World War 2
World War 2
V-J Day
Victory of Japan Aug. 14, 1945
V-E Day
Victory in Europe
WW2 ends
May 8, 1945
Holocaust
Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany in 1930’s and 1940’s
Six million Jews died in concentration camps
Battle of Midway
US Navy engaged Japanese Imperial Fleet in most decisive naval battle of WW2
US victory was turning point in war in Pacific
Japanese Navy aid and waste
Appeasement
Policy of giving in to an aggressor’s demands in order to keep peace
Battle of Bulge
Thousands of Allied troops mortally wounded to secure final victory
Germans staged last major offenses against Allies
Blitzkrieg
Lightening war
1st bomb then move in with tanks and troops like against Poland
Hiroshima
1st Japanese city US dropped bomb
Nagasaki
2nd Japanese city US dropped a bomb
Anti-Semitism
Prejudice, against Jews
Allies
Britain, France, Russia, USA
Totalitarianism
The government has total control of a persons life, dicatorship
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan formed Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis
Had agreements for Alliance cleared way of anti-democratic aggressor powers
“Mein Kampf”
A book by Hitler of his obsessions
Became basic book of Nazi goals and ideology
Concentration Camps
Detention center for civilians who are considered enemies of a country
Pearl Harbor
General Tojo ordered surprise attack on American fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
US declared war on Japan
1942, 2,403 died
Partition
Dividing and sparation
Lend-Lease Act
It allowed FDR to sell or lend war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense to US
Lebensraum
Living space for German Race
Kamikaze
Japanese pilots who under took suicide missions crashing their explosive-laden airplanes into American Warships
Ribbentrop- Molotov Pact
German- Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
To divide Poland
Atomic Bomb
Nagasaki and Hiroshima got A Bombed
Japanese cities
Americans set bomb
Yalta Agreement
Feb. 1945
Churchill, FDR, Stalin met in SU discussed post war
Potsdam Agreement
Agree on policy for occupation and reconstruction of Germany and other nations
FDR
Pres. US WW2
(32) pres. of US
Joseph Stalin
Dictator of Russia during WW2
Fought Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Leader of Nazi
Wrote Mein Kampf
Dictator of Germany
Tried to eliminate Jews
Tried to take over Europe
Winston Churchill
Prime minister of Great Britain during WW2
Benito Mussolini
Dictator of Italy- WW2
“IL Duce”
Eisenhower
Allied Commander during WW2
What was Europe's position towards Hitler's aggression?
Europe didn’t want another war they gave into Hitler appeasement
How did Fascism take shape in Italy?
Mussolini- dictator came to power governed due to poor leadership, high unemployment, high taxes, promoted nationalism
Who were the major players on the global stage?
Axis- Germany, Japan, Italy, France, US, Great Britain
Allies- Russia
How Nazism took place in Germany?
Hitler promoted Nationalism poor leadership and bad economic condition and resentment to treaty of Vers.
What was the attitude of US before US hit of Pearl Harbor?
The US wanted to stay out of the war policy
isolationism
Some major battles of WW2?
D-dayBattle of BulgeBattle of MidwayVJ DayVE Day
Why were casualties so high?
Weapons more advanced
Planes dropped bombs, A-bomb, tanks, aircraft carriers, subs
Causes of WW2?
Germany invades Poland
Economic Depression
Militarism, Nationalism, Imperialism
Germany angry over Treaty of Vers.
What were the Questions the US had to ask to dropping the A-bomb?
Should US bomb city to save many US soldiers lives to end the war?