World War 2 1939- 1945

Vocabulary Totalitarianism Socialism Communism Nazism/ fascism Blitzkrieg Kamikaze SS Allies Axis Appeasement Holocaust Neutrality Island hopping People to know Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler Vladimir Lenin Mao Zedong Franklin D. Roosevelt Josef Stalin Neville Chamberlin Mussolini Tojo

2 sides Allies Axis England France America Belgium Poland China Soviet Union Germany Japan Italy Soviet Union

Causes Characteristics and Effects

start All the effects from WWI Treaty of Versailles Reparations Great Depression Rise of Dictators Redrawing of world Map Appeasement- Neville Chamberlin of England let Hitler slowly take over Europe to avoid a war until… Hitler invaded Poland

European Theater Invasion of Poland- start of WW2 Blitzkrieg- nightly air attacks of England by Germany Stalin grad- invasion of Russia D-day- beginning of the end -Holocaust- extermination of minorities living in Europe by Hitler and the SS

Pacific theater Pearl Harbor December 7 1941, Japanese sneak attack on U.S. navy base Island Hopping- moving from Island to Island Midway- Turning point of WW2 in Pacific Iwo Jima- Bloodiest battle of WW2 Hiroshima and Nagasaki- cities we dropped A-bomb on

Home Front Internment Camps Rationing Women back to work

Atrocities of the War Holocaust Genocide of many nomadic cultures and others of Europe and Asians Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah Witnesses, communists, homosexuals in Europe by Hitler and SS Chinese, Koreans, and islanders by Japanese and unit731 American interned Japanesse Americans for security purposes

Effects Nuremberg Trials European map divided East and West United Nations Cold War