WWII totalitarianism government control over every aspect of public and private life fascism a political movement that stressed extreme nationalism and autocratic rule appeasement policy of granting concessions in order to keep the peace blitzkrieg lightning war internment temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group island-hopping strategy of capturing some Japanese-held islands and going around others kamikaze Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed their planes into American ships Manhattan Project secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb United Nations international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation communism a form of government that abolishes private ownership and creates a classless society D-Day allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944 amphibious able to function both on land and in water aircraft carrier ships that transport aircraft and accommodate the take-off and landing of airplanes Nuremberg Trials court hearings of the Nazi leaders and soldiers for 'war crimes' fission splitting of vocab

totalitarianism

government control over every aspect of public and private life

fascism

a political movement that stressed extreme nationalism and autocratic rule

appeasement

policy of granting concessions in order to keep the peace

blitzkrieg

lightning war

internment

temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group

island-hopping

strategy of capturing some Japanese-held islands and going around others

kamikaze

Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed their planes into American ships

Manhattan Project

secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb

United Nations

international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation

communism

a form of government that abolishes private ownership and creates a classless society

D-Day

allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944

amphibious

able to function both on land and in water

aircraft carrier

ships that transport aircraft and accommodate the take-off and landing of airplanes

Nuremberg Trials

court hearings of the Nazi leaders and soldiers for 'war crimes'

fission

splitting of atoms