Unit 12 test
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- Douglas McArthur
- General Commander of Allied forces on the island
- Franklin Roosevelt
- President of the US during WWII
- Hidei Tojo
- Chief of staff of Japans Kwantung army
- Adolf Hitler
- Leader of Germany during WWII. Sort of started the war. A powerful dictator. Wanted Germany to have All Power. Defeated countries, regained a lot of land from WWI. Wanted to unite all Germans and one master race. Created the Holocaust. Killed many people.
- Erwin Rommel
- General who led AfrikaCorps. The legendary Desert Fox
- Joseph Stalin
- Took control of Russia after Lenin died. Focused on creating a communist state. Established a totalitarian government by 1939. Control over all citizens.
- Harry Truman
- Became president after Roosevelt died.
- Winston Churchill
- Prime Minister of Britain during WWII
- Dwight Eisenhower
- General for America. Launched Operation Torch invasion onto European soil.
- Benito Mussolini
- leader of Italy in WWII created Fascist Party, Follows "Black Shirts"
- Nazi party
- Group of followers of Adolph Hitler nazism. German brand of fascism.
- Fascism
- Stressed nationalism and placed the interests of the state above those of individuals.
- Appeasement
- Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor.
- Nazi-Soviet Union non-Aggression Pact 1939
- Commitment never to attack each other.
- Holocaust
- The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jews.
- Axis Powers
- Germany, Italy and Japan signed a mutual defense treaty the Tripartite Pact.
- Allied powers
- United States, Britain
- Lend lease
- Lend and lease of weapons
- Pearl Harbor
- U.S. Naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japan, surprise in the pacific. Entering US into war--declaring war on Japan
- D-day
- June 6, 1944 allied invasion code named Operation Overlord. Parachuted down behind German lines. Largest land-sea-air operation in History.
- Operation Overlord
- Attack/invasion of Allied Nation on German lines
- Battle of the Bulge
- Dec 16, 8 German tank divisions broke through weak American defense a long an 80 mile front. Tanks drove 60 miles into Allied territory creating a bulge in the lines giving its name. Captured 120 American GIs near Malmedy. Lasted a month. Germans pushed back. Not much seemed to change.
- Miday
- Island west of Hawaii. Battle of Midway Allies succeed in stopping the Japanese. A turning point in the Pacific war. Soon Allies began "Island Hopping"
- Coral Sea
- Place where US and Australia stopped the Japanese. Drive toward Australia. Five day battle in the Coral Sea
- Genocide
- The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population. "Final solution" for Hitler in the Holocaust.