on June 4th, 1942. The US deystroyed 3 out of the 4 Japanese aircraft carriers.

The battle of Midway

This was the most important aircraft carrier for the US in WWII. It was involved in the battle of Midway.

The USS Enterprise

This man was the commanding general in the North African theater. And led Operation Overlord/D-Day

Dwight D. Eisenhower

This was a place in Poland where over 400,000 Jews were imprisoned, it was established in 1940 of November. It was a site of immense suffering, with starvation and disease leading to mass deaths.

The Warsaw Ghetto

This Battleship in Battleship row was also sunk at the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese.

USS Oklahoma

These certain places for Jews organized mass murder of Jews in gas chamber with Zyklon B gas pellets that are also used to kill rats.

Death Camps

These places were for captured Jews, they would be sent their to work as slaves and later most likely die of many causes or be killed by the Germans.

Concentration Camps

This was the evil mass murder committed by Hitler and the Nazis during WWII in Europe. 6 million Jews were killed

The Holocaust

This battle occured before dawn on December 16th, 1944, when the Allies were advancing to the German border Hitler decided to stage on last desperate offensive, he wanted to cut the Allies supplies, the Germans caught the Americans by suprise. And as the German troops raced west their lines bulged outward.

The battle of the bulge

General Eisenhower was the commander for this mission. This is were the Allied Powers crossed the English channel from the UK to land at the coast of Normandy. They landed at the beaches codenamed Utah, Omaha, Gold, Sword, and Juno. Under intense German fire more than 100,000 soldiers had to run across the beaches to the rocky cliffs and climb them to fight the Germans. Also 23,000 Allied Paratroopers landed on the cliffs of the beaches to fight the Germans from a different angle. Many Allied soldiers died that day, but it had succeed.

D-Day/operation Overlord

Hitler wanted to destroy the Soviet economy so in May 1942 Hitler ordered his army to capture strategic oil fields, factories, and farmlands in southern Russian Ukraine. There was a major railroad junction in the city of Stalingrad and if the German Army could capture Stalingrad they could cut off the Soviets from the resources they needed to stay in the war. The German troops entered Stalingrad in mid-September. Then on November 23rd Soviet reinforcements arrived and surrounded Stalingrad, trapping almost 250,000 German troops. The Germans surrendered and returned home after the war.

The Battle of Stalingrad

This man helped General Patton and Eisenhower on the invasion of Sicily.

General Bernard Montgomery

In November of 1938 a young Jewish refugee shot and killed a German Diplomat in Paris because he wanted Revenge for his father and the other Jews that had been deported from Germany to Poland. This infuriated Hitler and he ordered his minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels to stage attacks against the Jews that would seem like a spontaneous popular reaction to the news of the murder. This was the anti-Jewish violence that erupted throughout Germany and Austria that night.

Kristallnacht

This man was an American general who served as a top commander during WWII and the Korean War. He achieved the rank of General of the Army.

Douglas MacArthur

This man was a US Army commander in WWII renowned for leading armored forces in North Africa, Sicily and across Europe with his famed Third Army. He broke the German line in France and secured a crucial victory in the Battle of the Bulge.

George S. Patton

Hawaiian Island, has state capital of Honolulu, Pearl Harbor, most famous beach: Waikiki

Oahu