WORLD WAR II STUDY GUIDE

HISTORY 7

Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941

Axis Powers/leaders (dictators)

Germany-Hitler

Italy-Benito Mussolini

Japan-Hideki Tojo

Nazaism/Fascism-dictatorships

type of government based on totalitarian ideas and requires the people of the country to be highly loyal

D-Day

June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.

Invasion of Poland

Germany invaded, breaking their agreement, so Britain and France declared war, starting World War II

Antisemitism

hostility to or prejudice against Jews.

Internment Camps

Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President.

Concentration camps

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister throughout most of WWII. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West

The Manhattan Project

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

Nagasaki

Japanese city devastated during World War II when the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on Aug 8th, 1945.

Holcaust

the deliberate killing of 6 million jews solely because they were Jewish by the Naizis during World War ll

Joseph Stalin

Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communists after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush opposition

Major Allied Powers/leaders

1. Great Britain-Winston Churchill

2. Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin

3. United States-FDR

treatment of minorities during WWII

Unfortunately, despite all of their contributions, they still faced discrimination and were segregated in the military

Homefront during WWII

Women Workforce, War Industry, Rationing of Supplies

Causes of WWII 1939-1945

Great Depression

Treaty of Versailles (punishing Germany)

Appeasement

Failure of the League of Nations;

Emergence of Fascism (Hitler, Mussolini)

Japanese aggression in Asia