Germany's War Strategies and Impact in WWII

Blitzkrieg

"lightning war"

Nonaggression Pact

Agreement where the two countries promised they would not go to war with one another.

Germany's Occupation of France

Germany officially took over France on June 22, 1940.

Vichy

"Puppet Government of the Nazi Party"

Battle of Britain

Attacks by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force)

Nuremberg Laws (1935)

Jewish people lost citizenship.

Nazi Death Squads

SS "Security Squadron" - Schutzstaffel.

Kristallnacht

"Night of broken glass" (November 9-10, 1938).

Hitler's Goal

Create a "Master Race" - racial purity.

Lebensraum

Create more living space for the German people.

Ghettos

A city neighborhood in which a certain minority group is pressured or forced to live in tough, inhumane living conditions.

Concentration Camps

Prison camps operated by Nazi Germany in which Jews and other groups considered to be enemies of Adolf Hitler were starved while doing slave labor or were murdered.

Auschwitz

The largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust. Approximately 1.1 million people killed there.

Use of poison gas - "Gas Chambers" (Zyklon B).

Mass Extermination of People--What was used?

Lend Lease Act

Law that apportioned money for the United States to lend arms and other supplies to non-Axis countries.

Pearl Harbor

Japan surprised attacked the United States in Hawaii.

Internment Camps

Practice of forced relocation applied to Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast after Pearl Harbor.

Korematsu v. United States

Upheld by the United States Supreme Court, reinforced the constitutionality of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II

ghettos

Sections of towns and cities in which Jews were forced to live.

Jews, Gypsies, Freemasons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Homosexuals, Mentally disababled, physically disabled, Polish Catholics

What types of people were persecuted during Hitler's reign?

medical experiments

Inhumane tests conducted on camp prisoners.

Lend-Lease Act

The laws passed by the U.S. allowing us to give aid to our Allies in early WWII

Prime Minister Tojo

planned the attack on Pearl Harbor

2403

The number of Amricans killed at Pearl Harbor

December 8, 1941

When did the US declare war on Japan?

blitzkreig

"Lighting Wars" type of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939

Nonagreesion Pact

An agreement in which the Soviet Union and Germany promised not to attack one another

Joseph Stalin

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

Adolph Hitler

Leader of Nazi Germany

Charles DeGaulle

Leader of the French resistance--fled to Great Britain and set up a temporary French Government

Star of David

Jewish symbol that Jews were forced to wear on their clothing

Schutzstaffel

Hitler's secret police; his protection squad