WW2 Key Terms

Nationalism

• When you put all of your devotion into your country

Totalitarianism

• When the government has full control of its people 

Nazi Party

• The political party in Germany during the 1930's

Appeasement

• Giving other nations what they want when they are aggressive

Blitzkrieg

• Hitlers views and style of war 

Holocaust

• The killing of Jews during WW 2 

Pearl Harbor

• Japanese fighter planes attacked the American Naval base near Hawaii. 

Nagasaki

• Second of the atomic bombs was dropped on the little island near Japan. 

Hiroshima

• First of two islands where we dropped atomic bombs on Japan. 

Genocide

• The hopefullness of taking out an entire race of humans

Fascism

• A country that's government promote nationalism. 

Concentration Camp

• A place where Jews were sent by the Nazi to become slaves and die. 

Axis Powers

• Where countries are joined together ie Japan, Italy and Germany 

Allied Powers

• France, Great Britian, and Russia and the US are considered allies. 

VE Day

• The day that everybody was waiting for Germany surrendered. 

Kamikaze

• This was the name of the suicide bombers in World War two. 

Stalingrad

• Was the big day for the Russians for the battles between them and Germany. 

D-Day

• The invasion that took over France by the Nazi party in 1944 

Adolf Hitler

• The man behind killing jews and the ring leader of Germany and the Nazi's 

Winston Churchill

• During World War two he was the prime ministar of Englad 

Comparison of Allied Powers and Axis powers

• Allied powers were Japan, Italy and Germany 
• Axis powers were France, Britain, Russia and the USA 
• They are the same as in they are all countries. But they are different in t
• there views on the government