Unit 7 World War II
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- Appeasement
- policy of Western European states accepting Hitler's demands if they seemed reasonable to maintain peace.
- Blitzkrieg
- offensive war tactic known as "lightning war"
- Isolationism
- policy of neutrality that separates a country from being involved with external political affairs, specifically WWII.
- Lebensraum
- a theory that superior nations have the right of living space through expansion.
- Kamikaze
- Japanese suicide pilots
- Genocide
- the deliberate killing or removal of a large group of people especially those of a specific ethnic group
- Auschwitz
- the largest Nazi death camp in WWII
- Nuremberg Trials
- Trials of Nazi leaders after WWII for committing war crimes.
- D-Day
- June 6, 1944 - Over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.
- Holocaust
- A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.
- sanctions
- restrictions intended to enforce international law
- demilitarized
- an area with all military weapons or fortifications removed
- Final Solution
- Heinrich Himmler's plan of committing genocide of European Jews.
- Atrocity
- an extremely wicked or cruel act, usually of physical violence
- Internment camp
- a prison camp to hold enemy aliens or prisoners of war.
- Winston Churchill
- Britain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- The 32nd president of the United States. He was President from 1933 until his death in 1945 during both the Great Depression and World War II.
- Douglas MacArthur
- United States general who commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II, (1880-1964), he accepted Japan's surrender in 1945.
- Dwight Eisenhower
- US General of the Allied forces in Europe during WWII and commander of the DDay invasion.
- Nazi-Soviet Pact
- agreement between Hitler and Stalin that said they would both invade Poland and not attack one another