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Holocaust
The Shoah is another name for holocaust. There were about 6 million Jewish people that died during this event and Germany thought that they were the only superior race. -
Invasion of Poland
A type of warfare that is deployed on ground and air units involving fast and powerful attacks. (Blitzkrieg). Germans attacked within weeks of the war Polish army was taken down. Germany used 2,000 tanks and 1,000 planes to bring Poland to an end. -
Pearl Harbor
Its a harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu lacation of the US navy base that was attacked by Japan. The attack killed about 1,000 America saliors during the event. After the event happen it led the US to be apart of World War 2. -
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Pacific Theater
An area in the pacific where the US controled land where they had air and sea units. Pearl Harbor was one of the battles that happened in the pacific theater. It led the US to use their units to get back on Japan. -
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Internment
When President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 which was 120,000 Japanese people living in the US was stripped from their homes and ended up in internment camps. -
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Operation Overlord
Code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of Germany western Europe during World War II by Allied forces. -
Fat man & Little Boy
Two bombs that were dropped in Japan. Fat man was dropped in Hiroshima and Little Boy was dropped in Nagasaki. To get back on Japan for all the damage they did at Pearl Harbor. -
United Nations
International organization founded in 1945 and it was to make goals and settle problems between nation peacefully. -
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Nuremburg Trials
A trails against Nazi's because of the crimes that they commited during the war. April 13, 1943 there were over 4,400 bodies found in The Katyn Massacre. -
Zionism
A movement where Jews reestablished and developed protection in Israel. British forces moved Jews to Palestine and then the jews called that Israel.