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20th century- WW2 final vocabulary

Terms in this set (19)

Axis Powers
Germany, Japan, Italy
Allied powers
United States, Britain, France, Russia
Totalitarianism
A form of government that completely controls the people's lives
Isolationism
A form of national policy that refrains from relations with other countries
Interventionism
The policy of intervening (getting involved) in affairs of another sovereign state.
Kristallnacht
A night where the Nazis attacked Jewish people and destroyed their property
Cash & Carry (Neutrality Act of 1939)
Banned US ships from carrying goods or passengers to belligerent ports but allowed US sales of munitions on a "cash-and carry" basis.
Lend-Lease Act
The program under which the United States of America supplied many of the allied nations with vast amounts of war material
Blitzkrieg
an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory
Manhattan Project
the code name for the American project set up in 1942 to develop an atom bomb
V-J Day
the day (August 15) in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day (September 2) when Japan formally surrendered
V-E day
the day (may 8) marking the allied victory in Europe in 1945
Kamikazes
a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.
Island Hopping
travel from one island to another
Appeasement
making someone less mad by accepting their demands
Final Solution
extermination of the European Jews
Auschwitz
One of the main concentration camps. Most people were sent here to die.
Theresienstadt
concentration camp/ghetto
Little Boy & Fat man
Atomic Bombs that the US drop of Japan.
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