unit 5 vocab by

dictator

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 03:46:14 UTC

a leader that has absolute control and usually rises to power after an economic hardship.

totalitarianism

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 03:47:17 UTC

someone who has total power over their citizens and fear is their weapon

fascism

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 03:48:37 UTC

emphasizes nationalism over everything even if that means violence.

communism

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 03:50:23 UTC

government controls us all and everyone is equal

benito mussolini

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 03:51:42 UTC

fascist for Italy who created a militant group and then took power for himself. he wanted to recreate the roman empire and worked closely with hitler.

adolf hitler

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 03:52:39 UTC

nazism in Germany who killed those that opposed him and thought that Germans were superior.

nazism

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 03:53:22 UTC

fascism but includes racism and the idea that germans are superior to every other race

mein kampf

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 03:54:28 UTC

a book written by hitler that stated germans were superior, Germany needed to expand, and blue eyed - blonde hair people were superior.

hideki tojo

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 03:56:14 UTC

militarist and semi dicator in Japan. He is responsible for the attack on pearl harbor and was prime minister under hirohito. he was hanged.

munich agreement

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 03:57:42 UTC

France and Britain agreed to let Hitler invade the sudetenland so that they could avoid warfare.

appeasement

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 03:58:30 UTC

when you give someone something to avoid a larger problem

non-aggression pact

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 03:59:23 UTC

stalin and hitler agreed to not invade each other for 100 years. Hitler goes back on it and they split poland. Poland is where it all starts.

blitzkreig

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 04:00:14 UTC

a quick/lightning war. allowed hitler to take over Europe in only months.

winston churchill

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 04:00:52 UTC

prime minister of england and declared war on germany was a good guy.

Charles de Gaulle

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:10:13 UTC

led the government of France in exile in Britain when Nazis took over france

neutrality act

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:11:04 UTC

united States prohibited the sale of weapons to any countries at war

lend - lease act

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:12:32 UTC

united States decided that they could lease supplies to any nation considered vital to America's defensee (our allies)

pearl harbor

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:13:45 UTC

december 7, 1941. Japan surprise attacked the US because we sold weapons to their enemy, China. on the island of Oahu. 1st time we were attacked on home soil

Japanese internment

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:14:53 UTC

americans thought that the Japanese were spies waiting for a signal to attack. So FDR put all the Japanese in internment camps for their safety and ours

propaganda

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:15:23 UTC

used to promote war fever especially to isolationists.

ration

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:16:20 UTC

to use less of something so that we can have more

battle of britain

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:18:36 UTC

constant bombing on london for 3 months. fought entirely by air defense. allies (uk) won because their air force was better. london is destroyed and Hitler is going to focus on the eastern front (USSR).

battle of stalingrad

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:20:43 UTC

hitler broke the non-aggression pact. winter set in and Germany did not have enough supplies. they burned all the cities. Russia won because they took winter to their advantage. hitlers men froze and starved. Germany's lead is shrinking

dday- normandy

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:22:53 UTC

largest war prep in history. allies needed to open 2 fronts - they need France back. Eisenhower created a fake arm as a distraction to Hitler. 10,000 paratroopers drop in the night before. 3 million men cross the English channel. allies control the French beaches after 1 week. allies won because Germany was not prepared for their numbers. within 1 month, France is liberated

battle of the bulge

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:25:12 UTC

germans were desperate to gain an advantage. Surprise attack on the allies in Belgium to create a builder in allies defense line. American lines were spread to thin so Germans were able to get through. Allies won because we had more men to replenish our forces; Germany did not. Germany lost so many men that Hitler couldn't replenish his army. They retreat to Berlin.

battle of midway

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:28:14 UTC

japan wanted to finish the job left undone at pearl harbor. usa first battle in ww2. japan tried another surprise attack but we broke their code and knew the plan. America won because we set up a trap and surprised japan with a back up fleet. japan could not keep up so they resorted to kamikazes.

battle of Iwo jima

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:30:03 UTC

americas air force needs an airbase closer to Japan's mainland so they start island hopping. First American attack on Japanese home soil. Japanese attack from underground tunnels and kamikazes. america won because Japan had nowhere to retreat and refused to surrender. America is now closer to mainland Japan. Japan moves to more ruthless tactics.

battle of okinawa

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:32:05 UTC

america needed to take the last island of Japan before we invade the mainland. Largest air, land, and sea invasion in the Pacific. Civilian suicide and kamikaze use intensified. America won because we lost less soldiers. all Japanese soldiers retreat to the mainland and now we have to decide to invade or drop the atomic bomb.

Dwight d eisenhower

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:34:58 UTC

he was the supreme allied commander in europe. He created the fake arm as a distraction to Hitler in the battle of dday.

V-E day

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:36:37 UTC

Victory in Europe. May 8, 1945 - Soviet victory

harry truman

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:37:21 UTC

takes over as president when FDR dies. he had no idea about the atomic bomb before he took office but he decided to drop it.

kamikaze

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:38:12 UTC

suicide missions that the Japanese did to try and stop the US.

island hopping

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:39:47 UTC

military strategy of taking over smaller, less armed islands before taking over the big heavily armed ones.

j Robert oppenheimer

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:41:32 UTC

he was a physicst that was responsible for creating the atomic bomb

manhattan project

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:42:43 UTC

started in 1942. it was a secret atomic bomb with Oppenheimer and Einstein as the leaders. It started when we found out Germany was working on one too

Hiroshima and nagasaki

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:44:12 UTC

locations 1 and 2 of the atomic bomb dropping. 70% of the city was instantly destroyed and many deaths.

V-J day

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:44:58 UTC

victory in Japan day. 4 months after European victory. one week after nagasaki

Nuremberg trials

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:46:00 UTC

captured Nazi leaders on trial for their crimes against humanity (war crimes)

holocaust

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:47:12 UTC

a genocide (a deliberate and systematic killing of a group of people) of the Jewish people living in Germany

kristallnacht

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:48:33 UTC

night of the broken glass. first aggressive action towards the Jews in Germany. Tried to get all the Jews to leave Germany. The deportation of Jewish doctors, writers, lawyers, and professors to camps.

ghettos

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:49:42 UTC

slums used to persecute, enslave, and terrorize the Jews before concentration camps. a way to get forced labor.

concentration camps

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:50:58 UTC

where the Jews were persecuted during the Holocaust. They were used for forced labor and mass executions.

axis powers

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:52:31 UTC

Germany, Italy, and Japan.

allied powers

jlar1945 — 2024-02-13 05:53:06 UTC

great Britain, united States, and soviet union.