Can anyone define these better ?
Totalitarian- Government
Fascism – Dictatorial government
Nazism- Form of fascism “focuses on nationalism” Nationalist and Racist political system
The 3rd Reich – Hitler’s empire
Aryans-Master Race
1st Acts of Aggression
Japan –Manchuria
Germany – Rhineland
Italy-Ethiopia
Neutrality Acts-Help America stay out of future wars
Good Neighbor Policy
Anchluss- Alliance of Germany and Austria
Sudetenland
Munich, Germany gets
Appeasement Policy- Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor
Quarantine Speech- Roosevelt spoke out against isolationism in a speech delivered in Chicago
Germany and USSR sign the Nonaggression Pact-Promise not to fight
Blitzkrieg- Lightning war
1st Ally to Fall- France (loses to Germany)
Nazis occupy top France
World War One Nereo
Royal Air Force- Loyal British Air Force
Luftwaffe- German Air Force
Holocaust- Nazi killed 12 million people
Genocide – Extermination of Jews, deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population
Anti-Semitism – Hatred of Jews
Nuremberg Laws- Stripped Jews of their citizenship
Final Solution – Extermination
Star of David
Kristalnacht- “Night of Broken Glass”
St. Louis- Refugee ship of Jews coming to U.S. for help; sent back and died
Homosexuals, Catholics, Gypsies- All killed by Hitler
S.S.- Security Squadrons
Slum- Ghetto
Concentration Camps
Gas Chambers- Poison gas to kill Jews
Crematorium- Used to get rid of evidence
Auschwitz- Most famous concentration camp
Japan, Germany
France, G.B., Soviet- Allies U.S. Joins
Roosevelt elected 4 terms
Tripartite Pact a mutual defense treaty signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan aimed at keeping the United States out of the war
Axis Powers
Who broke the Nonaggression Pact? Germany
Cash and Carry- Provision that allowed warring nations to buy U.S. arms as long as they paid cash and transported them in their ships
Lend-lease- Allowed the U.S. to ship arms and other supplies, without immediate payment to nations fighting the Axis Powers
Peace time to War time economy
WAC’s – Women joined the military
Selective Service- “1st Peacetime draft”
Rosie the Riveter- Nickname given to women taking men’s jobs
Manhattan Project- Code name for the research and the development of the “atomic bomb”
Rationing- Restrictions placed on civilian buying of unlimited amounts of goods, to ensure adequate supplies for military
Chamberlain replaced by Churchill
Wolf Packs- Group of 15-20 U-boats
Convoys
Scorched Earth Policy- Burned own materials to have nothing
Battle of the Atlantic- Naval/Air
Battle of the Bulge- Lost (Tanks drove 60 miles into allied territory, creating a bulge in the lines)
Battle of Stalingrad- Named after the USSR, Scorched Earth
Battle of North Africa- “Operation Torch,” Allies win
Mussolini surrenders in Italy
Minorities segregated
Tuskegee Airmen-Pilots of all black 99th Pursuit Squadron
Purple Heart Battalion- 100th saw brutal combat
Buffaloes – Infantry divisions
Nisei- Japanese Americans
D-Day- Land-sea-air operation in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, that broke German lines- Invasion of Normandy- Operation Overboard
Pat- Leader in France
Liberation of Death Camps
Germany surrenders
Roosevelt dies before V.E. Day
President Truman- Authorizes the drop of the atomic bomb
Hitler “Du Fuhrer” committed suicide- wife kills herself
“I shall return”- Macarthur’s promise to make Philippines come back
Battle of the Philippines-Allies
Battle of the Midway- Allies
Coral Sea- Allies win
Iland hoping-Leap Frog
Suicide Bombers- kamikaze
Hirojima- American flag raised
Okinawa
Vichy-Puppet Government
Africa Corps
Anzio- Italian, bloody battle
Internment-
