1. World War II Vocabulary Front Load Mrs. Tucker World History Victor Valley High School

2. Vocabulary Chapter 16 Nonaggression Pact Blitzkrieg Battle of Britain Atlantic Charter Battle of Midway Battle of Guadalcanal Aryan Kristallnacht Final Solution Battle of Stalingrad D Day Nuremberg Trials

3. Nonaggression Pact Hitler and Stalin’s 10 Year agreement Never To attack each other charter/agreementDisagreement

4. Blitzkrieg Using fast-moving planes And tanks followed up by Massive infantry forces To surprise and overwhelm The enemy “Lightening War”Trench Warfare

5. Battle of Britain German air blitz on Britain, mostly Londoners from October, 1940 – May, 1941; Constant Bombing raids Occasional attacks on Britain

6. Atlantic Charter Declaration between Roosevelt and Churchill- It upheld free trade among Nations & the right of all people to choose their government; Pact/AgreementNot a Pact

7. Battle of Midway Air battle between US And Japan in the Pacific, Which the US won and Turned the tide of the war; Air/Sea Battle in PacificLand Attack

8. Battle of Guadalcanal 6 month long battle for Island that was bloody With extreme loss of life; Land Battle for IslandNaval/Air Battle

9. Aryan Nazi proposed new racial Order that Germanic people Were a “Master Race.” Germanic People Different Ethnicities

10. Kristallnacht Start of Holocaust - November 9, 1938, “Night of Broken Glass” Where Nazi storm troopers Attacked Jewish homes, Businesses, killing 100 Jews; Specific attack on JewsWWII Battle

11. Final Solution Hitler’s plan of genocide To systematically kill all Jews; Jewish ExterminationRandom killings

12. Battle of Stalingrad German siege on the Russian city of Stalingrad That resulted in large Losses & a turn in war Winter SiegeQuick victory

13. D Day Allied invasion on the Coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944; Sea and land invasionBombing raids only

14. Nuremberg Trials Coalition of military Tribunal to try Nazi war Criminals in 1945-46; Trial of war criminals;Ignoring war crimes