WWII vocab

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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

J**ewish 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