WORLD WAR II

The Allies

• US

• Great Britain

• France

• Russia

• China

USA---FDR

Great Britain---Winston Churchill

France---Charles DeGaulle

Russia---Joseph Stalin

China---Chiang Kai-Shek

The Axis

• Germany

• Italy

• Japan

Germany---Adolf Hitler

Italy---Benito Mussolini

Japan---Hideki Tojo

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

• 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.

• SS--- Hitler’s private army and bodyguards, greatly feared, operated the death camps.

• Gestapo--- German state secret police

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

German occupation in Europe

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

Appeasement

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

Hitler and Stalin

Less than a year

German Military TermsBlitzkreig---Lightning WarWehrmacht---German ArmyLuftwaffe---German Airforce

Dunkirk

DDay

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

Eisenhower

• Supreme Allied Commander of Forces in Europe.

MacArthur

• Commander of American Pacific forces

Nanking

Pearl Harbor

Bataan

Pacific theater v. Japan

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.

Atomic bomb

Fat Man Little Boy

Anti-Semitism

• Specific discrimination against the Jewish population

Genocide

• The attempt to eliminate an entire race of people

Internment Camp

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