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| Fascism | Political movement in both Italy and Spain during WWII, characterized by imperialism and nationalism - NOT COMMUNIST |
| Benito Mussolini | Leader of Fascist Italy and the Fascist Movement in Italy |
| Nazism - Nazi Party | Political movement - ideology of the Nazi party - NOT COMMUNISTS |
| National Socialist Party | Name of the Nazi Party |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of Nazi Party and Chancellor of Germany, started WWII with the invasion of Poland, was responsible for the Holocaust |
| Regime | Period of Rule, the government during a specific time |
| Third Reich | German government under Hitler - means the 3rd Empire |
| Second Reich | German government after WWI and Before Hitler's government - Weimar Republic |
| Fuhrer | another term for leader - term Hilter used |
| Scapegoats | someone who is blamed for all the problem that take place - Hitler used the Jewish people as scapegoats |
| Demilitarized | to remove troops from an area |
| Appeasement | to give into an aggressor to prevent war - Munich Pact - one cause of WWII |
| Munich Conference | Conference where Hitler was given part of Czech in an effort to prevent futher aggression - example of appreasement |
| Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis | Alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan, its members later became known as the Axis Powers - the names used were the names of each counrties capital |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightening Warfare - method used by Germany |
| Winston Churchill | Prime minister of Great Britain after Neville Chamberlain, during WWII and at the end of the War |
| Nuremberg Laws | Restrictive laws which applied to Jewish people under Nazi Germany |
| "The Night of Broken Glass" | Nov. 9, 1938 violence against Jews and Jewish settlements all over the Third Reich, also known as Kristallnacht |
| Attack of Pearl Harbor | Act of aggression that lead to the US entering WWII and declaring war on Japan - December 7, 1941 - a Naval base in Hawaii was attacked |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) | President of the United States at the beginning of WWII |
| "D-Day" | June 6, 1944 - sea invasion by Allied troops of Normandy begins |
| Declaration of the United Nations | Resulted from the treaty that ended WWII - an internationsl peace keeping organization |
| A-Bomb | Atomic Bomb dropped on Japan that took many lives and brought an end to WWII on the Pacific Theatre |
| Pacific Theater | Site of fighting in the Pacific Ocean between Allied forces and Japan |
| European Theater | Site of fighting in the Europe between Allied forces and Axis forces |
| Island Hopping | War strategy used by the allied (US) forces in the Pacific front to win back islands taken by Japan in WWII |
| The Big Three at Yalta | Stalin - USSR (Russia); Churchill - Great Britain; Roosevelt - USA - decided how to divide reclaimed territory at the end of WWII |
| Yalta Conference | Conferences held during WWII by the allied powers to plan strategy and finally make decisions after the war ended |
| Satellite Nations | Countries liberated by USSR (Russia) during WWII that came under the Communist influence of the USSR |
| Nuremberg Trials | trials of war criminals after WWII - ensured that no one could use the defense of "just following orders" in referring to their actions in a war |
| Holocaust | terms that refers to the mass destruction of the Jewish people by Nazi Germany |
| Nationalism | strong feeling of pride and loyalty to one's country - one of the causes of WWI & WWII |
| Imperialism | the control of one area, nation or region by another - one of the causes of WWI & WWII |
| Worldwide Depression | One of the causes of WWII - downturn in the economy in the entire world caused by the stock market crash of 1929 in the US - high unemployment & inflation |
| Alliance System | One of the causes of WWII - system of mutual assistance where nations would go to the aid of the other members in the alliance if they were attacked in war - Axis Powers and the Allied Powers |
| Failure of the League of Nations | One of the causes of WWII - the league of nations did not act to prevent Germany's aggressive acts that led to WWII - it was weak due the fact that US and USSR had not joined and Grt. Britain & France were war torn |
| V-J Day | Victory in Japan - the war ended with Japan - Aug. 15, 1945 |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe - the war ended with Germany - May 8, 1945 |
| Auschwitz | one the most infamous of the Nazi death Camps |
| Axis | refers to the Axis Powers - Germany, Italy and Japan alliance |
| Capitalism | economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for a profit |
| collective security | another way of saying an alliance system - joining together countries felt they were more safe from attack |
| DeGaulle | President of France during WWII |
| dictatorship | form of government where one person or party holds all the power and controls all aspects of the lives of the people |
| economic depression | downturn in the economy - stock market crash - price rise, wages decrease, unemployment is high |
| Eisenhower | during WWII he was in command of the US troops in the European theatre - later became the Pres. Of the US |
| Guadalcanal | the first defeat of the Japanese on land by the Allied forces |
| Hiroshima | city in Japan that the US dropped the first Atomic bomb on |
| inflation | the great increase in the amount of paper money in relation to the available good for sale, this situation leads to rising prices. |
| isolationism | policy of separation from others, not wanting to get involved with other counrties affairs |
| Iwo Jima | the bloodiest Marine Battle in the history at the time, it was the island Mid-way between the US naval bases and Japan - US victorious after 25 days of fighting - flag was raised on Iwo Jima |
| Kamikaze | Japanese pilot who takes on a suicide mission |
| Luftwaffe | Germany airforce |
| MacArthur | led the US forces in the Pacific |
| Midway Island | the site of the battle that became the turning point in the Pacific theatre |
| Nagasaki | city in Japan that the US dropped the second Atomic bomb on, caused the Emperor to surrender |
| Okinawa | last island battle for the US troops |
| Patton | General led the attack on Europe from Italy |
| Rome | Capital of Italy |
| socialism | a system in which the people as a whole, rather than private individuals own all property and operate all businesses |
| Stalin | Leader of USSR (Russia) from 1924-1954 - During WWII - attended the Yalta Conference |
| Stalingrad | city in USSR where the Germans surrendered to the Russians |
| Tojo | leader of Japan |
| totalitarian | a government where all aspects of the citizens lives are controlled by that government |
| Truman | Pres. Of the US at the end WWII - he was responsible to having the A-Bomb dropped |
| Bataan Death March | foreced march of US (allied) POW's by their captures where many were beaten and killed along the way |
| Yamamoto | Japanese commander of the Japanese fleet |
