World War 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Totalitarianism | Is a political system in which the government controls every aspect of the citizens life. |
| Fascism | A political system in which the government or state is seen as more important than individuals |
| Appeasement | A policy of avoiding war with an aggressive nation by giving in to demands |
| Lend lease act | Allowing the president to aid any nation believed vital to US defense. |
| War Production Board | (WPB) to oversee the conversation of factories to war production. |
| Tuskegee Airmen | Were African American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama |
| Zoot-suit riots | : In Los Angles in June 1943, group of sailors attacked Mexican Mexican American wearing zoot suits. |
| Internment | Or forced relocation and imprisonment, of Japanese Americans |
| Battle of el alamien | The British troops stopped Afrika corps in July. |
| Battle of Stalingrad | (A major key turning point in the war.) Soviet Forces defeated Nazis forces after which the Nazis never recovered. |
| Dwight eisen hower | US. genral (led the battle of El Alamein) |
| D-day | 1944 allied powers attacked France. |
| Bataan Death March | More than 600 Americans and about 10,00 Filipinos died. Japan attacked Fillipino- American controlled fores but we could not win. |
| Battle of the Coral sea | : Nimitz sent allied forces to stop the Japanese fleet. American and Japanese aircraft carriers and fighter planes clashed in the battle of the coral sea)\ Neither side had clear victory. |
| Battle of Midway | Nimitz learned that the Japnese planed a surprise attack and he was prepared. It began on June 4, 1942 when Japanese started bombing the islands. |
| Island hopping | Where allied forces took only the most strategically important islands, instead of each Japan held island |
| Kamikaze | Purposely crashing piloted planes into enemy ships. |
| Battle of Leyte gulf | The largest naval battle in history. The allies crushed Japan's fleet, crippling Japan's naval power for the remainder of the war. |
| Battle of the Bulge | The Germans quickly push the Allied forces back about 65 miles creating a huge bulge in the Allied lines |
| Holocaust | In a program of mass murder that became known as the holocaust. Hitler and the Nazis had attempted to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe |
| Genocide | Extermination of an entire group of people |
| Manhattan Project | The secret program was a goal to develop an ATOMIC BOMB! A weapon that produces tremendous power by splitting atoms. |
| Axis powers | : Italy, Germany, and Japan |
| Allied Power | France, Great Britain, and America, and soviet union. |
| V-E day | Victory in Europe day |
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