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WWII (And Its Aftermath)
WWII (And Its Aftermath)
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10th Grade
05/08/2017

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The Allies

 

 

The Allies were a group of united countries in both world wars.

Definition

Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union

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Anschluss



Anschluss is the name for Hitler's actions with Austria.



 

Definition

the name given to the events in which Hitler's Germany took control of

Austria in 1938

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Appeasement



 

Appeasement is basically giving your beliefs to one in order to keep the peace.




Definition

giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace

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Armistice 

 

 

Armistice is an worlwide agreement to stop the fighting but not fully end the war.

Definition
an agreement to stop fighting

 
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Aryans

 

 

Aryans was believed by Hitlers to be the most superior race.

Definition

someone from Northern Europe, especially someone with blond hair and blue eyes

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The Battle of Alamein



The Battle of Alamein was a battle in Egypt.

Definition

In Egypt, the British finally stopped the German advance during the long Battle. They then turned the tables on the Germans, driving the Axis forces back across Libya into Tunisia.

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Atlantic Charter



Atlantic Charter was a time when Roosevelt adn Churchil met.

Definition

Aug. 1941, Roosevelt & Churchill met on a warship in the Atlantic in which the 2 leaders set goals for the war (such as "the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny") and for the postwar world

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Battle of Midway

 

 

Battle of Midway was one of the battles lost by Japanese.

Definition

June 4-7, 1942 (6 months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor); The United States discovers Japan's intended trap at the Midway Atoll and instead the U.S. ambushes the Japanese and they suffer heavy losses and never really recover from this counter-attack

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Battle of Stalingrad

 

 

Battle of Stalingrad was the major battle between Germany and the Soviet Union.

 

 

 

Definition

a major tuning point in the Soviet Union, and one of the costliest of the war; In 1942, Hitler was determined to take Stalin's namesake city & Stalin was equally determined not to let it fall; the Soviets end up encircling their attackers and the Germans finally surrender in Jan. 1943

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Battle of the Bulge

 

 

Battle of the Bulge ended in January 1945.

Definition

Dec. 1944 - Jan 1945; Germany launches its last massive counterattack of WWII, and there were great losses on both sides; the U.S. suffers the most casualties here out of all the WWII battles: 19,000 dead: Germany holds off Allied advance for about 6 week but eventually loses their foothold[image]


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Berlin Blockade/Airlift



Berlin Blockade accured during the Cold War.

Definition

June 1948 - May 1949, during the Cold War, Stalin tries to completely control Berlin, even though it was occupied and divided by all 4 victorious Allies, by sealing off every railroad and highway into the Western sectors of the city. Western powers responded to the blockade by supplying West Berliners with food and fuel via cargo planes for more than a year - and the Soviets end their blockade but tensions between the countries grows deeper

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Big Three

 

 

The big three were not, in fact, Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.

Definition

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin


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Blitzkrieg



Blitzkrieg was also known as the lightening war.

Definition

"lightning war", where Hitler used improved tank & airpower technology to strike a devastating blow against the enemy

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Cold War

 

 

Cold War occured between the Soviet Union and the US.

Definition

this unfriendly relationship between the US and the Soviet Union after the Second World War

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The D-Day 

 

 

The D-Day was the invasion of France by the Allies.

Definition

June 6, 1944; Allies invade France; 176,000 troops land on the beaches of Normandy

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The Final Solution 

 

 

The final solution was the most cruel thing done by the Germans in the WWII.

Definition

Adolf Hitler's plan to remove Jewish people from Europe by killing them all

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Guernica

 

 

The attack on Guernica was the attack which later was painted by Pablo Picasso.

Definition

a town in the Basque area of northern Spain, which was destroyed by bombs dropped by German aircraft in 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.

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Hailee Selassie

 

 

Hailee Selassie was the emperor of Ethiopis who had ask help of the UN when Mussolini invaded Ethiopia.

Definition

 

the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, who is remembered especially for having modernized his country

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Munich Conference

 

 

Munich Conference was in September 1938.

Definition

Sept. 1938, British & French persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler

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Hiroshima

 

 

Hiroshima was one of the two Japanese cities that was bombed.

Definition

a city in Japan which was destroyed in 1945 during World War II, when a U.S. nuclear bomb was dropped on it, killing very many people

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Kamikaze Pilots

 

 

Kamikaze were the extremist pilots.

Definition

Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions, crashing their explosive-laden airplanes into American warships

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Reparations

 

 

After the WWI, Germany was forced to pay reparations. 

 

 

 

Definition

money paid by a defeated country after a war (ex. Germany), for all the deaths, damage etc it has caused

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Miracle of Dunkirk



Miracle of Dunkirk  was a helpful thing for the British troops.

Definition

British sent all available naval vessels, merchant ships, and fishing boats across the English Channel and despite German air attacks, the armada ferried more than 300,000 troops to safety in Britain; this heroic rescue raised British morale

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Nazi-Soviet Pact

 

 

Nazi-Soviet Pact was a nonagression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany.

Definition

publicly bound Hitler & Stalin to peaceful relations; but secretly the 2 agreed not to fight if the other went to war to divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between them

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NATO

 

 

NATO was organization between countries who were against Soviet Union in the Cold War.

Definition

North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a group of countries including the US and several European countries, which give military help to each other

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Pearl Harbor

 

 

Pearl Harbor was the attack on America's naval area by the Japanese.

Definition

an important US naval base in Hawaii, which was suddenly attacked by Japanese planes in December 1941. Many warships were destroyed or damaged, and this caused great shock and anger in the US, and made the US start fighting in World War II.

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Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis



Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis was the unity between Italy, Germany and Japan.

Definition

The Axis Powers; the 3 countries agreed to fight Soviet communism, and not to interfere with one another's for territorial expansion

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Treaty of Versailles (regards to Germany)



Hitler violated many points of the Treaty of Versailles. 

Definition

a peace agreement made in 1919 at Versailles in France, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, between Germany and the allies (=the countries that fought against Germany in the war, including France, Russia, the UK, and the US). According to the treaty, Germany lost some of its land and had to agree to pay large amounts of money to the allies for damage caused by the war. The treaty also established the League of Nations[image]


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League of Nations

 

 

League of Nations was the start of the United Nations.

Definition

an international organization that was established after World War I to encourage countries to work together and achieve international peace. It was replaced in 1946 by the United Nations

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Total War

 

 

Total war was a use of all possible resources into the war effort.

Definition

channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort

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Truman Doctrine

 

 

Truman Doctrine was another way of trying to stop the spread of communism.

Definition

United States policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism

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United Nations

 

 

The original idea of the United Nations was the League of Nations.

Definition

1st meeting in April 1945, 50 nations met to draft the charter for the UN; each member nation has 1 vote in the General Assembly; a smaller body, the Security Council has greater power and is made up of 5 permanent members: The U.S., Russia, Britain, France, and China; final ratification in Oct. 1945; currently 192 member countries

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V-E Day 

 

 

V-E Day was the European victory day of the WWII. 

Definition

Victory in Europe Day; May 8th 1945, the day on which victory in Europe in World War II was celebrated

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