WORLD WAR II
The Allies US Great Britain France Russia China
USA---FDR
Great Britain---Winston Churchill
France---Charles DeGaulle
Russia---Joseph Stalin
China---Chiang Kai-Shek
The Axis Germany Italy Japan
Germany---Adolf Hitler
Italy---Benito Mussolini
Japan---Hideki Tojo
Vocabulary Dictatorship--- Total control by one person or group. No personal freedoms Fascism--- A form of government that is extremely nationalistic. Property ownership is allowed but dissent is forbidden
Nazism--- Hitler’s brand of Fascism. Leader chooses the property owners. Includes nationalism that becomes racism Third Reich--- Hitler’s third empire supposed to last 1,000 years, lasted 12.
SS--- Hitler’s private army and bodyguards, greatly feared, operated the death camps. Gestapo--- German state secret police
ADD TO NOTES Isolationism--- Sealing off a country from the rest of the world ( not getting involved in world affairs). USA did this until Mein Kampf---Hitler’s book written in 1924 while in prison---details his plan for world domination
German occupation in Europe
With this paper, We will have peace in our time.
Appeasement Giving in to a Bully. Letting a country or person get away with something in the hopes it will stop.
Hitler and Stalin
Less than a year
German Military Terms Blitzkreig---Lightning War Wehrmacht---German Army Luftwaffe---German Airforce Dunkirk
DDay
Dday invasion was an amphibious assault into German occupied France intended to serve as a Springboard toward retaking France and moving on to Germany.
Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander of Forces in Europe.
MacArthur Commander of American Pacific forces
Nanking
Pearl Harbor
Bataan
Pacific theater v. Japan
ADD TO NOTES Island Hopping--- American strategy in the Pacific to create a flight path to the main island of Japan Kamikaze--- Last ditch effort of Japanese—turned planes into flying bombs. Suicide missions.
Atomic bomb Fat ManLittle Boy
Anti-Semitism Specific discrimination against the Jewish population
Genocide The attempt to eliminate an entire race of people
Internment Camp Camps set up by the United States to hold Japanese-Americans during war (driven by fear and distrust)