WH2 UNiT 8
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- weimar republic
- name of german democratic government set up by Versailles treaty
- axis powers
- what germany, japan, and Italy were called during WW2
- royal air force
- the RAF
- internment
- forced relocation and detention of japanese Americans
- operation over lord
- name of the d day invasion aka battle of normady
- hiroshima
- 1st atomic bomb, dropped aug 6 1645
- chamberlain
- prime minister of great britain who used the appeasement policy
- dejure
- diplomatic term that means recognition by one country of the legal government of another
- Adolf Hitler
- fuhrer of germany
- V-E day
- may 8, 1945
- treaty of versailles
- treaty that ended WW1
- Rosie the Riviter
- Women who worked on aircraft and other war industries
- patain
- head of the Vichy French government
- Missouri
- The Japanese Formal surrender took place at this place.
- iwojima
- pacific battle in feb 1945, won strategic island at cost of 5000 marine deaths, famous for the flag raising on top of mountain
- totalitarian
- a dictatorship that has total control over a nation and suppresses individual freedom
- kristallnacht
- night of broken glass
- battle of bulge
- battle that turned tide in europe against germany when allied forced germany to be on the defensive and puched them back towards germany
- anschiuss
- The annexation of Austria by Germany
- midway
- aug 1942 battle in pacific when america took its first major offensive against japan
- theaters
- a reference to the 3 arenas where WW2 was fought in North Africa, Europe, and pacific
- Mussolini
- Called Black Shirts
- Hiro Hito
- Imperial Emperor of Japan
- vichy
- name of the french gov that was the puppet gov for germany, located in southern france
- D-Day
- june 6, 1944
- nagasaki
- 2nd atomic bomb, dropped aug 9 1945
- isolationism
- no entangling alliances
- dec 8, 1941
- date us decalred war against japan
- V-J Day
- aug 14, 1945
- washington naval conference
- conference in the 1920's held in washington D.C.; limited naval tonnage that could be built; left Japan alone in Pacific
- coup d'etat
- word means a sudden attempt to overthrow government
- pacifists
- those who would not participate in war by figjhting
- reciprical
- countries agreed to trade with each other
- lend-lease
- america got around its official neutrality policy by "lending" ships to great britain in return for U.S. leasing naval bases in the Atlantic
- dictator
- rule by one who assumes the power of force
- battle of coral sea
- pacific battle was the first battles crucial to stopping the japanese advance and kept japan from attacking austria
- Doolittle
- famous US army air corps colonel who led bombing missions on tokyo
- manchuria
- japan occupied this in 1931
- Enola Gay
- name of aircraft taht carried the atomic bomb
- D-Day
- battle/invasion of normandy, france
- Pearl harbor attacked
- Dec 7, 1941
- macarthur
- 5 star commanding general of the pacific army and general of the military district set up in japan after VJ day
- neutral
- nations officially not at war
- nazism
- german form of fascism
- island hoping
- method of warfare used by the U.S. navy of attacking and seizing only strategic islands held by the Japanese
- kamikaze
- Japanese soldiers wwho committed suicide for their military mission
- japanese surrendered in Missouri
- Sept 1, 1945
- fascism
- advocated nationalism and militarism under dictatoriship
- invasion of Itaky through sicily
- invasion of europe from north africa
- arms race
- race between the super powers for superiority of arms
- luftwaffe
- name of the german air force
- battle of britain
- this battle was ther german air attack of britain in summer of 1940 after hitler had taken poland, norway, denmar, netherlands, belgium and france
- roosevelt
- US president from 1932 until his death in 1944
- operation sea lion
- this was the name of the german invasion on britain aka the battle of britain
- patton
- famous army general who fought against the desert fox in north africa and the invasion of sicily and had his career anded bc he slapped a soldier
- beerhall putsch
- hitler and his nazis tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the weimar republic in 1921
- irwin rommel
- known as the "Dessert Fox"
- yamamoto
- Japanese Admiral who planned attack on Pearl Harbor
- moratorium
- to halt or stop something
- okinawa
- pacific battle that saw bloodiest fighting june 45
- blitzkrieg
- lightening-quick warfare
- spanish civil war
- this event was used as a testing ground for Hitler's armaments of war
- salassie
- Emperior of Ethiopia
- reparations
- war damages to be paid to countries that won war
- Lenin
- Communist dictator, advocated overthrow of all capitalist governments
- Stalin
- succeeded Lenin as dictator of Soviet Union
- churchill
- prime minister of great britain during WW2
- De Gaulle
- general of france and Later president of france who took the free france and fled to britain to exile
- Josef Stalin
- succeeded Lenin as Dictator of Russia (USSR)
- truman
- vice president under FDR who became Pres upon FDR's death and made the decision to drop the atomic bomb
- Hitler
- Called Brown shirts
- herman goering
- head of german luftwaffe
- Eisenhower
- 5 star, general of the army in europe and north africa and commander of D-Day invasion
- battle of leyte gulf
- this was the reconquet of the Philippunes by General MacArthur in Feb 1945
- allied powers
- what britain france russia and us were called during WW2
- 3rd reich
- name of hitlers government
- Francisco Franco
- Dictator of Spain
- WW2 begin
- september 1, 1939
- Victor Emmanuel 2
- King of Italy
- genocide
- deliberate annihilation of an entire people
- belligerant
- nations at war
- yoshikawa
- name of japanese spy who gave yamamoto all the info abt which ship were in pearl harbor, location of sub nets and best day to attack
- defacto
- diplomatic term that means one government recognizes that the other government is in change but its not the legally elected or inherited government
- rome-berlin-tokyo axis
- the triple agreement between rome berlin and tokyo. agreed that an attack against one was an attack against all
- dunkirk
- this was where the massive evacuation of france by the british in 1940 who used a multitude of small boats as german was closing in on ffrance
- holocaust
- the program of extermination/genocide of the jews carried out of Nazis, killed over 6 million jews
- Bataan Death march
- april 1942, Japanese take the Philippines and forced 70,00 survivors through the jungles as prisoners; over 22,00 died, brutal treatment by the Japanese
- afrika korps
- name of rommel's german forces in north africa
- selective service
- this established the draft