WWII Essay - Leadership

Term	Definition
D-Day	Allies invaded mainlands of Europe, Normandy. This took months to prepare, June 6, 1944.
Dictator	Supreme power given to a leader of a country.
Allies	Committed to stopping Germany and Japan.
Jews	Targeted by the Nazis and blamed for all of Germany’s problems.
Holocaust	The Nazi’s murdered 6 million Jews and put them in death camps. (Genocide of the Jews)
Island Hopping	They would only attack key islands and skip over less important ones.
Axis Powers	Germany, Italy, and Japan
Rationing	To limit a certain amount of food, items, or goods because they were being used in the war.
Big Three	U.S. > Roosevelt, Great Britain > Churchill, and Soviet Union > Stalin
Inflation	Raising the price of goods.
Kristallnacht	Night the Nazi movement against Jews turned violent. (The Night of Broken Glass)
Patton	Best military general the U.S. ever had, he couldn’t keep his mouth shut. (Nickname: Old Blood and Guts)
Montgomery	Stopped Rommel’s advance, Britain's greatest general.
Poland	September 1, 1939, official start of WWII, It was when Nazis invaded Poland.
London	Constantly getting bombed by Nazis.
Hitler	Dictator of Nazis.
Rommel	Lead the German troops, best German General, he was defeated in Africa and Europe. (Nickname: Desert Fox)
Pearl Harbor	December 7, 1941, Dragged U.S. into WWII.
Chruchill	Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Mussolini	Killed by his own people, Italy’s Fascist party leader, Dictator in Europe.
Rhineland	Hitler marched there in 1936, nobody did anything, Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles.
Stalin	Leader of Soviet Union, ruthless and a psychopath.
Rooselvelt	President of the U.S. during WWII, he died just months before the end of WWII, served the longest in U.S history.
Stalingrad	TURNING POINT IN THE WAR, 5 month battle, Nazi’s advance had been stopped.
Truman	Vice President of the U.S., but became the President after FDR died. He was President during the end of WWII.
Hirohito	Emperor of Japan
France	Under German control in June, 1940.

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