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Joseph Stalin
USSR
He became primer after lenin died
Had non aggression pact with hitler at beginning of war
Holocaust
Hitler and Nazis murdered 6 million jews
Created new laws for jews
Jews forced into ghettos and concentration camps
1933-1945
Winston Churchill
British politician
Outraged by appeasement
Agreed to attack japan after pearl harbor
Totalitarianism
Government controls citizens lives
Italy and germany
Response to global depression
Genocide
Murder of entire people
Nazis against jews in holocaust
Concentration camps
Battle of Midway
June 3 to the 6th
Northwest of hawaii
Allies won
Stopped japanese forces in pacific
Benito Mussolini
He overthrew the king of italy in 1922
Hes from italy
Conquered ethiopia
Adolf Hitler
Hes from germany
hes a dictator and a fascist leader
Became german chancellor and formed third reich
Iwo Jima
1945 battle
22000 japanese died
Allied us troops won
Fascism
One person leading the government
Mussolini was a fascist
fascists hate communists
Nazis
Members of hitlers national socialist party
They banned jews and non nazis From government positions
Demolished jewish businesses and synagogues on kristallnacht
Kamikaze
Planes found there targets off the island of okinawa
They caused heavy damage to allied ships and killed nearly 5,000 allied sailors
Planes that flew into allied ships
Suicide attacks
They used this strategy late in the battle of leyte gulf because they were losing and desperte
Translates to devine win
Non-aggression pact
Soviet union and germany sign an agreement
1939
They can not attack each other they decide to split poland
Hitler broke pact in 1941 and attacked Soviets
A. Philip Randolph
African american labor leader
Planned washington march against racial discrimination
Canceled march because FEPC
Robert Oppenheimer
scientist
Part of Manhattan Project
helped create atomic bomb
War Production Board
Supervised conversion of factories to wartime production
Banned production of cars in 1942
Focus on military vehicles and equipment
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps
Women working in armed forces 300,000
Worked in factories
Built planes
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Cities in japan
Destroyed by atomic bombs
Bombings led to japan surrender in WWII
Treaty of Versailles
Hitler violated treaty
One of causes of WWII
Made hitler able to take over germany
G.I. Bill
Money for soldiers to go to school
Buisness and home loans
Serviceman readjustment act
Nuremberg trials
1945
War crime trials held in germany against nazis
Found many leaders and lower officials guilty and 12 sentenced to death
Neville Chamberlain
Prime minister of united kingdom
Declared war against germany in 1939
Resigned in 1940
Battle of the Bulge
There were 77,000 casualties
The germans lost 80,000 men
This was the largest battle for US in WWII
December 1944 janurary 1945
It took 4 months for this battle to be over
Manhattan Project
Allied scientist project to develop atomic bomb
Cost 2 billion dollars
Employed 600,000 people
Douglas MacArthur
He was also a general of the filopines
President roosevelt made him go to australia
Battled Japanese on new guinea
Helped take back filopines