WWII Vocab

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Rationing

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Limited or scarce resource during the war

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Internment Camps

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Detention center for Japanese Americans.

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Rosie the Riveter

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Character encouraging women to take factory jobs

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Battle of Midway (June 1942)

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Naval battle where the US beats Japan; Turns the tides of the war

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D-Day (June 6, 1944)

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Turning point in Europe; allied troops land in Normandy, France.

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Anti-Semitism

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Discrimination or hatred of Jews

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Aryan

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A caucasian person of German descent regarded as racially superior

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Swastika?

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German Symbol for the Nazi Party

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German Dictator

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Adolf Hitler

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Italian Dictator

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Benito Mussolini