1. Unit #12 World War Two and the Holocaust

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1) Appeasement: The idea that if you can meet another government’s demands you can avoid war.
2) Pearl Harbor: The location of the U.S. naval base that was bombed by the Japanese and directly led to U.S. involvement in World War Two.
3) Totalitarianism: Government that exercises control over the freedom, will, or thought of the citizens

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4) Lend-Lease Act: Act authorizing the US president to supply war materials to Great Britain on credit
5) Mobilization: The act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency.
6)Rationing: Government sponsored limits on the amount of certain goals that civilians could buy during wartime.
7) “Rosie the Riveter”: A cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.

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8) USSR: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics– the name communists gave Russia
9) Axis Powers: alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan
10) Allies: Great Britain, USA, and the USSR
11)Blitzkrieg: “Lightening War” that emphasized the use of speed and firepower to penetrate deep into the enemy’s territory.

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12) Island Hopping Campaign: American strategy in the Pacific campaign in WWII, calling for only certain Japanese islands to be captured while the rest were bypassed
13) Japanese Internment Camps: The rounding up and temporary imprisonment of Japanese-Americans who were suspected of sabotage after the Pearl Harbor attacks.
14) D-Day: The day the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France and began the land invasion of Europe.

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15) The Manhattan Project: The top secret, US funded project to develop an atomic bomb before the Axis Powers were able to do so.
16) Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Japanese cities that were bombed by the U.S. to end the war in the Pacific quickly and unconditionally

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17) “Final Solution”: Hitler’s program to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe.
18) Auschwitz: Infamous Nazi death camp in Poland.
19) Holocaust: The systematic elimination of European Jews by the Nazis. This resulted in the death of 6 million of Europe’s Jews.