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World War II Vocabulary
WWII Vocab
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9th Grade
03/01/2011

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Non-Aggression Pact
Definition
An agreement between nations where they will not attack one another.
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Blitzkrieg
Definition
Lightening Attack, fast attack
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Radar
Definition
New Technology that detected the presence of air traffic.
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Enigma
Definition
New Technology of the German's used to code and decode messages.
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Neutrality Acts
Definition
Legal status of a country that decides not to choose sides in a war.
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Scorched Earth Strategy
Definition
Military strategy that destroys everything they come in contact with as they pass through an area.
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Holocaust
Definition
Mass slaughter of Jewish people by the Germans during World War II.
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Kristallnacht
Definition
"Night of Broken Glass," Troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues
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Refugees
Definition
A person who leaves his/her country to find safety.
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Ghettos
Definition
City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live
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Tuskegee Airmen
Definition
America's first black military airmen who fought in World War II.
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Gestapo
Definition
The secret state police in Nazi Germany, noted for its brutal methods of interrogation
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(Hitler's) Final Solution
Definition
A program of genocide to protect racial purity, the Nazis had to eliminate "sub human" races.
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Genocide
Definition
The systematic killing of an entire people
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Extermination
Definition
To get rid of by destroying; destroy totally
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D-Day
Definition
June 6, 1944, the day of the invasion of Western Europe by Allied forces in world War II. The day of planned attack.
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Kamikazes
Definition
A member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target, especially a warship.
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Manhattan Project
Definition
The code name for the effort to develop atomic bombs for the United States during World War II.
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Nuremberg Trials
Definition
Trials of Nazi leaders conducted after World War II.
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Aryan Race
Definition
Hitler's perfect race of tall, white, blonde haired, and blue eyed people.
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Forced Labor (Concentration) Camps
Definition
a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of jews and for the confinement and persecution of prisoners.
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Allied Powers
Definition
United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union
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Axis Powers
Definition
Germany, Italy, Japan
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Anti-Semitism
Definition
Discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.
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Schutzstaffel (SS)
Definition
an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force. Abbreviation: SS
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