1. WORLD WAR II

2. The Allies US Great Britain France Russia China

3. USA---FDR

4. Great Britain---Winston Churchill

5. France---Charles DeGaulle

6. Russia---Joseph Stalin

7. China---Chiang Kai-Shek

8. The Axis Germany Italy Japan

9. Germany---Adolf Hitler

10. Italy---Benito Mussolini

11. Japan---Hideki Tojo

12. 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

13. 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.

14. SS--- Hitler’s private army and bodyguards, greatly feared, operated the death camps. Gestapo--- German state secret police

15. ADD TO NOTES Isolationism--- Sealing off a country from the rest of the world ( not getting involved in world affairs). USA did this until 1941. Mein Kampf---Hitler’s book written in 1924 while in prison---details his plan for world domination

16. German occupation in Europe

17. With this paper, We will have peace in our time.

18. Appeasement Giving in to a Bully. Letting a country or person get away with something in the hopes it will stop.

19. Hitler and Stalin

20. Less than a year

21. German Military Terms Blitzkreig---Lightning War Wehrmacht---German Army Luftwaffe---German Airforce Dunkirk

22. DDay

25. Dday invasion was an amphibious assault into German occupied France intended to serve as a Springboard toward retaking France and moving on to Germany.

26. Eisenhower Supreme Allied Commander of Forces in Europe.

27. MacArthur Commander of American Pacific forces

28. Nanking

32. Pearl Harbor

35. Bataan

38. Pacific theater v. Japan

39. 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.

40. Atomic bomb Fat ManLittle Boy

45. Anti-Semitism Specific discrimination against the Jewish population

46. Genocide The attempt to eliminate an entire race of people

47. Internment Camp Camps set up by the United States to hold Japanese-Americans during war (driven by fear and distrust)