WWII Vocab

Rationing

• Limited or scarce resource during the war

• Detention center where Japanese Americans were moved

• Character developed to encourage women to take factory jobs

Internment Camps

• Limited or scarce resource during the war

• Detention center where Japanese Americans were moved

• Character developed to encourage women to take factory jobs

Rosie the Riveter

• Limited or scarce resource during the war

• Detention center where Japanese Americans were moved

• Character developed to encourage women to take factory jobs

Battle of Midway (June 1942)

• Turning point in Europe; allied troops land in Normandy France to free Europe

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

D-Day (June 6th 1944)

• Turning point in Europe; allied troops land in Normandy France to free Europe

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

Anti- Semitism

• A caucasian person of German descent regarded as racially superior

• To hold oneself “supreme” over others

• Discrimination or hatred of jews

• German Symbol for the Nazi Party

Aryan

• Stood for Aryan supremacy and a symbol for anti-semitism

• A caucasian person of German descent regarded as racially superior

• Discrimination or hatred of jews

• To hold oneself “supreme” over others

What is the Swastika?

• Detention center where Japanese Americans were moved

• Turning point in Europe; allied troops land in Normandy France to free Europe

• To hold oneself “supreme” over others

• German Symbol for the Nazi Party

German Dictator

• Adolf Hitler

• Benito Mussolini

• FDR

• Hideki Tojo

Italian Dictator

• Adolf Hitler

• Benito Mussolini

• FDR

• Winston Churchill