WWII Vocabulary

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"Night of the Broken Glass" that signaled the start of the Holocaust.

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Kristallnacht

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Policy of giving in to an aggressive power in order to avoid war

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Appeasement

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Agreement between US and UK (and China and other allies) to lend weapons for the war in return for leases on naval bases

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Lend-Lease Act

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1939, Nazi Germany and Soviet Union agreed to not fight each other for the next 10 years.

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Non Aggression Pact

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US strategy to defeat Japan by building airbases and defenses on islands in the Pacific.

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Island Hopping

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Code name of allied invasion of Nazi controlled Europe on June 6, 1944. Largest seaborn invasion in history

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D-Day

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Nickname given to women in the workforce in America during WWII

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Rosie the Riveter

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Top secret unit of Native Americans used by the US in the Pacific because their language could not be translated and was never broken by Japan

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Navajo Code Talkers

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Issued by FDR for moving Japanese Americans on the West Coast into internment camps for the duration of the war

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Executive Order 9066

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Code name for top secret building of an atomic bomb to be used in WWII against Japan on Hiroshima & Nagasaki

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Manhattan Project