WWII vocab

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Fascism

Fascism

Places the importance of the nation above the value of the individual.

Blitzkrieg

a fast type of warfare, tanks, trucks, planes, lightning war

Appeasement

giving someone what they want so that they stop causing trouble, to please them

Atlantic Charter

Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and need,freedom from fear

GI

nickname for an american soldier

Carpet Bombing

dropping a large number of bombs over a large area

Yalta Conference

meeting of FDR, Churchhill and Stalin to shape post-war Europe and the peace

Kamikaze

Suicidal planes(big damage explosives)

Manhattan Project

government project to make the atomic bomb

Holocaust

Nazi germany's systematic  murder of european jews

Anti-Semitism

prejudice against Jews, hatred of Jews

Kristallnacht

Jewish stores houses and synagogues were looted and destroyed

Death Camp

Camps only for mass murder

Concentration Camp

places where prisoners of war and political prisoner are confined

Wannsee Conference

A Nazi leader called Final solution to the jewish question,Establishing a special concentration camps in rural areas and in germany

Wolfpacks

groups of germans subs

Scorched Earth

burn or destroy anything the enemy could use as the soviets retreated

Lebensraum

living space for the population

Einsatzgruppen

Mobile killing units (Death squads of the Nazi’s used in Poland and Russia)

Luftwaffe

German air force