World War II

Axis Powers

• Germany

• Japan

• Italy

Allied Powers

• United Kingdom

• United States

• Soviet Union

Appeasement

• Making concessions to an aggressive foreign power in order to avoid War

• Most commonly associated with the British government towards Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

Holocaust

The genocide of European Jews during WWII in which Nazi Germany murdered about 6 million Jews through the use of mass shootings and concentration/externment camps

Fall of France

The German invasion of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France that resulted in these countries falling and being occupied by Axis troops

Lebensraum

German concept of expansionism and the motivation of Nazi Germany to initiate WWII

Blitzkrieg

• “lightning war”

• Describes a combined arms surprise attack

Lend-Lease Act

The United States supplied Allied nations with food, oil, and material between 1941-1945

Japan’s Defensive Perimeter

Japan’s plan to protect its empire and its natural and industrial resources

Japanese internment camps

The United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans

D-Day

The landing operations and associated airborne operations on June 6, 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy that resulted in the largest seaborne invasion in history

Battle of the Bulge

The last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front from December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945

U.S. domestic war effort