WW2 vocab

Lend-Lease Act

• All African American air squadron that will distinguish themselves in combat during WWII
• Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.
• Allowed the US to give arms to countries (like Great Britain) vital to protecting the US.
• The nickname of women who worked in factories supporting the war effort

Battle of Britain

• American military base in Hawaii which was attacked by Japanese in WWII
• Battle of British and German air forces fought over Britain during 1940-1941
• Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944
• Trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against humanity, held in Nuremberg, Germany

Axis Powers

• Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
• American invasion to get a base near the coast of japan
• Allowed the US to give arms to countries (like Great Britain) vital to protecting the US.
• Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.

Allied Powers

• Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.
• A campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945)
• Allowed the US to give arms to countries (like Great Britain) vital to protecting the US.
• Forced Relocation of Japanese-Americans into prison camps during World War 2.

Blitzkrieg

• Allowed the US to give arms to countries (like Great Britain) vital to protecting the US.
• Nazi extermination camp in Poland, the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust.
• Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944
• "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939

Pearl Harbor

• American military base in Hawaii which was attacked by Japanese in WWII
• Nazi extermination camp in Poland, the largest center of mass murder during the Holocaust.
• American strategy of capturing selected islands in the Pacific in a steady path to Japan
• All African American air squadron that will distinguish themselves in combat during WWII

Manhattan Project

• Prejudice against Jews
• Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
• A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.
• A campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June 1945)

D-Day

• American strategy of capturing selected islands in the Pacific in a steady path to Japan
• The nickname of women who worked in factories supporting the war effort
• Trials of Nazi leaders charged with crimes against humanity, held in Nuremberg, Germany
• Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944

Stalingrad

• Governs the treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war
• British defeat Germans; turning point in North Africa.
• Brutal march of American and Filipino prisoners by Japanese soldiers in 1942
• Battle in which the Nazi advance east through Russia was halted.

El Alamein

• American strategy of capturing selected islands in the Pacific in a steady path to Japan
• Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
• British defeat Germans; turning point in North Africa.
• "Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939