World War II Vocabulary

Anschluss

union of Austra snd Germany

V - E Day

victory in Europe day, May 8, 1945

Battle of Stalingrad

WWII battle between German forces and the Soviet defenders for control of Stalingrad

Winston Chruchill

a Britsh Prime Minister who was against appeasement and who led Britain thoigh WWII

Blitzkrieg

a German word meaing "lightening war"

Nuremberg

a city in southern Germany where Hitler staged Nazi rallies and she Nazi war crimes trial were held after WWII

Vichy

a city in the center of France

Nagasaki

a costal city in Japan on an island where the second atomic bomb was dropped

Dwight Eisenhower

24th president of the US and was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII

Douglas MacArthur

American general who commanded the US troops in the Southwest Pacific and administered Japan after the war ended

Big Three

Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin; the three key allied leaders

Luftwaffe

German Air Force

General Erwin Rommel

German General duringg WWII who commanded the Afrika Korps and was nicknamed the Desert Fox due to his leadership

Neutrality Acts

a series of acts passed by Congress that aimed to keep thr US from being involved in the wat

Aircraft Carrier

a ship that accommodates thr taking off and landing of airplanes and transport aircraft

Lend - Lease Act

act passed by the US Congress that allowed for the US to sell or lease war supplies to any country whose defense was considered vital to the US

Nazi - Soviet Pact

agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in which the two nations decided not to fight and divide up the land

Island Hopping

allied strategy of recapturing some Japanese held islands while bypassing others

Manhattan Project

code mane for the project to build the first atomic bomb

D - Day

code name for the day that Allied forces invaded France

Concentration Camps

detention sites creaed or military purposes to terrorize and kill civilians

Holocaust

genocide of about 6 milion European Jews by the Nazi

Appeasement

giving in to aggressive demands in order to avoid war

Axis Powers

group of counties led by Germany, Itsly, and Japan thst fought thr Allies in WWII

Yalta Conference

meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin where the three leaders made agreements regarding the end of WWII

Hiroshima

mid sized city in Japan where the first atomic bomb was dropped

Rosie the Riveter

name for women who worked in the

Stalingrad

now Volgograd, a city southwest of Russia where the Battle of Stalingrad took place

Pacifism

oppsition to war

Sanctions

penalites imposed bu one country on another county to try to force a change in policy

Sudetenland

region if western Czechoslovakia

Bataan Death March

the forced march of Filipino and American prisoners of war under the brutal conditions by the Japanese military