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WWII

1939-1945

"Germany will either be a world power, or not be at all." --Hitler "Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart." -- Anna Frank

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__Links:__
[|Adolf Hitler] This website gives you the history of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was a great power during WWII. He was the leader of Germany and to many he was known as Fuhrer which means leader. [|Anne Frank]This link is the biography of Anne Frank. Anne Frank was a Dutch Holocaust victim durign WWII. During this time, her and her family had to spend two years in hiding. [|Bismarck]This website talks about the Bismarck. The Bismarck was a German battleship that was thought to be unsinkable. However, on May 26, 1941, the Bismarck had been sunk. [|Benito Mussolini]This link talks about the life of Benito Mussolini. Adolf Hitler had been impressed by Mussolini's achievements and once he gained his power in Germany he wanted to form a close relationship with Italy. In October 1936 Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler signed a non-military alliance. [|Pearl Harbor] Pearl Harbor occured on Sunday December 7, 1941. This website talks abut this event when the Japanese made a surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet. [|Holocaust] This link talks about the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the mass destruction of Jewish people during WWII by Nazi Germany. During this event, 6 million European Jews were killed. [|D-Day] This website gives you information about the greatest amphibious force in history. D-Day took place on June 6,1944. This invasion was when the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. [|V-J Day]This link talks about the victory in Japan, also known as V-J Day. V-J Day took place September 2, 1945. On this day, Japan surrenders. [|Munich Conference] This website gives you information about the Munich Conference that was held on September 29, 1938. This conference was held to settle the Czech problem. [|Anschluss] This link talks about the Anschluss, which was the union with Austria. On March 13, 1938, Germany and Austria united forces.

Terms:
 * Danzig-This is a key port on the Baltic Sea, the Treaty of Versailles took if away from Germany, England and France threatened war if Germany invaded Poland
 * Vichy France- This was the southern part of France, France was divided into two parts by the Germans, the Germans owned the Northern part of France
 * Scorched Earth- This was a technique used by the Soviets when they were being defeated, this is when they destroy fields and supplies by burning them on their retreat so that the enemy cannot use them
 * Pearl Harbor-this took place on Sunday Dec. 7, 1941, this was a Japanese surprise attack on US Pacific Fleet in Hawaii, Admiral Yamamoto was the mastermind of Pearl Harbor
 * D-day- this means De-embarkation, and was a Operation Overlord, they invaded France, this is the greatest amphibious force in history, the boats were Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, Sword
 * Potsdam Conference- this took place July 1945, and was a meeting where FDR, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the invasion of Japan and the use of the Atomic bomb
 * Guadalcanal- this was the first invasion of a Japanese held territory, it was a bloody jungle fight, the main goal of this invasion was to capture Japanese airfields
 * Kamikaze- this was a tactic used by the Japanese where a pilot would crash his plane in to a ship, this was the first time it was used and it hit 279 US ships
 * Atomic Bomb- the Manhattan Project was the code name for the building of the A-bomb, the first test took place on July 16,1945, the bomb equaled 20,000 tons of TNT
 * Blitzkrieg- or “lightning war,” used armored columns, called panzer divisions, supported by airplanes, each panzer division had about three hundred tanks
 * Demilitarized- this was used during the treaty of Versailles, and meant that Germany was not permitted to have weapons or fortifications there and France had the right to use force
 * Sanctions- these are restrictions intended to enforce international law, unless Japan withdrew from the area to its borders of 1931
 * Appeasement- this policy was based on the belief that if European states satisfied the reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers
 * Sudetenland- this is an area in northwestern Czechoslovakia that was inhabited largely by Germans that Hitler was willing to start a world war to obtain this land
 * Concentration camps- these are extermination centers, where Jews and people that didn’t believe in Hitler were sent, in these camps they would kill them in horrible ways such as gas chambers

People:
 * 1) Adolf Hitler- he was a Austrian born German politician and the leader of the Nazi party, he was also a veteran of World War 1 and his main goal was to make one superior race
 * 2) Winston Churchill- He was the Prime Minister of England, he said “We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be: fight on the beaches, hills, and landing grounds. We shall never surrender.
 * 3) Chiang Kai-shek- He was the President of Republic of China, he joins forces with Chinese Communists to fight Japanese
 * 4) Admiral Yamamoto- he was the Mastermind behind the bombing of Pearl Harbor which was a surprise attack on US Pacific Fleet
 * 5) Erwin Rommel- He was the Field Marshal and called “The Desert Fox”, He was the Commander of North African Forces
 * 6) Marshal Peitro Badoglio- he becomes the Premier of Italy when Mussolini resigns on July 24, 1944, with him Italy became the first Axis nation to surrender
 * 7) Dwight D. Eisenhower- he was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe he said, “Soldiers, sailors, airmen, the eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and wishes of all Freedom loving people are with you.” He was extremely good at giving enthusiastic speeches
 * 8) Henry Truman- He became president after FDR was assonated, he decided to drop the A-Bomb on Hiroshima for three reasons one to save lives, two end war quickly, and three to show USA nuclear capability
 * 9) Oskar Schindler- He wrote a list called the Schindler List that had a list of Jewish people on it, and with these names he took them in and had them work in his factories to save them
 * 10) Anne Frank- she was a young Dutch holocaust victim that hid in the back of a shop for 2 years, her story was taken from a journal she kept with her and now has spread all over the world