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| Allies | WWII countries that fought with USA and Great Brtiain |
| Axis | WWII countries that fought with Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Holocaust | genocide(killing) committed against the Jewish people by Nazis |
| anti-Semitism | discrimination against Jewish people |
| genocide | wiping out an entire racial or cultural group |
| ghetto | restricted area of European cities that kept Jews separated from others |
| Kristallnacht | "night of broken glass", gangs of Nazis destroyed property of Jews |
| strategy | a plan of action |
| turning point | an event at which a significant event occurs |
| surrender | to officially accept defeat; give up |
| mobilization | operation or movement of resources for a war effort |
| draftee | those who are taken into military service; not volunteer |
| ration | to give out on limited basis |
| inflation | increasing prices when there is more money available than goods to buy |
| cost of living | amount of money necessary to live at a standard level |
| internment | relocation of Japanese Americans to camps in the United States |
| German | These troops marched into Poland in 1939 to start WWII |
| Attack of Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
| Japanese | Whose aircraft bombed U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor? |
| President Roosevelt's Quote | "Yesterday, December 7, 1941- a date which will live in infamy..." |
| Hitler | Chose to ignore agreement and invaded Soviet Union |
| D-Day | This invasion of France was the final push to defeat Germany; June 6, 1944 |
| V-E Day | Germany surrenders; "Victory in Europe" |
| "Final Solution" | Germany's goal to r get rid of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, those wt mental illness/disabilities |
| 12 million | Approximate number of people killed in the Holocaust |
| Jews | Largest group killed in the Holocaust (6 million) |
| Regain control of certain islands | First goal of U.S. in Pacific theater |
| General MacArthur | leader of land forces in the Pacific |
| Admiral Nimitz | Leader of navy forces in the Pacific |
| Destroy Japanese fleet | Second goal of US in the Pacific theater |
| Harry Truman | Became president when Roosevelt died suddenly |
| Manhattan Project | Secret group that worked to develop an atomic bomb |
| Hiroshima/Nagasaki | Destroyed by first two atomic bombs ever used in war |
| Navajo language | Used to create secret code that Japanese never broke |
| War Production Board | Job was to oversee the making of war goods. |
| Office of Price Administration | Job was to set prices on goods to keep inflation down. |
| Japanese Americans | Many were forced into interment camps during WW II |
| Island Hopping | US strategy in the Pacific |
| appeasement | policy of making concessions to an aggressive power to avoid conflict |
| Battle of Britain | aerial battle between German Luftwaffe, which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the RAF which successfully defended resistance |
| Battle of Stalingrad | German forces were defeated in their attempt to capture the city of Stalingrad |
| blitzkrieg | German "lightning warfare" |
| Bracero Program | US Govt recruited agricultural workers from Mexico |
| concentration camps | prison camps used by Nazis - prisoners were worked to death or starved |
| Nazi Soviet non-agression pact | Germany and Soviet Union promised not to attack each other and SECRETLY planned to divide Poland |
| The St Louis | German ocean liner with Jewish German refugees denied entry to US, returned to Europe, most passengers died under Nazis |
| Korematsu v US | US Supreme Court case - initial ruling upheld Executive Order 9066 relocating Japanese Americans to internment camps |
| Executive Order 9066 | Required Japanese Americans to report to and live in internment camps through WWII |
| Lend-Lease Act | allowed America to lend, lease or sell arms or supplies to nations considered "vital to the defense of the US" |
| Manhattan Project | code name for US nuclear weapon program |
| United Nations | international intergovernmental organization established in 1945 after WWII to prevent future conflicts |
