World War 2
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vocab terms from world war 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 totalitarianism | a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) |
| joseph stalin | Communist dictator of the Soviet Union "man of steel" |
| benito mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943). He led Italy to conquer Ethiopia (1935), joined Germany in the Axis pact (1936), and allied Italy with Germany in World War II. He was overthrown in 1943 when the Allies invaded Italy. |
| adolf hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945) |
| anti-semitic | To have hostility to Jews as individuals, to Judaism as a religion, to Jews as a group. |
| spanish civil war | A conflict form 1936 to 1939 that resulted in the installation of fascist dictator Francisco Franco as ruler of Spain; Franco's forces were backed by Germany and Italy, whereas the Soviet Union supported the opposing republican forces |
| anchluss | union of Austria and Germany (Hitler) - forced Austrian chancellor to appoint Nazis to cabinet posiitons, then sent troops; violated Versilles Treaty |
| munich pact | Signed in 1938 between Great Britain, Gemany, and France that gave part of Czechoslovakia to Germany; Chamberlain said it guaranteed "peace in our time" |
| blitzkrieg | "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 1939 |
| axis powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| allies | Group of nations, including the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, who opposed the Axis powers |
| winston churchill | A noted British statesman who led Britain throughout most of World War II and along with Roosevelt planned many allied campaigns. He predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West. |
| neutrality act 1939 | (FDR) European democracies might buy American war materials on a "cash-and-carry basis"; improved American moral and economic position |
| tripartite pact | Pact between Japan, Germany, and Italy signed in September 1940, by which each pledged to declare war on any nation that attacked any of them |
| lend-lease act | Approve by Congress in March 1941; The act allowed America to sell, lend or lease arms or other supplies to nations considered "vital to the defense of the United States." |
| atlantic charter | 1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war |
| hideki tojo | Prime minister of Japan during World War II |
| perl harbor | Dec. 7, 1941, Japan attacked this navy base and Dec. 8 President Roosevelt declares war |
| WAC | a member of the Women's Army Corp that was organized during World War II but is no longer a separate branch |
| douglass macarthur | American commander during the war against Japan; headed American occupation government of Japan after the War; commanded UN forces during the Korean War |
| bataan death march | April 1942, American soldiers were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps by their Japanese captors. It is called the Death March because so may of the prisoners died en route. |
| battle of the coral sea | a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942) |
| dwight eisenhower | United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany |
| george S patton,jr | An innovative tank commander who trapped Axis forces in a continually shrinking pocket in Tunisia. |
| saturation bombing | an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target |
| chester nimitz | United States admiral of the Pacific fleet during World War II who used aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese navy (1885-1966) |
| battle of midway | U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II. |
| a. philip randolph | Black leader, who threatens a march to end discrimination in the work place; Roosevelt gives in with companies that get federal grants. |
| exectutive order 8802 | WWII mesure that made shure that any job funded by the government gave equal hireing rights |
| bracero program | Wartime agreement between the United States and Mexico to import farm workers to meet a perceived manpower shortage; the agreement was in effect from 1941 to 1947. |
| internment | the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. We did it to Japanese-Americans in WWII because we thought they might be spies or something. |
| korematsu v. United States | 1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. It was not until 1988 that Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay $20,000 to each survivor. |
| 422nd regimental combat team | All of the Japaneese were translaters during the war in the Pacific and the all-Japaneese100th Battalion intigrated to the 422nd to be the most decorated unit in WWII. |
| rationing | a limited portion or allowance of food or goods; limitation of use |
| OWI | The Office of War Information, which was formed during World War II. This Office had a bureau for motion pictures and served as another layer of wartime regulation of images; the OWI proposed movies such as Bataan to promote wartime propaganda. *Represents the government's efforts to control mass media, especially during wartime period. |
| battle of the bulge | December, 1944-January, 1945 - After recapturing France, the Allied advance became stalled along the German border. In the winter of 1944, Germany staged a massive counterattack in Belgium and Luxembourg which pushed a 30 mile "bulge" into the Allied lines. The Allies stopped the German advance and threw them back across the Rhine with heavy losses. |
| harry s truman | Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb |
| kamikazi | the deliberate crashing of a bomb filled plane into a military target japanese ww2 |
| j.robert oppenheimer | leader of Manhattan project |
| war refugee board | Federal agency created in 1944 to try to help people threatened with murder by the Nazis |
| yalta conference | FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War |
| geneva convention | A set of international standards of conduct for treating prisoners of war, established in 1929 |
| GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| united nations | organization founded after World War II to promote international peace and cooperation. |
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