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Axis Powers
Germany
Japan
Italy
Great Depression
dictator
Axis Powers
Allies
Nazi
propaganda
Allied Powers ---should we
add more?
Great Britain
Soviet Union
France
United States
A global economic crisis in the 1930s
A ruler who has total control
Germany, Italy, & Japan’s alliance
France, Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States alliance
a member of the National Socialist German Workers' party who
believed in the supremacy of Hitler as Führer and the supremacy of
the German people as a dominant world power. Nazis were antiSemitists (prejudice against Jews). The party was officially put to an
end in 1945 at the conclusion of World War II.
A form of communication meant to influence the attitude or beliefs
of people
Holocaust
The attempt by the Nazi government during World War II to
eliminate Europe’s Jews
Auschwitz
Germany’s largest concentration camp (death camp) located in
Poland (1.1 million people were killed here)
D-Day
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Britain
Aryans
genocide
atomic bomb
Cold War
superpowers
Berlin Wall
NATO
The day on which the Allied forces invaded France (June 6, 1944),
dealing a serious blow to the Axis
the site of a surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. naval base in
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (December 7, 1941)
A series of attacks on British cities and military targets by the
German airforce. British air force, known as RAF (Royal Air Force)
put up a great defense, and it was Germany’s first major failure in
WWII
A race of people who the Nazis felt represented an ideal and “pure”
race of the Nordic descent (blond hair, blue eyes, tall stature)
The purposeful destruction (killing off) of a racial, ethnic, or
religious group
The usual name for a nuclear weapon that uses nuclear fission for its
source of energy
A period of intense rivalry between the United States and Soviet
Union
Strong or influential countries
The wall separating East and West Berlin. East Germany was
communist and allied with the Soviet Union, while West Germany
was democratic and allied with the United States. Germany's capital,
Berlin, fell within East Germany's borders, so the city was torn
between the two sides. The Berlin Wall was built by the East Germans
to keep its citizens from going to West Berlin.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization – in 1949, the US joined with
other western nations to create this new alliance in order to protect
eachother if attacked. In response, the Soviet Union created the…
WARSAW PACT
Warsaw Pact
Iron Curtain
arms race
Marshall Plan
The Soviet Union started the Warsaw Pact in response to the creation
of NATO. The Warsaw Pact was an agreement between communist
countries in Europe.
The “Iron Curtain” symbolized the fighting and physical boundary
separating two areas of Europe – the west side (NATO countries) vs.
the east side (the Warsaw Pact countries). Also separated by the
Berlin Wall.
A competition between countries to build superior weapons
Known as the European Recovery Program, the Marshall Plan
was a United States plan for reconstruction of Europe after
World War II.