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Victory

In the end the Allies had won the war

Joseph Stalin

  • Leader of the USSR
  • "Man of Steel"
  • Killed anyone who opposed him
  • Industrialized the Soviet Union

Holocaust

  • Systematic murder of 6 million Jews and others
  • Most notable instance of genocide
  • Were sent to concentration camps
  • Many killed in gas chambers or from starvation, disease and exhaustion

Adolf Hitler

  • Leader of Nazi Germany
  • Born April 20, 1889
  • Died April 30, 1945
  • Married to Eva Braun

Mussolini, Benito

Quicksilver

  • Operation by the Allies
  • Gave Germany false information on an invasion of Pas-De-Calais
  • Helped Allies invade Normandy
  • Prime Minister of Italy during WWII
  • Lead the National Fascist Party
  • In power from 1922-1943

Kurematsu v. U.S.

  • Supreme Court case
  • Decided whether Japanese internment camps were Constitutional
  • Ruled that they were

Flying Fortress

  • B-17 Airplane
  • Made by the U.S.
  • A heavy bomber
  • Boeing was the manufacturer

Blitzkrieg

Winston Churchill

  • Fighting style
  • Used by Germany
  • Means "Lightning War"
  • Attacking swiftly and with full force to breach enemy lines

Imperial Japan

  • Prime Minister of Great Britian from 1940-1945 and 1951-1955
  • First person to be made an honorary citizen of the U.S.
  • Won Noble Prize in Literature

U-Boats

  • Part of Axis Powers
  • Ruled by Hideki Tojo
  • Always expanding its empire
  • Existed 1868-1947
  • German military submarines
  • Mostly used to enforce a naval blockade against enemy shipping
  • They had torpedos, mines and guns

Neutrality Acts

  • Passed by Congress
  • Meant to keep the U.S. out of war
  • Repealed after Pearl Harbor
  • Helped Isolationism in U.S.

Pearl Harbor

  • December 7, 1941
  • Japanese attack on Hawaiian Naval Base
  • Led to U.S. entering the war
  • 2,403 Americans were killed

George S. Patton Jr.

  • General during WWII
  • Known for his hard driving personality
  • Advanced his army into Germany at the end of the war

Civilian Morale

Eugenics

XX Committee

When Great Britian's cities were bombed by the Germans, the citizens kept their spirits up and carried on despite the horrors, helping Britian fight the war.

  • Belief and practice of improving the genetics of the population
  • Nazis wanted to improve the Aryan race
  • Also stopped "undesiriables" from reproducing
  • Also known as Double Cross System
  • Around 20 Nazi agents were captured and used to give false information to their controlling officers

Yakovlev 3

Zeppelin

Operation Overlord

  • Soviet aircraft used for dogfighting
  • 4,848 were built
  • One of the smallest and lightest aircrafts in the war
  • Code name for Battle of Normandy
  • Allies invaded German occupied western Europe
  • A successful operation
  • Type of rigid airship
  • Used by Germans for some scouting missions
  • Mainly passenger ships before the war

Schutzstaffeln

Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Five-star General during WWII
  • Elected President in 1951
  • Organized D-Day, invasion of France & Germany

Tuskegee Airmen

  • Also known as the SS
  • Hitler's top officers
  • Responsible for Holocaust
  • Judged as a criminal organization
  • African American military fighter pilots during WWII
  • First African American pilots to join the military
  • Active from 1940-1952

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  • 32nd President of United States
  • Helped U.S. out of Great Depression and in WWII
  • Married Eleanor Roosevelt

Luftwaffe

  • German airforce during WWII
  • Active 1939-1946
  • Very instrumental in German victories with the Blitzkrieg
  • 119,871 aircrafts
  • 3,400,000 personnel

World War II Alphabet

Taryn O'Neill

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