WWII Vocabulary

Appeasement

• the process or act of appeasing

World War 2

• a gloval war that lasted from 1939to 194

Alies

• the allies included Britain, France, The soviet union and the united states

Axis powers

• the nations that fought in WWII against the allied powers

Pearl Harbor

• a surprise military strike by the imperial japanese navy against the united states.

Iwo Jima

• major battle, the us marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the japanese imperial army.

D-Day

• on June,6th,1944, allied forces invaded northern france by means of beach landings in normandy

VE Day

• May, 8th marking allied victory in europe

VJ Day

• August 15th,in 1945 on which japan ceased fighting in World War1

holocaust

• August,15th on japan which ceased fighting in the world

Concentration camps

• a place where large numbers of people even prisoners or members of persecuted minorites

Concentration camps

• a place where large numbers of people even prisoners or members of persecuted minorites

Atomic bomb

• A bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nucle

Hiroshima

• American airplane dropped the first atomic bomb ever use in history/warfare

Nagasaki

• devastated by the second atomic bomb

Frankin D Roosevelt

• 32nd president of the united states elected four times instituted new deal to counter the great depression

Joseph Stalin

• Russian leader who succeeded lenin as head of the communist party and created a totalitarian state

Winston Churchill

• English political leader and author of the twentieth century

HiroHito

• Emperor from japan born in 1926 and died in 1989

Harry Truman

• Elected as vice president under FDR and became president when FDR died

Benito Mussolini

• the fascist prime minister

Adolf Hitler

• German Nazi dictator during WWII

Rosie the riveter

• A cultural icon of the united states representing the american women who worked in factories and shipyards during WWII

Rosie the riveter

• A cultural icon of the united states representing the american women who worked in factories and shipyards during WWII

Tuskegee Airmen

• A popular name for African American military pilots

United Nations

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