WWII Vocabulary

Nationalism

• A feeling of extreme loyalty to your country,
• To the point of believing it is better than any
• Other country.

Fascism

• An organization of  society in which the lives of the people
• Are controlled by a supreme dictator, and the people are not
• Allowed to disagree with that dictator.

Totalitarianism

• The political idea that citizens should be subject
• To an absolute government authority.

Nazi Party

• National Socialist German Workers' Party
• Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
• A group of fascists that believe in the superiority of
• The Arian race.

Neutrality Act

• Acts passed by U.S. Congress in the 1930s to prevent
• The U.S. from becoming entangled in foreign conflicts.

Appeasement

• Making concessions (political or material) to an
• An enemy in order to avoid a conflict.

Blitzkrieg

• Violent unexpected offensive from air and ground
• In a closely coordinated attack.

Non-aggression Pact

• A treaty between two governments to avoid
• Armed conflict and resolve issues non-violently.

Holocaust

• A massive event of slaughter and destuction.

Genocide

• When an entire race, species, or ethnic group
• Is wiped from existence completely by unnatural
• Methods.

Concentration Camp

• A place where people are detained without rights
• Or normal reason, under harsh conditions.

Axis powers

• The nations during WWII which fought against
• The Allied forces (the western world). They all
• Hated communism, the west, and the U.S.S.R.

Allied powers

• The countries that opposed the Axis powers in
• WWII (against Germany, Italy, etc.).

Kamikaze

• Japanese Suicide Bombers in WWII
• "wind of god"

Adolf Hitler

• Adolf Hitler was a German politician born in Austria
• Who became the leader of the Nazi Party and the
• Dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

Winston Churchill

• Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL,
• FRS, RA, was the United Kingdom's Prime Minister from 1940
• To 1945, and again from 1951 to 1955.

Joseph Stalin

• Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin Was the dictator of the
• USSR from 1929 to 1953. He turned the USSR
• Into a superpower of industrial and military strength.
• He "ruled by terror" (History.com)

Pearl Harbour

• Is on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It was (and still
• Is) a United States Naval Base. On 7 December 1941
• The Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbour,
• Which led to the United States entering the war.

D-Day

• 6 June 1944 the Allies invaded Normandy, France, with
• Over 160,000 troops, and began Operation Overload.
• This gave the Allied forces their first real foothold in
• Nazi-occupied Western-Europe.

Hiroshima

• 6 August 1945 the world's first atomic bomb
• Was dropped on Hiroshima, a Japanese city,
• By an American B-29 bomber, killing 80,000
• People immediately, and tens of thousands
• Later of radiation poisoning.