WW2 Padlet by Kripa Thapa

Dictator

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A leader that has absolute control.

Totalitarianism

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Governments which have TOTAL, firm, and complete control of their citizens

Fascism

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Emphasizes nationalism over everything.

Benito Mussolini

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Fascist dictator of Italy.

Joseph Stalin

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Communism dictator of the USSR

Communism

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When everyone gets equal share of everything from the government. It fails in practice because it allows easy corruption.

Adolf Hitler

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Nazi dictator of Germany

Nazism

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A strong discrimination against those who aren't of Aryian race.

Mein Kompf

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Hitler's book that states his beliefs.

Hideki Tojo

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Military leader of Japan

Munich Agreement

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an agreement between Britain, France, Germany, and Italy which states the Sudetenland was ceded to Nazi Germany.

Appeasement

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Giving another party something as a bargain for them to stop.

Non-aggression pact

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A pact between Hitler and Stalin stating that they won't attack each other.

Blitzkrieg

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Hitler's main war technique of air to land attack where he also attacked civilians.

Winston Churchill

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UK prime minister

Charles de Gaulle

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Led the free French into resistance

Neutrality Act

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A series of acts passed by the US Congress in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 in response to the growing threats and wars that led to World War II.

Lend-Lease Act

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Stated that the U.S. government could lend or lease (rather than sell) war supplies to any nation deemed vital to the defense of the United States.

Axis Powers

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Italy, Germany, and Japan.

Allied Powers

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UK, USSR, France, USA

Pearl Harbor

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Japan's attack on the US on Dec. 7th 1941

Japanese Internment

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The forced relocation by the U.S. government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during World War II.

Propaganda

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Used to give people an opinion on the war and actions they should take.

Ration

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A fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage.

Battle of Britain

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A series of air battles fought over Britain, in which the RAF successfully resisted raids by the numerically superior German air force.

Battle of Stalingrad

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Long and bitterly fought battle of the Second World War, in which the German advance into the Soviet Union was turned back at Stalingrad.

D-Day

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The day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.

battle of the Bulge

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German counteroffensive in the Ardennes aimed at preventing an Allied invasion of Germany.

V-E Day

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The day of victory in Europe for the Allies in World War II

Harry S. Truman

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President during WW2 that sent the atomic bomb.

Battle of Midway

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Fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan ’s first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots.

Kamikaze

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Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.

Island-Hopping

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Conquering on island at a time.

Battle at Iwo Jima

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The United States mounted an amphibious invasion of the island of Iwo Jima as part of its Pacific campaign against Japan.

Battle of Okinawa

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The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II, and one of the bloodiest. The Navy’s Fifth Fleet and more than 180,000 U.S. Army and Marine Corps troops descended on the Pacific island of Okinawa for a final push towards Japan.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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He was director of the laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during the development of the first atom bomb.

Manhattan Project

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The code name for the American project set up in 1942 to develop an atom bomb.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

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The 2 places that the atomic bombs hit.

V-J Day

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Victory Over Japan Day

Nuremberg Trials

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When Nazi leaders and soldiers were tried for their crimes against humanity.

Holocaust

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The mass extermination and genocide of non-Aryan people.

Kristallnacht

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The occasion of concerted violence by Nazis throughout Germany and Austria against Jewish people and their property.

Ghettos

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Where Jewish people were forced to live.

Concentration Camps

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A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.