World+War+II

World War II 1939-1945 " I saw them at Munich, they were little worms ! "- Adolf Hitler media type="custom" key="12221226" media type="custom" key="12468166" media type="custom" key="15409308" __Terms __ __People __
 * demilitarized-eliminate or prohibit weapons, fortifications, and other military installations
 * appeasement- satisfying demands of diassatisfied powersin an effort to maintain peace and stability
 * blitzkrieg- German for "Lighting War" a swift and sudden military attack; used bythe Germans during World War II
 * partisans- a resistance fighter in World War II
 * genocide- the deliberate mass muder of a particular racial, political or cultural group
 * collaborators- a person who assists the enemy
 * mobilization- the process of assembling troops and supplies ans making them ready for war
 * kamikaze-Japanese for "divine war" a suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their airplanes into U.S fighting ships at sea
 * cold war - the period of political tension following World War II and ending with the fall of communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s
 * sanctions- a restriction intented to enforce international law
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Adolf Hitler- he believed that germans belonged to a so called Aryan race that was superior to all other races and nationalities
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Henrich Himmler- he was the man incharge, for Hitler, of the Concentration Camps or known as death camps
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Winston Churchill- he was a great Britains wartime leader, he advocated a hard-line policy towards Nazi Germany in the 1930's. On May 10, 1940 he became the British Prime mInister.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Reinhard Heydrich- he was head of the SS Security Service and was given the task od administering the Final Solution
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Rudolf Hoss- he was the comanding officer at the Auschwitz death camp
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Paul Tibbets- he was the pilot of the Enola Gay, the American Airplane that carried the bomb, known as "littleBoy"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Admiral Yamamoto- he was the known as the master mind of the surprize attack on the U.S Pacific fleet (Pearl Harbor) on Sunday December 7, 1941
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Anne Frank- Her and her family hid for two years in a family friends builing, they were hidden behind a book case for 2 years until they were later found and taken to concentration camps.Anne died of typhus, but her father survived and published her diary in 1947.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Osker Schindler- he was a German industrialist that saved Jews working in factories.

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 * [[image:worldhistoryprojectmaddiehannah/flag.jpg width="307" height="203" caption="One of the most famous world war II pictures"]] [[image:pearl_habor.jpg width="270" height="222" caption="Pearl Habor"]] [[image:map_ii.jpg width="354" height="243" caption="World War II Europe Map"]] [[image:churchill.jpg width="263" height="268" caption="Winstion Churchill"]]