World War II

  • Blitzkreig

    The German's invaded Poland one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Which was that Germany wouldn't ally with Japan
  • Shoah

    The Holocaust is also known as Shoah, but Shoah is the term preferred by the Jewish community. There was many ways that they killed the Jews.
  • Battle of the Atlantic

    Air raids.German's flying over England. Hitler could not use the Blitzkreig stratigy.
  • Battle of Stalingrad

    Hitler kept using Blitzkreig to take more and more of Europe.
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    Internment

    The U.S. governement ordered Japanese people in America to go into internment camps because they couldn't be trusted while they were in war with Japan.
  • Theater of War

    An area of land, air, and sea that involved military events or may become involved in war operations. Attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941.
  • Pearl Harbor

    A lagoon harbor on Oahu to the West of Honolulu; location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on Dec 7th, 1941. It offcially put us in the war.
  • Operation Overlord

    "Operation Overlord" was the code name for the attack on Battle of Normandy on the day of D-Day. When U.S. soldiers landed on the beach of Normandy.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    After operation overlord the allies kept advancing, but as they advance they ended up with a bulge at the line. Allies in the end, end up defeating the German's.
  • Fat man

    Fat man was a bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima and killed about 66,000 people.
  • Little boy

    LIttle boy was a bomb that was dropped in Nagasaki and killed estimated about 40,000 people.
  • The United Nations

    An international organization founded in 1945 whose goal is a settle problems between nations peacefully. – United States, France, United Kingdom, Russia, China, and Court.
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    Nuremburg Trials

    The trials against Nazis because of their war crimes. Held by Allied forces after World War II.
  • Zionism

    A movement in the early 1900s that reestablished and developed a protection on a Jewish nation in Israel. The Creation of Israel