World History Ch 26: World War II
Midway Island
A battle at which the US defeated the Japanese navy and established naval superiority in the Pacific
Hiroshima
City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945
Rhineland
Demilitarized region of west Germany
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi who was chief of the SS and the Gestapo and who oversaw the genocide of six million Jews
Dresden
German city ferociously firebombed by the Allies from February 13 to 15, 1945
Blitzkrieg
German for "lightning war," a swift and sudden military attack; used by the Germans during World War II
New Order
Japan's plan for control of Asian economies
Kamikaze
Japanese for "divine wind", a suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their airplanes into U.S. fighting ships at sea
Adolf Hitler
Leader of Germany during WW2
Benito Mussolini
Leader of Italy during WW2
Chiang Kai-shek
Nationalist leader of China during WW2
Auschwitz
Nazi extermination camp in Poland, the largest center (of 6 total) of mass murder during the Holocaust.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President of the US during Great Depression and World War II
Winston Churchill
The British prime minister who vowed "we shall never surrender," and led his people in resisting Germany
Holocaust
The mass slaughter of European Jews
Poland
This country was invaded by Germany which started WW2
Harry S. Truman
US President after Roosevelt who dropped the atomic bomb on Japan
Douglas MacArther
a WWII hero who was appointed by the allies to oversee occupation in japan
Stalingrad
a major industrial center on the Volga River that Hitler Wanted to attack
Collaborators
a person who assists the enemy
Isolationism
a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations
Sudentenland
a region of Czechoslovakia invaded by Hitler
Partisan
a resistance fighter in World War II
Demilitarized
elimination or prohibition of weapons, fortifications, and other military installations
Joesph Stalin
leader of Russia during WW2
Normandy
province of France where allies landed to counter attack Germany on D-Day
Sanctions
restrictions intended to enforce international law
Appeasement
satisfying reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability
Blitz
the British term for the German air raids on British cities and towns during World War II
London
the capital and largest city of England; bombed by German air force nightly in late 1940
Genocide
the deliberate mass murder or physical extinction of a particular racial, political, or cultural group
Occupation
the military force occupying a country or the policies carried out by it
Cold War
the period of political tension following World War II and ending with the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s
Mobilization
the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war
