By: Madelen Flores, Evany Gonzalez, and Emelie Quintero
World War Two Vocabulary
By Madelen Flores
Aircraft Carriers
ships transporting aircraft and accommodating the take off/landing of airplanes
Anschluss
union of Austria and Germany
Appeasement
giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Bataan Death March
American soldiers were forced to march along a 65 mile path. Most captives died during the march
Blitzkrieg
lightning war
Cold War
state of political and military tension between powers in the West and East
Concentration Camps
detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the state
D-day
June 6th, 1994, the day in which the Allies chose to invade France
Douglas MacArthur
General during WW2, leading the American forces toward Japan
Dwight Eisenhower
American General during 1942
Francisco Franco
conservative general that led a revolt in Spain
General Erwin Rommel
one of the most brilliant commanders sent to North Africa by Hitler
Hiroshima
City in Japan where American planes dropped an atomic bomb on August 6th, 1945
Holocaust
Genocide of Jews carried out by the Germans
Island Hopping
American navies attacked islands held by the Japanese, hoping to recapture them
Kamikaze
Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships
Lend-Lease Act
the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941
Luftwaffe
German air force
Manhattan Project
Code name for the US effort during WWII to produce the atomic bomb
Marshall Plan
American initiative to aid Western Europe in recovering. The US lent approximately 13 billion dollars
Nagasaki
City in Japan where American planes dropped an atomic bomb on August 8th, 1945
Nazi-Soviet Pact
An agreement between Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler to keep peaceful relations
Neutrality Acts
acts that helped maintain the neutrality of the US
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty signed in 1949.
Nuremberg
City in Germany where the Allies held the war crimes trials. Also where Hitler used to stage mass rallies
Pacifism
opposition to all war
Rosie the Riveter
symbol of the women taking their part during WW2
Stalingrad
City in the Soviet Union where the Battle of Stalingrad took place
Sudetenland
a region of western Czechoslovakia
Truman Doctrine
principle that the US will lend aid to countries threatened by soviet forces or communism
V-E Day
The day the war in Europe officially ended, May 8th, 1945
Vichy
capital of a puppet state in France set up by Germany
Warsaw Pact
Military alliance of communist nations in Eastern Europe
Yalta Conference
Meeting in which the ‘Big Three” (Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin) decided that they would wage war against Japan within three months of Germany’s surrender